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A former professor of Brite Divinity School in Fort Worth, Texas, has been arrested for alleged possession of child pornography and remains jailed. Charles Bellinger, 62, was taken into custody on Oct. 2, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported. He remains in the Tarrant County Jail on Thursday waiting for a bond to be set. Internet Crimes Against Children Unit detectives, Texas Christian University (TCU) police, and United States Secret Service special agents searched Bellinger’s house in Arlington and at his university office on campus, the newspaper reported. By Thursday afternoon, Bellinger’s name and biography had been removed from the school’s...

Additional details are becoming known concerning the adultery and recent disqualification of former Trinity Bible Church pastor Steve Lawson. According to inside sources speaking to Protestia on condition of anonymity, the fixture in conservative, reformed evangelicalism was “living a double life in the heart of the reformed community.” The young woman Lawson developed an “inappropriate relationship” with is an alumnus of The Master’s University (TMU). However, the two did not meet because of Lawson’s role as head of the Doctor of Ministry program at The Master’s Seminary (TMS, which resides inside Grace Community Church, 17 miles south of the university),...