Earl Paulk and Bishop Eddie Long seem to have a lot more in common than the fact that they were both heads of a church.

A new report says that Earl Paulk was a spiritual mentor to Bishop Eddie Long as he was growing with the church. As for what “spiritual mentor” means, sources say that Paulk was like a father to Long in many ways.

Earl Paulk was the founder of the Cathedral at Chapel Hill, which was a large church in Decatur, Georgia, which is a suburb of Atlanta.

Like Paulk, Eddie Long is the current leader of the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Lithonia Georgia, also a suburb of Atlanta. Both men were highly looked up to by their congregations, and became nationally renown. Unfortunately both Paulk and Long also have been involved in sex scandals. Paulk was accused of molesting young girls and other women of his church, while Eddie Young has recently been accused of sexually abusing at least 4 young men who were members of his church.

It should be interesting to see the hit that Long’s reputation takes if he is proven to be guilty of these recent allegations. Earl Paulk’s demise followed the accusations as did his church.