Leonardo Blair

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  May 2, 2022

  Christian college accused of banning student for having premarital sex after she reported rape

  Mara Louk, a former student of Visible Music College, has alleged that the small conservative Christian school in Tennessee banned her from campus for having premarital sex after she reported she was choked and raped by another student last November a complaint filed with the U.S. Department of Education on Wednesday reveals.

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  Apr 29, 2022

  Stronger relationships with God make consumers less likely to buy self-help products, study suggests

  While the $10 billion self-help industry is expected to increase to $14 billion by 2025, a new study from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business suggests that consumers who have a strong relationship with God are less likely to spend money in that market.

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  Apr 28, 2022

  Hours after baptism, Florida teen is shot dead in church clothes protecting friend

  Just hours after he got baptized at The Rock Church of Fort Myers in Florida on Sunday, 16-year-old high school student De’mari Jackson was shot dead in his church clothes as he protected a friend from a fight between two groups of teenage girls.

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  Apr 28, 2022

  Parents of preteens in ‘spiritual state of distress’ as adherence to biblical Christianity fades: study

  Parents of preteens, children younger than 13, “are in a state of spiritual distress” as American adherence to biblical Christianity fades even in churches, and a "tragic crash” is coming as a result of the situation, according to new data from the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University and the American Worldview Inventory 2022.

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  Apr 27, 2022

  Jemar Tisby chides Grove City College for calling his invitation to speak in chapel 'a mistake'

  Jemar Tisby, a well-known Christian author and president of The Witness, a multimedia platform about race, religion, politics and culture, chided leaders of Grove City College in Pennsylvania for calling a decision to allow him to speak in the school’s chapel about race in 2020 “a mistake.”

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  Apr 26, 2022

  Celebration Church report paints founders Stovall and Kerri Weems as abusive, mentally troubled

  An internal report recently released by the 12,000-member Celebration Church in Jacksonville, Florida, paints founding Pastor Stovall Weems and his wife, Kerri, as abusive, mentally troubled divas who constantly exploited church staff and finances until they were forced to resign from all their positions in the church earlier this month.

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  Apr 25, 2022

  Youth pastor arrested for sending nude pictures to underage girl

  Christopher Jaime Reyes, a former youth pastor at Wesley United Methodist Church on Marco Island, Florida, has been arrested for sending nudes pictures and lewd messages to an underage girl on social media.

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  Apr 25, 2022

  Pastor David E. Taylor’s church buys $8.3 million mansion from Tampa Bay Buccaneers co-owner

  The Kingdom of God Global Church in Michigan run by Pastor David E. Taylor of Joshua Media Ministries International  who was once deposed for corruption has purchased an $8.3 million mansion in Tampa, Florida, from Tampa Bay Buccaneers co-owner Darcie Glazer Kassewitz and her husband.

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  Apr 23, 2022

  ‘The pandemic killed us': Church running since 1848 to hold final service Sunday

  After declining for years, the First Presbyterian Church of Des Moines in Iowa, which has been in operation since 1848, will gather for its final collective hallelujah on Sunday, unable to rebound after the COVID-19 pandemic. 

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  Apr 22, 2022

  Hillsong exec. called Brian Houston’s explanation after visiting woman’s hotel room ‘dribble’: report

  A high-level Hillsong Church executive has criticized the global church network's handling of the founder Brian Houston's misconduct that eventually led to his resignation, saying the explanation for him visiting a woman's hotel room in 2019 was “dribble."