Church of Christ pastor charged with indecency

[Ian David]

I'm not sure if this is part of The UNITED Church of Christ, or if "Church of Christ" is another denomination. If this is a UCC member, it would be one of a very rare handful of Progressive/Liberal church pastors charged with such a crime.

Update: It looks like a member of the Pentecostal "Assembly of God" churches.
http://www.truthmagazine.com/truthdir/locchurch.aspx?stateAbbr=TX


Black Collar Crime
Church of Christ pastor charged with indecency
FROM STAFF REPORTS
Saturday, January 12, 2008

A pastor at the Greggton Church of Christ on Marshall Avenue was jailed Thursday after admitting to molesting a relative, according to a report by the Longview Police Department.

Charles Thomas Hogland, 58, of Longview told police he inappropriately touched the girl at least six separate times, according to the report. He has been charged with indecency with a child by contact, a second-degree felony, and was released from jail about 2 p.m. Friday on $25,000 bond.

Hogland was interviewed by a Longview police detective Thursday after the relative he molested made an "outcry," according to the police report. Hogland told the detective that each incident happened in the church parsonage, where he and his wife reside, according to the report. Hogland is the only pastor at Greggton Church of Christ, which has a congregation of about 50, he said.

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Hogland said he and the elders will see what action the congregation wants to take.

More:
http://www.news-journal.com/hp/content/news/stories/2008/01/12/01122008_pastor_arrested.html?imw=Y

[Olney Blue]

1. I hope the girl is OK.

:cry:

[Ian David]

3. Unfortunately, I am sure she's not.

They're pretty much never OK, especially when it's done by someone in a church.

What usually happens is the church turns on the victim.

[regnaD kciN]

2. The (non-United) Church of Christ is a conservative fundy denomination...

...heavily based in Texas. It has no connection to the United Church of Christ (formerly known as the Congregationalists), which is a progressive denomination that originated in pre-Revolutionary War New England.

[Jane Austin]

4. When you say "Church of Christ" in Texas

you're talking about a very fundy offshoot of the Disciples of Christ church, aka the "Christian Church". I think they split off about 100 years ago.

They don't dance and don't use musical instruments in church.

When I was growing up in East Texas, the only thing on the radio in the morning when I was getting ready for school was a Church of Christ preacher railing against everything, but most especially against anything Catholic, especially the local Roman Catholic priest.

Well, there was one other thing on in the morning: Pappy Lee O'Daniel and his Lightcrust Dough-boys.

No, really!

O'Daniel had been Governor of Texas once, and defeated LBJ for the US Senate when LBJ first ran. He didn't run for reelection and thought Brown vs Board of Education was a Communist Conspiracy.

So in the early morning hours of an East Texas morning, I got a double -dose of RW fundy propaganda.

And that was before school started!

[Ian David]

5. Ah, that makes sense then. I kind of figured it was a fundie-church. They almost always are. n/t

[Olney Blue]

6. "Lightcrust Dough-boys"? So now we know Rove's true origins!