Posted on 10/16/2012 3:41:28 PM PDT by tellw
King's crisis
RELIGION | After a meteoric rise in the evangelical world, The King’s College president Dinesh D’Souza now faces his board’s likely questions about his relationship to a woman not his wife
About 2,000 people gathered on Sept. 28 at First Baptist North in Spartanburg, S.C., to hear high-profile Christians speak on defending the faith and applying a Christian worldview to their lives. Among the speakers: Eric Metaxas, Josh McDowell, and—keynote speaker for the evening—best-selling author, filmmaker, and Christian college president Dinesh D’Souza.
D’Souza’s speech earned him a standing ovation and a long line at the book-signing table immediately afterward. Although D’Souza has been married for 20 years to his wife, Dixie, in South Carolina he was with a young woman, Denise Odie Joseph II, and introduced her to at least three people as his fiancée.
Finally, near 11 p.m., event organizer Tony Beam escorted D’Souza and Joseph to the nearby Comfort Suites. Beam noted that they checked in together and were apparently sharing a room for the night in the sold-out hotel. The next morning, around 6 a.m., Beam arrived back at the hotel and called up to D’Souza’s room. “We’ll be down in 10 minutes,” D’Souza told Beam. D’Souza and Joseph came down together, and Beam took them to the airport.
The next day another conference organizer, Alex McFarland, distressed by D’Souza’s behavior, confronted him in a telephone conversation. D’Souza admitted he shared a room with his fiancée but said “nothing happened.” When I called D’Souza, he confirmed that he was indeed engaged to Joseph, but did not explain how he could be engaged to one woman while still married to another. When asked when he had filed for divorce from his wife, Dixie, D’Souza answered, “Recently.”
According to San Diego County (Calif.) Superior Court records, D’Souza filed for divorce only on Oct. 4, the day I spoke with him. Under California law, that starts the clock on a six-month waiting period for divorce. D’Souza on Oct. 4 told me his marriage was “over,” said he “is sure Denise is the one for me,” and said he had “done nothing wrong.”
The episode is a strange twist in D’Souza’s otherwise meteoric rise in the evangelical world. He developed a reputation among evangelicals with a string of best-sellers, including The Roots of Obama’s Rage, which spawned a movie, Obama: 2016, which has now grossed more than $30 million. He broke into the Christian conference and megachurch market in 2007 with the release of a book that year, What’s So Great About Christianity.
D’Souza now receives speaking fees sometimes in excess of $10,000 from Christian groups, putting him in the top tier of Christian speakers. In 2010 he became president of The King’s College, New York City, which is supported by Campus Crusade for Christ, now called Cru. At that time he moved from California to New York, with his wife staying in California.
D’Souza said King’s board chairman Andy Mills has known about his marital trouble for at least two years. Mills confirmed that through a spokesman, Mark DeMoss, who added that Mills was “hopeful about restoration and both he [D’Souza] and Andy were praying to that end.” DeMoss said The King’s College board met by conference call to begin “looking into the situation.” D’Souza participated in a portion of that call, DeMoss said. Following that meeting, on Oct. 15, D’Souza wrote in a text message to me: “I have decided to suspend the engagement.”
The King’s board plans further discussion at a regularly scheduled meeting on Oct. 17 and 18, DeMoss said.
This article will appear in the Nov. 3 issue of WORLD Magazine.
I wish you all the best and hope things work out the way you want them to.
Saying a prayer for you.
Thanks, FRiend ... I’m pretty near 100% confident it will all work out ;-). We’ve been through worse.
God bless you, your husband and all your lovely kids. We’re thinking about you!
Personal so it shouldn’t matter. Doesn’t for the scumbags on the left.
My 27th anniversary was Oct 12. 27 years, no kids. We are now, as I’m typing, sitting on the awesome outside porch at Parrain’s in Baton Rouge with our neice. Beer, wine and oysters for lunch. Now we are staying (I’m using their internet) and having a seafood sampler.
Life is good.
HYPOCRITS
Hmmm... Vetting him but not Obama... Larry Sinclair even had a press conference but nobody reported it....
Must have touched a nerve...
I thought he was engaged to Luara Ingraham within the last 17 years.
I went through a divorce ....depressing.....and VERY expensive!!!!!!!!
: )
Honestly, who cares what a writer does in his private life? He’s getting divorced, get me the smelling salts!
You and your family will be in my prayers!
Luara = Laura
The MSM works on the important stuff, like the status of Joe the Plumber's trade license and the DNA of Palin's Down Syndrome child.
Oh and now whether Ryan is wasting water when doing the dishes.
Thank you all for your prayers, good wishes, and concern. The FR community has done so much for me, in almost ten years. I remember, way back around 2002, I thought I knew so much ... because nobody was listening to me! Then I hit FR and realized I was a dumbass!
And you know what? Today is my 10 year FReepversary! Everyone have an adult beverage of choice, and vote Republican, even if you have to hold your noses!
Thank you ... I know you’re in the same “stage of life” as I am ... little kids, big kids, teens you want to kill.
” Everyone have an adult beverage of choice” (OK)
, “and vote Republican” (OK)
” even if you have to hold your noses!” (GUARANTEED!!)
I am so sorry to hear about your rough patch right now, Tax-chick. A commitment to your family and staying together is probably half the battle. You stay strong and prayers for you and your family. Sometimes the rough patches are what makes us stronger. We work through them, survive them and realize we are more committed to each other and love each other than the day of our wedding. (plus, you and I both know we are too old and tired to train new ones!)
A little different, don’t you think? He’s calling the lady his fiancée. He’s HermanCaining himself. He would be livid if you called his fiancee a bimbo. This is very strange.
Happy FReeper Anniversary!! Will have a drink in your honor and keep you in my prayers.
Interesting that you should say that. I’m not having the best day myself, and decided to hit the booze a little earlier than usual, lol! Wheeeeee!
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