When disc jockeys and pastors clash, usually it is the radio personality who gets the worst of it, facing outraged listeners, fleeing advertisers and summary firings from nervous station management.
But after the self-described “wild man of Chicago radio” Mancow Muller — since last month, on WLS-AM (890) — took issue with his former spiritual guide James MacDonald, founder of the Harvest Bible Chapel, it was the senior pastor of the mega-church who lost his job, officials of the 12,000 member church with seven locations in the Chicago area announced “with great sadness” Wednesday.
MacDonald had said he was taking an “indefinite sabbatical from all preaching and leadership” in mid-January.
“I am grieved that people I love have been hurt by me in ways they felt they could not express to me directly and have not been able to resolve,” he said in a statement.
“I’m upset that I was duped by a con man,” said Muller, who wrote a 2,200 word condemnation in the Daily Herald at the end of January against the man who baptized him in the River Jordan. He said how once MacDonald “taught me forgiveness, trust, being authentic and taking a stand for what’s right,” but that Muller later came to see “an environment of thievery, and a smarmy actor out front, a guy who … was brutal to everyone he thought was subservient.”
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Source: Chicago Sun Times
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