A former Hammond First Baptist Church pastor convicted in 2013 of a sex crime has again asked for early release due to his parents’ failing health, court filings show. Jack Schaap, 63, is serving a 12 ...

Letter writer L.M. Jobe is glad Pastor Jack Hyles is no longer in the pulpit. Would 50 or 100,000 people listen to Jobe? Where is Jobe's special school for the blind or Spanish? How many books has ...

September 1959: The Rev. Jack Hyles is named pastor of First Baptist Church, moving to Hammond from a small 44-member church in Garland, Texas, to begin a thriving, fundamental new testament Baptist ...

Preying from the Pulpit was a mini-news series produced in May 1993 by WJBK of Detroit, Michigan, for the 11:00 PM news. The news report argued that sexual abuse in seven different churches around the ...

A federal judge has rejected a former Hammond First Baptist pastor’s bid for early release from a sex crime sentence. Jack Schaap, 63, is serving a 12-year federal sentence since his March 2013 ...