The Vertical Church Band never intended to release its music outside of its own church. The worship band of the Chicago-founded Harvest Bible Chapel has written and recorded original music since 2001, ...

CHICAGO (RNS) — Harvest Bible Chapel has apologized both privately and publicly to a freelance journalist and two bloggers whom it sued last fall. The lawsuit, which also included the bloggers’ wives, ...

CHICAGO (RNS) — Harvest Bible Chapel has announced it will drop a defamation lawsuit against two bloggers, their wives and a freelance reporter after a court ruled that documents subpoenaed in the ...

For the Rolling Meadows-based Harvest Bible Chapel, it's been a year of resignations and a reorganization with an eye toward renewal and redemption. Its leader and church founder, James MacDonald, was ...

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Pastor James MacDonald and Harvest Bible Chapel filed a lawsuit this month against two ex-members and former Moody Radio host Julie Roys, accusing them of spreading false information about the Chicago ...

The controversial founder and former pastor of Harvest Bible Chapel is barred from serving as pastor or elder of the popular evangelical Christian church ever again after an investigation concluded he ...

Harvest Bible Chapel announced today that James MacDonald will step away from the multisite church he founded and pastored for over 30 years while the congregation undergoes a “peacemaking process” to ...

A national accreditation group has officially terminated Harvest Bible Chapel’s membership for violating financial stewardship standards. The termination is the latest blow to the popular megachurch, ...

The Vertical Church Band never intended to release its music outside of its own church. The worship band of the Chicago-founded Harvest Bible Chapel has written and recorded original music since 2001, ...