Leonardo Blair

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  May 20, 2022

  Missouri church cuts ties with Kanakuk Kamps, urges others to do same over sex abuse

  John King, senior pastor of First Baptist Church in West Plains, Missouri, has announced that his church has cut ties with the popular network of Christian sports camps called Kanakuk Kamps and is urging other churches to do the same until they publicly confess that they lied about when they first learned about the sex abuse of campers.

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  May 20, 2022

  Willow Creek announces staff cuts as pandemic ravages giving, church attendance

  The suburban Chicago megachurch, Willow Creek Community Church, has announced over $6.5 million in cuts to its staff budget due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on giving. The multi-campus church reduced its staff budget from over 70% to 52% of the church's overall budget in 2023.

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  May 20, 2022

  Worship leader Scott Box shares how faith is helping him beat bipolar disorder in book ‘Heroic Disgrace’

  In the foreword to worship leader Scott Box’s new book, "Heroic Disgrace," his cousin, Brian “Head” Welch, who co-founded the Grammy Award-winning band Korn, calls it “one of the best stories I’ve read in a long time.”

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  May 19, 2022

  Pastor JD Hall arrested for DUI hours after threatening to disrupt SBC annual meeting

  Fellowship Baptist Church in Sidney, Montana, declared Monday that it has rejected an offer from Pastor Jordan Daniel “J.D.” Hall to resign following a recent arrest on weapons and DUI charges which they attributed to a vitamin D deficiency.

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  May 18, 2022

  Having 3 or more children negatively impacts late-life cognition: study

  While recent research has warned of the potential drawbacks of America's declining fertility rate, a new study has found that having three or more children negatively affects late-life cognition.

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  May 17, 2022

  Family, church grieve missionary killed in Buffalo race massacre as community remembers victims

  The family and church community of 86-year-old missionary Ruth Whitfield killed in Saturday's racially-motivated massacre in Buffalo, New York, is grieving her as a strong woman of faith who was the glue of her close Christian family.

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  May 16, 2022

  Pastor Tony Spell plans to file suit over arrests after court win

  Two days after the Supreme Court of Louisiana found that Gov. John Bel Edwards' stay-at-home order during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic was unconstitutional and violated the religious freedom of Pastor Tony Spell of Life Tabernacle announced that he would be filing a lawsuit for his wrongful arrests.

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  May 16, 2022

  Buffalo pastor says white peers who won’t stand against white supremacy can ‘go to Hell’

  A prominent black pastor in Buffalo, New York, said his white peers who refuse to stand against white supremacy in their pulpits could “go to hell” with the alleged mass murderer accused of executing 10 mostly black people in the name of white supremacy as they shopped at Tops Friendly Markets on Saturday.

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  May 12, 2022

  After girl, 3, dies in botched exorcism at Pentecostal church, ritual takes spotlight

  Officials at a small Pentecostal church in San Jose, California, confirmed that a 3-year-old girl died within their walls last September after undergoing a botched exorcism, bringing a renewed spotlight on the practice of expelling demons from individuals believed to be possessed.

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  May 11, 2022

  Evangelical Lutheran Church short ‘at least 600’ pastors as many step away from ministry amid pandemic

  Since their former Pastor Darren Paulson resigned last September as the COVID-19 pandemic raged into its second year, congregants of Atonement Lutheran Church in Billing Heights, Montana, have been waiting patiently for their local synod to replace him.