Netflix releases film on the life of defamed pentecostal, Bishop Carlton Pearson
The "Come Sunday" story covers how the world of the man who started one of the largest conferences in the Pentecostal movement, Azusa, came tumbling down. Pearson lost everything. Chiwetel Ejiofor ("12 Years A Slave") plays charismatic Bishop Carlton Pearson in the Netflix movie, "Come Sunday." It is a biographical account of the rise and fall of the prominent pastor. Pearson was ostracized from the church after teaching hell does not exist. Ten years in the making, the film premiered at Sundance in April of this year. "Come Sunday" was originally titled "Heretic." Based off a feature on This American Life, his position changed after seeing millions suffer in Africa and his uncle (played by Danny Glover) committed suicide in jail. As the then pastor of the Higher Dimension Family Church in Tulsa, OK, Pearson began to speak publicly on what he calls the "Gospel of Inclusion," a form of universalism that holds ...