We don’t cover a lot of news out of Kenya on a regular basis but this story is pretty horrible. A former taxi driver named Paul Mackenzie remade himself as a preacher. He has now been charged in the deaths of nearly 200 children whose parents were part of his starvation cult.
In Kenya, there is an old joke that if you lose your job, start a church or a charity. And sometime in the early 2000s, Mackenzie abandoned his job as a taxi driver and launched the Good News International Ministry.
Mackenzie became known for his fiery sermons. He drew a significant following, says an assistant pastor who worked with him for years until they had a falling out.
At first the sermons, while fiery, were apparently relatively normal. But sometime around 2010, Mackenzie became obsessed with “end time” messages. He began telling people to pull their children out of school and separate themselves from…
