Chuck Smith

Calvary Chapel Gets Smackdown From The Daily Beast

It starts to look like more and more mainstream media outlets are starting to cast a skeptical eye on Calvary Chapel, not just on the mothership or founder Chuck Smith, but its bizarre, convenient structure that simultaneously allows Chuckie to claim no responsibility for problem outposts and full a ... More >>

[UPDATED with Board's Memories:] Chuck Smith--No, Not That Chuck Smith; We Mean the Former County Supervisor--Dies

See the update at the end of this post about county supervisors remembering Smith before adjourning today's Board meeting in his honor.ORIGINAL POST, OCT. 1, 2:18 P.M.: Charles V. "Chuck" Smith, who as an Orange County supervisor during the Weekly's toddler years became our face for good (advocating ... More >>

Calvary Chapel Pastor to Sue Son He Abused for Defamation

Over the past two years, Alex Grenier has penned Calvary Chapel Abuse, an explosive blog that has served as a sound-off board for folks burned, abused, and generally turned off by the Calvary Chapel octopus. It was inspired by tragedy: Alex says his father, Calvary Chapel Visalia pastor Bob Grenier, ... More >>

Is Calvary Chapel Preparing Camp Pendleton Marines to Fight for the End Times?

Calvary Chapel has more than a few critics--scratch that, Calvary Chapel has a hell of a lot of critics, from folks who don't like its child-molester protecting ways to former members virtually excommunicated because they dared criticize founder/leader/Ra Chuck Smith, to other evangelical Christians ... More >>

Chuck Smith to Grim Reaper: Fuck Off

If God hasn't healed you or your loved ones from a life-threatening disease yet, it's probably because you're too far back in the line. Apparently, his priority is 85-year-old preachers. The family of Chuck Smith, as well as the extended family known as the Calvary Chapel un-denomination he found ... More >>

Calvary Chapel's Mothership Connection

Are Potato State perverts threatening the church's OC base?

Jesus People Rocking Chuck Smith to Heaven

These must be strange days indeed for Calvary Chapelites. Having heard from Chuck Smith for more than four decades that Jesus will return in the Rapture, they must've expected to be in glory by now, alongside their faithful pastor and friend.But it appears Chuck may be heading to heaven the old fash ... More >>

Chuck Smith Agrees With China: Children Are a Liability

Being the pious and compassionate souls we are, the Weekly staff continues to lift Calvary Chapel founder Chuck Smith up to the Lord as he battles cancer. The longer he lives, the more money quotes we get!Chuck, who once pissed off family advocates by telling a caller to his Pastor's Persp ... More >>

God Gives Chuck Smith More Time to Clean Up Calvary Chapel

Chuck Smith, the founder and pastor of Calvary Chapel, who announced in January that he is battling lung cancer, is doing better, according to the Praying For Chuck Smith page on Facebook.The update from daughter Janette Smith Manderson comes after the jump:

Chuck Smith Finishes Breakfast, Goes to Emergency Room

​Chuck Smith had a little scare Sunday after breakfast. Don't know if it was the cooking, but he was taken to the emergency room, according to his daughter, Janette Smith Manderson. Here's what she posted on the Praying for Chuck Smith page on Facebook:

What We Learned, March 3-9

​It's my dick in a box, I mean, a look at the week past and what we learned for it.MARCH 3: Kristen Wiig and host Lindsay Lohan appear in a hilarious Saturday Night Live skit mixing two iconic local entities: The Real Housewives of Orange County and The Unreal Princesses of Disneyland. "Weekend Up ... More >>

It's The End of the World as We Know it (Again): Chuck Smith More Rapture-Ready Than Ever

​Chuck Smith is putting on his Nostradamus pants again. The Calvary Chapel founder wrapped up the 2012 SoCal Prophecy Conference at Calvary Chapel Chino Hills last Sunday with happy talk about the world's imminent doom and the rapture of the church.

Son of Calvary Chapel Pastor Allegedly Mocks "Retarded Fuck" Congregant

​It appears that another chapter has been written in the ongoing embarrassment that is Calvary Chapel's refusal to intervene in one of its affiliate church's fusterclucks. Alex Grenier, who is documenting his fight against Calvary Chapel corruption and the alleged abuses of his stepfather, Re ... More >>

The OCeeker: Calvary Chapel, the Mothership, and the Chuck Smith Death Watch

​Chuck Smith is dying. While this is good news for Smith (for to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord!), it's terrible news for those at Calvary Chapel who have pinned their blessed hope on being raptured away with an icon of American evangelicalism and the chief cornerstone ... More >>

Chuck Smith on Proposition 8 Ruling: "Absolutely Tragic"

​Pastor Chuck Smith of Calvary Chapel today led off his daily radio program Pastor's Perspective not with a prayer, but a protest. Smith referred to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals striking down California's ban on same-sex marriage as "absolutely tragic", and wond ... More >>

Calvary Chapels in Gardena, Downey Doing Chuck Smith Proud by Trying to Shutter Businesses They Don't Like

​While Calvary Chapel founder Chuck Smith battles lung cancer, he no doubts take solace in know that his acolytes are continuing the movement's raison d'etre (besides gay bashing, of course): being moralistic NIMBYers.The big story right now involves Calvary Chapel South Bay, located in Gardena. T ... More >>

Chuck Smith, Calvary Chapel Founder, Announces He Has Lung Cancer

​The news is blasting through the Christian world that Calvary Chapel founder Chuck Smith has lung cancer."Please pray for Pastor Chuck Smith, Sr.!" reads Calvary Chapel's current Facebook status update. "Today it was announced cancer has been found in his lung; there is uncertainty as to the ex ... More >>

What We Learned

The Year on Navel Gazing and Beyond!

Chuck Smith Blasts, Threatens Calvary Chapel Abuse Survivor from the Pulpit of CC Costa Mesa

​Sorry that I'm late to this, but here's a blockbuster: last week, from the pulpit of the Calvary Chapel mothership in SanTana (even though they call themselves CC Costa Mesa), head Chuck Smith blasted an abuse survivor of one of his pastors and promised divine retribution upon the victim for dari ... More >>

Chuck Smith Meets with Calvary Chapel Abuse Survivor, Calls His Blog "A Bunch of Lies"

Smith: For how long will he smile?​You'll remember last year we brought ustedes the story of Alex Grenier, whose stepfather is the pastor at Calvary Chapel Visalia and whom Grenier says physically abused him repeatedly as a child. Since then, Grenier has become a hero to the many, many people burn ... More >>

Remembering When Chuck Smith Predicted the End Times--And They Didn't Happen

​Much is being made right now about some yahoos predicting that the world will end on May 21 because Scripture says so--you know, because such predictions have never been offered in the history of humanity. You can see their billboards around the county, with an added ad to listen to some radio st ... More >>

He Shall Be Set Free

Phil Aguilar’s brand of outlaw Christianity made him an evangelical powerhouse—and has law enforcement calling the pastor a criminal

Is Calvary Chapel Head Chuck Smith Covering for a Child Beater?

Smith: a titan of American Christian, a gnat of a man​One of these days, I'm going to get around to investigate Calvary Chapel and the many allegations sent my way that it protects abusers within their ranks. It's one of American Christianity's great open secrets, and only Christianity Today has t ... More >>

Philip L. Liberatore Jumps From Political Circus to a Real One

​The last time we heard from Phil Liberatore, he was seeking the Republican nomination to knock off Rep. Gary Miller (R-Diamond Bar) and picking up support from Arizona's controversial Sheriff Joe Arpaio.Obviously having licked his wounds from his June primary loss to the 11-year incumbent, the te ... More >>

Is Calvary Chapel's Tustin Branch a Secret Mosque?

Will Chuck Smith soon become an imam?​Remember that Drudge-created controversy a couple of months ago where some government agency or other unveiled their new logo, and lunatics said that its similarity to the crescent-and-moon symbol of the Middle East was further proof that President Barack Obam ... More >>

Calvary Chapel to Crucify Darwin this Weekend!

​While Rick Warren goes around eating ice cream, the mothership Calvary Chapel campus will host a two-day conference starting Friday on the evils of Charles Darwin. Titled, appropriately enough, "Darwin was Wrong," a press release promises many lectures on the subject by scientists who "will prese ... More >>

Time for Boston To Give Us Their Crown as the Kings of Bigotry

OC founding father Henry W. Head: Could take on a Bostonian any day​Let the baseball pundits obsess over whether your Angels will finally beat the Boston Red Sox in the playoffs next week--I care about stripping from Beantown what's now rightfully ours: the title of most-racist 'burb in America.†... More >>

Chuck Smith Says Economic Crisis Means Jesus Coming Soon!

In our recent obsession over Purpose-Driven Rick and Mariners Church's gay-employee-firing controversy, we at the Weekly have been derelict in reporting on the other people that make Orange County Christianity so damn fascinating--and, by other people, I mean Calvary Chapel founder and pastor Chuck ... More >>

David Di Sabatino Is Drawn to Charismatic Christians. But Nothing Prepared Him for Larry Norman

The Fabulously Fruity Chuck Smith

So a bunch of gays got married today, and the Christian Right is livid (but where was Fred Phelps when you needed him?). Providing a much-needed coda for today was none other than the legendary Chuck Smith, founder of the Calvary Chapel movement (shown here in another fabulous shirt). He was just on ... More >>

Rosie's Riveting Fabulists

It's always entertaining to see which sacrificial lamb the Orange County Republican Party offers to Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez every two years, but the 2008 election is already proving to be particularly fun. Running unopposed as the Republican nominee for the 47th Congressional District is Santa ... More >>

Chuck Smith Heralded as Jesus in Backwards California County

Tehama County, California, is one of the Golden State's more-backward counties, with a population of about 60,000 and a local economy predicated on tourism and...uh, not much else. The main newspaper in town, the Red Bluff Daily News, is a Dean Singleton-owned rag, and thus we can't expect much of i ... More >>

The Wrath of Chuck

The First Jesus Freak

A pot-smokin, LSD-droppin seeker turned Calvary Chapel into a household name. So why is Lonnie Frisbee missing from church history?

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