Leonardo Blair

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  Apr 22, 2022

  Former Christian school teacher will serve no jail time for sexual relationship with female student

  A former teacher at Richmond Christian School in Chesterfield, Virginia, who was convicted of having a sexual relationship with a female student will serve no jail time thanks to a plea agreement that suspended four consecutive 12-month terms for her crime.

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  Apr 22, 2022

  Most pastors believe all Christians should make disciples, but majority disagree: study

  While a majority of pastors agree that every disciple of Jesus Christ is mandated in Scripture to “go and make disciples” as part of the Great Commission in Matthew 28:19–20, most Christians believe this mandate only applies to some disciples, not all, a new study from Barna shows.

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  Apr 21, 2022

  Canada’s first national indigenous Anglican archbishop resigns over sexual misconduct

  Mark MacDonald, Canada’s first national indigenous Anglican archbishop, resigned from his post over “acknowledged sexual misconduct,” the church announced Wednesday.

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  Apr 21, 2022

  Cost of Guidepost report on SBC leaders’ alleged mishandling of sexual abuse exceeds $1.7M

  A Guidepost Solutions report on an investigation of the alleged mishandling of a “crisis of sexual abuse” by leaders in the Southern Baptist Convention set to be released before the annual meeting of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination in Anaheim, California, in June, has already exceeded more than $1.7 million in costs.

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  Apr 20, 2022

  Pastor’s wife pleads guilty to asking lover to murder husband, explains why

  Kristie Evans, the 48-year-old widow of David Charles Evans who led the Harmony Freewill Baptist Church in Oklahoma before he was found dead in his home in March 2021, has pleaded guilty to asking her lover to murder him and now wants the public to know why.

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  Apr 19, 2022

  Pastor Stovall Weems steps down from Celebration Church after filing lawsuit

  Nearly two months after filing a lawsuit over who controls the 12,000-member Celebration Church in Jacksonville, Florida, founding pastor Stovall Weems announced Monday that he has resigned from every role he had with the church but will continue to pursue legal action against the church’s board of trustees and officers.

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  Apr 19, 2022

  Former Hillsong Boston Pastor Josh Kimes allegedly admitted to writing racist text to colleagues

  Just months after taking the helm of Hillsong Boston in 2020, Pastor Josh Kimes, who recently resigned from the church with his wife, Leona, without stating a reason, admitted in a deposition summarized by lawyers hired by Hillsong Church that he once wrote a racist text to church colleagues but later apologized.

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  Apr 14, 2022

  Parents of 5-y-o girl sexually assaulted on Palm Sunday at Sunday school settle with church

  The parents of a young girl who was sexually assaulted on Palm Sunday 2017 during a Sunday school session at the First Presbyterian Church of Plymouth in Michigan when she was 5 say they have reached a confidential settlement with the church.

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  Apr 13, 2022

  NYC subway shooter still on the run as Mayor Eric Adams blames nation’s gun laws for ‘cult of death’

  A gunman who opened fire causing multiple injuries and mayhem on a packed Manhattan-bound train in Brooklyn on Tuesday morning was still on the run Wednesday as New York City Mayor Eric Adams vowed to capture him while describing the attack as part of a national “cult of death.”  

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  Apr 11, 2022

  US suffers fall in life expectancy not seen since World War II

  Despite spending more per capita on healthcare than any other country in the world, the life expectancy of Americans has fallen by more than two years since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.