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Chapel Hill Bible Church in the News: Timeline

By October 10, 2023January 30th, 2025No Comments

These articles are organized with most recent at the top. If you want to read in chronological order, jump to the bottom.

Jan 30, 2025
Bodies Behind the Bus (podcast)  Crissie and Walker’s Story/Chapel Hill Bible Church/North Carolina Part 3
Also on Amazon Music

In part 3, Crissie and Walker share their first hand perspectives as they speak conversationally with each other and the hosts

Jan 22, 2025
Bodies Behind the Bus (podcast) Crissie and Walker’s Stories/Chapel Hill Bible Church/North Carolina Part 2
Also on Amazon Music
Continuation of  first person perspectives from the administrative assistant who exposed the church’s use of NDAs when refused to sign one and gave up  severance money  and  perspectives from an elder who subsequently resigned . 
Jan 15, 2025

Bodies Behind the Bus (podcast)  Crissie’s Story/Chapel Hill Bible Church/North Carolina Part 1

First person perspectives from the administrative assistant who exposed the church’s use of NDAs when she refused to sign one and gave up  severance money.

 

April 7, 2023

The Washington Post  This North Carolina church used to be multiracial. Then came Jan. 6.

The title is somewhat misleading: the article actually describes the decrease in multi-ethnicity as beginning after Jay Thomas became pastor, not simply after January 6th.

(Note: Washington Post carried the story from Religion News Service below, which has no paywall.) 

 

April 4, 2023

Religion News Service  This North Carolina church used to be multiracial. Then came Jan. 6.

The title is somewhat misleading: the article actually describes the decrease in multi-ethnicity as beginning after Jay Thomas became pastor, not simply after January 6th.

Same article as The Washington Post article above. No paywall.

 

Dec. 8, 2022

The Roys Report:  Prominent North Carolina Church Embroiled in Controversy Following Alleged Abuse & 3 Investigations

Links to primary source documents: the elders’ announcement that they would hire G.R.A.C.E., a copy of the NDA, the letter from the elders to the congregation following the article in the Daily Tar Heel, The leadership’s summary of the G.R.A.C.E. Executive Summary, and a video of the response of Jay Thomas to the findings of G.R.A.C.E. 

 

Dec 5, 2022

The Wartburg Watch (blog) Chapel Hill Bible Church is Done Talking and Lamenting. It Tells Some Church Members to Go Away.

Primary source document: copy of elders’ letter to congregation

 

Nov. 29, 2022

The Daily Tar Heel:  Chapel Hill Bible Church leaders face allegations, investigations over abusive behavior

Links to primary source documents of the elders’ summary of the G.R.A.C.E. Executive Summary and to the report from Leighton Ford Ministries.

 

Nov  23, 2022

The Wartburg Watch (blog) Chapel Hill Bible Church and the GRACE Report: When the Priesthood of the Believers Became the Priesthood of the Priests

Primary source document: excerpts from the elders’ summary of the G.R.A.C.E. executive summary and link to summary

 

Nov 14, 2022

The Wartburg Watch (blog) Chapel Hill Bible Church Should Hire a Warg* to Protect the GRACE Report From the Eyes of the “Unaffirmed” Membership.

 

March 4, 2022

The Wartburg Watch (blog) The Convicting Letters of Resignation from Four Elders of Chapel Hill Bible Church

Primary source documents: elder resignation letters

 

March 2, 2022

The Wartburg Watch (blog) Chapel Hill Bible Church Will Not Release the Entire G.R.A.C.E Report to the Membership in Order to Protect the Staff. Then, There’s the Racism Thing…

Primary source: video of elder chair’s comments

 

Oct 11, 2021

Chapel Hill Bible Church:  behind the whitewash
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