The scandal roiling one of the nation's biggest megachurches, explained
![Pastor Robert Morris applauds during a roundtable discussion at Gateway Church in Dallas on June 11, 2020. A statement issued on Tuesday, June 18, 2024, said that Morris has resigned after a woman said he had abused her on multiple occasions in the 1980s, beginning when she was 12.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/5333x4000+333+0/resize/5333x4000!/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F40%2F39%2F5143f6f34d7f843e615c53564960%2Fap24170788476017.jpg)
A woman says Robert Morris, prominent evangelical pastor, former Trump religious adviser and founder of Gateway Church, sexually abused her as a child in the 1980s. Morris has resigned from Gateway.
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