We didn't report on his expulsion from the Evangelical Council for
Financial Accountability over oversight and financial transparency
concerns. We didn't report on the International Mission Board of the
Southern Baptist Convention taking the unprecedented step of issuing a
vote of no confidence in his ministry, or of the Assemblies of God
leadership similarly criticizing his work. We haven't followed up on
reports that his orphanage ministry spends more on jet fuel for Paul's
plane than on actual orphans, nor that he has taken credit for other
people's work. We have no plans to report his recent claims
that the Republican Party is delaying the Second Coming of Christ and
that the Iraq war is "genocide." Quite honestly, we haven't covered him
because there are many self-promotional ministers out there with grossly
exaggerated claims, outrageous statements, and problematic finances.
Paul has had more success in getting himself into The New Yorker and other publications, but getting such clips seems to be his ministry's real focus. So why give him more attention?
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