Pam Palmer was at a barbecue when she heard the news. It was 2011, five years after her family had left Covenant Life Church. But the Gaithersburg congregation and its founder, C.J. Mahaney, remained on her mind. Now one of her relatives was telling her that amid controversy Mahaney had surrendered the top post at … Continue reading The Sex-Abuse Scandal That Devastated a Suburban Megachurch