Facebook critic will return to the pulpit

NEPTUNE, N.J. - The New Jersey pastor who said Facebook can lead to adultery will return to his post after a 90-day sabbatical.

The decision regarding the Rev. Cedric Miller's status with the Living Word Christian Fellowship Church in Neptune was announced Sunday during a church service.

Miller announced earlier this week that he would be "taking some time off." That came after his admission that he had had a three-way sexual relationship several years ago.

Church leaders had not commented publicly on his status until Sunday.

An associate pastor, Linda Parreott, said church leaders gave Miller a vote of confidence as the church's spiritual leader during a meeting last Monday. But they also requested that he take a 90-day leave with his family.

Miller has said that he adopted his anti-Facebook stance after listening to parishioners who came to him for marital counseling.

In the last six months, 20 couples who sought counseling from Miller cited the social-networking website as an issue, Miller told the Philadelphia Daily News in an interview earlier this month.

"Most of the time, a lot of people get on Facebook quite innocently. You are not looking for anybody. It doesn't mean that someone won't find you," Miller said in the interview. "If it's an ex, the person you are with is not going to see anything innocent about it."

Miller's past three-way relationship, reportedly with his wife and a male church assistant, was described by the Asbury Park Press, citing the minister's testimony in a criminal case in 2003.