'Don't let the devil steal your joy': Dallas pastor Rickie Rush cast himself as a warrior battling

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‘Don’t let the devil steal your joy’: Dallas pastor Rickie Rush cast himself as a warrior battling Satan. It was the perfect mask to abuse members, they say


The request seemed odd: Renee Phillips' pastor had asked her to visit him at her old Dallas high school, where he still taught drama classes.

After all, they regularly spoke at church. But she didn’t want to disappoint the man who inspired her as much as the Bible she carried in a case over her shoulder.

It was spring break, 1996. Renee was 19. The school was deserted. She walked the long hallways to his classroom. She remembers the bells on the door jangling as she entered.

She recalls his purple suspenders as he leaned in for a long hug.

“Are you OK?” she asked.

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Essentially it was a pastor at a church that used his influence to have sexual relations with young women in his congregation. Five of those women have come forward with various allegations.