Before his peers would label him a heretic, the late Bishop Carlton D. Pearson was once one of the best known preachers in the nation. Pearson underwent a cataclysmic theological shift that altered the course of his life – and his legacy among the canon of American Christian leaders. Pearson, 70, died Nov. 19 after a brief battle with cancer.
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