#megachurch

Robert Morris, Texas megachurch pastor, is released from jail after 6 months for child sex abuse

The founder of a Texas megachurch pleaded guilty to sexually abusing a child in the 1980s.

March 31, 2026, 1:44 PM MST / Source: The Associated Press

By The Associated Press

OKLAHOMA CITY — The founder of a Texas megachurch who pleaded guilty to sexually abusing a child in the 1980s was released Tuesday after serving six months in an Oklahoma jail.

Animal Kingdom 'Forgive Us Our Trespasses'

I am going to lean heavily on the work of the great team at the Hartford Institute for Religion Research - they are the real clearing house for this kind of data and collecting and organizing it is yeoman’s work. They house all their information about megachurches at this website - where they define a megachurch as, “2000 or more persons in attendance at weekly worship, counting adults and children at all locations.” So you can quibble with them all you want. It’s a completely arbitrary number but I think that we can all agree - two thousand people is a whole lot of folks gathering on a weekend.

forgive the screen recording, tiktok wouldnt let me save this

but like

this is my childhood church

I went here from ages 4-10