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Carlton D'metrius Pearson (born March 19, 1953) is an American minister and gospel music artist.[1] At one time, he was the pastor of the Higher Dimensions Evangelistic Center Incorporated, later named the Higher Dimensions Family Church, which was one of the largest churches in Tulsa, Oklahoma. During the 1990s, it grew to an average attendance of over 6,000.

The Reverend

Carlton Pearson
Born
Carlton D'metrius Pearson

(1953-03-19) March 19, 1953 (age 69)
Occupation
  • Minister
  • singer
Spouse
Gina Marie Gauthier
(m. 1993; div. 2019)
ReligionChristian
OrdainedYes
Congregations served
Higher Dimensions Family Church
Websitewww.bishoppearson.com

Due to his stated belief in universal reconciliation, Pearson rapidly began to lose his influence in ministry with the Joint College of African-American Pentecostal Bishops and was eventually declared a heretic by his peers in 2004.[2]

Pearson has subsequently been the senior minister of Christ Universal Temple, a large New Thought congregation in Chicago, Illinois; head of a new Higher Dimensions fellowship in Chicago; and an affiliate minister at Tulsa's All Souls Unitarian Church.


Early career


Pearson was born on March 19, 1953, in San Diego, California. He attended Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, where he was mentored by Oral Roberts, and sang with the World Action Singers, later becoming an associate evangelist with the Oral Roberts Evangelistic Association. He was licensed and ordained in the Church of God in Christ.[3]

In 1981, Pearson formed his own church, Higher Dimensions Evangelistic Center, which became one of the largest churches in Tulsa. Along with Dr. Frederick K. C. Price, he was at one time one of only two African American ministers to host a weekly national television preaching show, reaching hundreds of thousands to millions of people weekly, and has been credited as being one of the first black ministers to hold major conferences in arenas and stadiums across the country. During the 1990s, Pearson's church grew to an average weekly attendance of over 6,000. On the opening night of his annual AZUSA Conference in 1996, Pearson was ordained as a bishop, and then consecrated on the opening night of AZUSA '97.

In 2000, Pearson campaigned for George W. Bush, and later he was invited to the White House. Pearson also had one of the most watched TV programs on the Trinity Broadcasting Network. Pearson was also the host of the AZUSA Conference in Tulsa. Pearson was also a traveling evangelist, holding two-day revivals across the continent. Pearson also gave many up-and-coming ministers and singers national exposure and a global audience, including T. D. Jakes, Joyce Meyer, and Donnie McClurkin. Pearson has also met and counseled with former presidents George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton.

Pearson is also a gospel vocalist who has won two Stellar Awards, and he was nominated for a Dove Award.[4]


The Gospel of Inclusion


A person who spends every day getting drunk, will ruin their health, marriage, family, and career; they will make their lives a living Hell. But that still falls far short of the chronic alcoholic being condemned by a just God to literally burn in Hell forever and ever. For others it may very well be that the punishment merited by their sins is greater than what they receive in this life. For those people perhaps there will be some kind of punishment after death, but we believe that it will be remedial and corrective rather than just punishment for punishment's sake. Exactly what that will be and how long it will last we don't know. Will Hell for some people last 10 minutes or 10 million years... we don't know. But this we do know: Hell will not last for eternity; it will not be endless... Don't sin. Be reunited with God now, rather than after you have put yourself (and those you love) through Hell.

Pearson's belief in Hell as stated on his web site[5]

After watching a television program about the wretched conditions of people suffering and dying from the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, and considering the teachings of his church that non-Christians were going to Hell, Pearson believed he had received an epiphany from God. He stated publicly that he doubted the existence of Hell as a place of eternal torment. He said that hell is created on earth by human depravity and behavior.[6]

In February 2002, Pearson lost a primary election for the office of mayor of Tulsa.[7] By then Pearson had begun to call his doctrine—a variation on universal reconciliation—the Gospel of Inclusion and many in his congregation began to leave.

In March 2004, after hearing Pearson's argument for inclusion, the Joint College of African-American Pentecostal Bishops concluded that such teaching was heresy.[1] Declared a heretic by his peers, Pearson rapidly began to lose his influence in the evangelical fundamentalist church.[8] Membership at the Higher Dimensions Family Church fell below 1,000, and the church lost its building to foreclosure in January 2006. The church members began meeting at Trinity Episcopal Church on Sunday afternoons as the renamed New Dimensions Worship Center.[9]


The Higher Dimensions Worship Center


In November 2006, Pearson was accepted as a United Church of Christ minister.

In June 2008, the then renamed New Dimensions Worship Center moved its services to the All Souls Unitarian Church in Tulsa. On September 7, 2008, Pearson held his final service for the New Dimensions Worship Center, and it was absorbed into the All Souls Unitarian Church.[10][11]


The Christ Universal Temple (Chicago)


In May 2009, Pearson was named the interim minister of the Christ Universal Temple, a large New Thought congregation in Chicago, Illinois.[12] On January 3, 2011, it was reported that he had left this position.[13]


New Dimensions Chicago and return to Tulsa


In 2014 Pearson returned to Tulsa to be with his ailing father who died two days after Pearson's 62nd birthday. He began preaching at the 11 am service at All Souls Unitarian Church on the third Sunday of the month, while still traveling to Chicago to preach once a month at New Dimensions Chicago, the fellowship he founded there. Pearson also began holding a monthly discussion with a guest before a live audience at Tulsa's "My Studio" in May 2015. His first conversation was with Neale Donald Walsch, author of the mega-best-selling nine-book series, Conversations With God.[14][15]


Media coverage



Come Sunday


In July 2010 it was announced that director Marc Forster would direct a feature film about Pearson's life, from a script by Marcus Hinchey based on This American Life's "Heretics" episode.[20] In January 2017, Joshua Marston was reported to be directing the project as a film for Netflix, with Chiwetel Ejiofor cast to play Pearson, Condola Rashad as his wife Gina, and Martin Sheen as Oral Roberts.[21] The film, entitled Come Sunday, premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival[22] and was released on Netflix on April 13, 2018.[23]


Personal life


In September 1993, Pearson was married at age 40 to the former Gina Marie Gauthier (born December 13, 1961 in Lake Charles, LA). She is a life coach by profession. They have two children; a son, Julian D'metrius Pearson, born on July 9, 1994, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and a daughter, Majestè Amour Pearson, born October 29, 1996, in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

On August 25, 2015, Gina Pearson filed for divorce from Carlton.[24] On May 19, 2016, before the divorce was finalized, Mrs. Pearson dismissed her petition for divorce.[25] The divorce was finalized on October 3, 2019.[25]


Books



References


  1. "Ten Minutes with Carlton". Archived from the original on 2007-11-14. Retrieved 2007-11-29.
  2. "Carlton Pearson declared a heretic – Apologetics Index". 20 December 2005. Retrieved 29 August 2016.
  3. "New Dimensions Information page". Archived from the original on 2007-12-14. Retrieved 2007-11-29.
  4. "Pentecostal Profiles". Archived from the original on August 11, 2007. Retrieved 2007-11-29.
  5. "Inclusion.ws". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 29 August 2016.
  6. "Heretics". This American Life. 2005-12-16. Retrieved 2011-05-23.
  7. "Pearson's Gospel of Inclusion' Stirs Controversy" Archived 2009-02-12 at the Wayback Machine Charisma Magazine, May, 2002
  8. "Beliefnet". Archived from the original on 10 June 2008. Retrieved 29 August 2016.
  9. Davis, KirLee (April 18, 2007). "Tulsa Christian school buys former church for $5.19M". The Journal Record.
  10. Bill Sherman, "After last sermon, no regrets" Tulsa World, September 21, 2008
  11. "Formerly major church is folded into another" Archived 2010-07-10 at the Wayback Machine, AP in Deseret News, September 27, 2008.
  12. Margaret Ramirez, "Some Christ UniversalTemple members oppose Rev. Carlton Pearson’s appointment", Chicago Tribune, May 11, 2009.
  13. Manya Brachear, "Christ Universal Temple leader stepping down: 2-year tenure at South Side megachurch ending", Chicago Tribune, January 3, 2011
  14. Bill Sherman, "Bishop Carlton Pearson returns to Tulsa, begins monthly discussion series", Tulsa World, May 13, 2015.
  15. New Dimensions Chicago at Carlton Pearson official website (accessed 2015-05-14).
  16. "Heretics". Retrieved 23 January 2018.
  17. To Hell and Back, Dateline NBC story on Pearson's evolution
  18. "CNN.com – Transcripts". Retrieved 29 August 2016.
  19. "Nightline Face-Off: Does Satan Exist?". Archived from the original on 2008-05-30. Retrieved 2009-03-29.
  20. Kilday, Gregg. "Marcus Hinchey penning 'Heretics'". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on 2012-09-07. Retrieved 2010-08-08.
  21. Busch, Anita (January 5, 2017). "Martin Sheen Will Play Oral Roberts Opposite Chiwetel Ejiofor in Netflix's 'Come Sunday'". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 2017-01-05.
  22. Debruge, Peter (January 22, 2018). "Sundance Film Review: 'Come Sunday'". Variety. Retrieved 2018-02-02.
  23. Kenigsberg, Ben (April 12, 2018). "Review: In 'Come Sunday,' Chiwetel Ejiofor Plays a Doubting Bishop". New York Times. Retrieved 2018-04-17.
  24. Justice, Jessilyn. "Universalist Carlton Pearson's Wife Files for Divorce". Retrieved 29 August 2016.
  25. "Pearson v. Pearson". Tulsa County, Oklahoma District Court, FD-2015-2278. Retrieved 13 January 2017.
  26. First two chapters of The Gospel of inclusion Archived 2007-01-23 at the Wayback Machine, from the New Dimensions website
  27. "God Is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu... | Book by Carlton Pearson – Simon & Schuster". Books.simonandschuster.com. 2010-02-24. Retrieved 2011-05-23.



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Carlton D'metrius Pearson, (nacido 19 de marzo de1953 en San Diego, California) es un ministro religioso estadounidense.[1] En su momento fue el pastor del Centro Evangelístico Higher Dimensions, más tarde lo nombró Iglesia Familiar Higher Dimensions que era una de las iglesias más grandes en Tulsa, Oklahoma. Durante la década de 1990 la iglesia tuvo aproximadamente 5,000 miembros. Debido a su creencia declarada en la reconciliación universal Pearson rápidamente empezó a perder su influencia en el ministerio del Colegio Conjunto de Obispos Pentecostales Afroamericanos y en 2004 fue finalmente declarado hereje por sus pares obispos.[2]



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