What do you do when you're wrongly fired by a megachurch and then denied any severance unless you sign an NDA?

Welcome to the Roy's Report, a podcast dedicated to reporting the truth and restoring the church.

I'm Julie Roy's.

And my guest today, Lori Harding, says this happened to her not once, but twice.

And the first time she alleges it happened was in 2014, when she was on staff at the famous Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church.

This is a church formerly pastored by Dr. D. James Kennedy.

But after Kennedy died in 2007, Tullian-Tivigian, Billy Graham's grandson became the pastor

at Coral Ridge, and Harding worked under Tavigian as an executive assistant, and then as the director

of women's ministries. And she says that in 2014, she began noticing financial irregularities and

began asking questions. This led detention with

Tavigian, and then suddenly, Harding was fired, and to get any severance, Coral Ridge

required that Harding signed an NDA or non-disclosure agreement. Harding refused, and she got

nothing from Coral Ridge. But in 2015, news broke that Tevigian had been involved

in sexual misconduct with several congregants. The church fired Tevigian and the new pastor,

Rob Passienza, who had been involved in Harding's firing, came to her privately and apologized.

And this is where it gets interesting. Rob Passienza is still the senior pastor of

Coral Ridge and the CEO of D. James Kennedy Ministries. And he now says that that apology in 2015

was not an admittance that he or the church did anything wrong. And this is relevant because in

2001, Harding came back to Coral Ridge, seeking

a public apology and compensation for what had happened to her. But what she got was an offer

for the same severance as she had gotten from Tevigian in 2014, which again was tied to an

NDA, and Harding again refused. In this podcast, you'll hear Harding's

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