A View from Inside Eddie Long's Sunday Service
At 7 AM, the parking lot was already filling up for the first service
of the day, which would start promptly at 8 at New Birth
Missionary Baptist, home of embattled pastor Bishop Eddie Long. Inside,
the atmosphere was cheerful. People bustled around talking about the
usual Sunday things; what they would do after church, where they
might have lunch. No one seemed to be talking about the elephant in the
room: what Bishop Long might say about the lawsuits alleging that he
coerced young men in his congregation to have sex with him...