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Hosted by Bob Hyatt · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 14 episodes
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It’s a true-crime-meets-church-history ride that digs into the wild, uncomfortable, sometimes unbelievable stories of pastors who went way off the rails—financial fraud, secret lives, culty control, the works. Each episode pulls apart what actually happened, why it mattered, and what we can learn from it without turning it into a doom spiral about the church. You’ll get sharp storytelling, dark humor, and the oddly reassuring reminder that accountability matters and redemption is real… even if some of these guys took the scenic route away from it.
Bob Hyatt hosts The Bad Pastors Podcast, a religion show with 14 episodes published.
In this Ministry Mantra episode of Bad Pastors, Bob Hyatt speaks directly to leaders navigating anxious, unsettled times. When the pressure is high and the noise is loud, it’s easy to forget a simple but grounding truth:
What do you get when a Florida pastor starts quoting Luke 6:38 like it’s a financial prospectus? You get one of the biggest religious Ponzi schemes in American history. This week, we’re diving into the unbelievable story
When a pastor has a secret life, it’s almost always a disaster. Almost. In this episode of Bad Pastors, we tell the true and wildly unexpected story of Fray Tormenta—a Catholic priest who secretly lived a double life for
Bill Hybels didn’t set out to become a bad pastor. He set out to reach people nobody else was reaching. And for a long time—he did. In this episode, we explore how one of the most influential pastors of the modern era bu
In this episode of Bad Pastors, we head to Brooklyn to meet Lamor Whitehead — the self-styled “Bling Bishop” who turned the pulpit into a platform, the platform into a brand, and the brand into a federal indictment. When
Aimee Semple McPherson was a trailblazer— a pioneering woman preacher, media innovator, and one of the most famous Christians in America. She healed the sick. She packed stadiums. She understood radio, branding, and spec
Churches know how to draw a crowd. The harder question is what kind of faith that crowd is being formed into. In this Ministry Mantra episode, Bob Hyatt steps away from the wreckage and offers a formative reminder every
This week, on Bad Pastors, a very special Christmas episode… the true story of what happened when well-meaning, deeply serious pastors decided that Christmas was unbiblical, disorderly, and far too joyful to be trusted.
Before it became a respectable name on your dining room table, Oneida was something else entirely. In the 1800s, religious leader John Humphrey Noyes set out to build a Christian utopia — a community free from greed, jea
In this “Ministry Mantra” break from our usual tour of pastoral train-wrecks, Bob invites you to slow down, unclench your soul a bit, and consider a gentler, more Gospel-shaped way of leading. Instead of piling on anothe
In this gripping conclusion to the James MacDonald story, we follow the seismic events that brought down one of America’s most influential megachurch pastors. From Julie Roys’ WORLD Magazine exposé to the leaked recordin
In this first episode of a two-part saga, we trace the dramatic rise of James MacDonald, founder of Harvest Bible Chapel, from a small gathering in a high school auditorium to a multi-campus evangelical empire with natio
In this episode of Bad Pastors, we explore the shocking case of Pastor Anthony Salgado, leader of New Life Christian Church and Academy in San Antonio, Texas. Once a trusted spiritual guide and school administrator, Salg
In this episode of Bad Pastors, we dive into the shocking true story of Pastor John Bishop, also known as John Wright, whose rise to prominence at Living Hope Church in Washington ended in a stunning fall from grace. Onc
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The Bad Pastors Podcast is hosted by Bob Hyatt. The show is categorised under religion (spirituality) and has published 14 episodes.
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