Bishop Weeks pleads guilty

Is this the beginning of a reconciliation? Hmmm...

Bishop Thomas W. Weeks pleaded guilty Tuesday to aggravated assault in the summertime attack on his estranged wife, national evangelist Juanita Bynum.

In Fulton County Superior Court before judge T. Jackson Bedford, Weeks admitted that he grabbed Bynum, threw her down and kicked her in the parking of the Renaissance Concourse Hotel, near Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport on Aug. 21.

Weeks immediately was sentenced to three years probation, 200 hours of non-church related community service and ordered to attend anger management counseling. If he successfully completes these conditions, the conviction will be expunged from his record.

The contrite pastor apologized to Bynum.

My response:

No comment other than I hope both of them get in the presence of God and get it together...for real.

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Bishop Weeks tells his side of the story

So Bishop Weeks was on BET last night and I gotta tell you, he was very convincing. He denies beating Prophetess Bynum on that night in August 2007. I don't believe that. I also don't believe that he has never hit her. I do believe that we did not get the whole story and I believe him when he says she used to beat the crap out of him.

He also said that Juanita did not have a relationship with his daughter and that she was a different person when he would return from visiting her. I believe that.

According to Bishop Weeks, Prophetess Bynum wanted to walk away from ministry and go to Hollywood. I believe that too. Ministry is no joke and the higher up you go in it, the more mess you find out is going on. If you don't know any better, the mess that goes on makes you wonder if God even exists.

This mess right here is a prime example.

Low down and dirty

Just when I thought the Weeks/Bynum controversy would fall off into oblivion...

Bishop Thomas Weeks was on the Tom Joyner morning show on Monday talking smack about Juanita Bynum.

He appeared to announce the debut of his book, which was selling for $13.95. It included pages detailing what Weeks said were the couple's "weaknesses" in chapters with titles like "Opposites Attract, But Do They Last," and "She Wanted To Be the Next Oprah at Any Cost."

About 48 hours later, "What Love Taught Me" was yanked from distribution with this message on his website to his wife and his Global Destiny church family: "I want to speak to my wife," Weeks pleads. "I haven't been able to talk to her since Aug. 21, but I want to share something very personal and heartfelt. ... I have wounded her emotionally in the last 48 hours. I want to say publicly, globally and privately from my heart, I'm sorry. I am pulling every book that would have been shipped."

Weeks, an author and leader of a global ministry, promises a "full refund" to those who have ordered the book and says he will rerelease it at another date under a new title, "What Love Taught Me — Only."

I'm just shakin' my head. Scandalous. And we act like we don't know why attendance is down at church. Help us, Jesus.