The 80-year-old leader of a suburban Atlanta megachurch is at the center of a sex scandal of biblical dimensions: He slept with his brother’s wife and fathered a child by her. Members of Archbishop Earl Paulk’s family stood at the pulpit of the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit at Chapel Hill Harvester Church a few Sundays ago and revealed the secret exposed by a recent court-ordered paternity test.
Earl Pearly Paulk, Jr. (1927-) is founder of Chapel Hill Harvester Church in Decatur, Georgia; a suburb of Atlanta.
Paulk was born May 30, 1927 to the late Dr. Earl Pearly Paulk, Sr. (former general overseer of the Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) and Addie Mae Tomberlin Paulk. At 17, Paulk said he received a call from God to enter ministry, traveling and preaching on the weekends while attending college. He later married Norma Davis. Paulk attended the Candler School of Theology, becoming the first Pentecostal to attend the seminary, which was predominantly Methodist.
There have been many sex scandals swirling around Paulk for many years. Two of the more prominent scandals involved Cindy Hall and Mona Brewer.
In truth, this is not the first—or even the second—sex scandal to engulf Paulk and the independent, charismatic church. But this time, he could be in trouble with the law for lying under oath about the affair.
The living proof of that lie is 34-year-old D.E. Paulk, who for years was known publicly as Earl Paulk’s nephew…. D.E. Paulk said he did not learn the secret of his parentage until the paternity test. “I was disappointed, and I was surprised,” he said.
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