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  Apr 5, 2021

  Pastor Greg Locke tells congregants ‘take them stupid masks off’ during Easter service

  Despite federal guidance urging the wearing of masks to control the spread of COVID-19, popular internet personality Greg Locke, who leads the Global Vision Bible Church in Tennessee, mocked some of his congregants for following that advice “like sheep” on Easter Sunday before telling them to “take them stupid masks off!”

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  Apr 5, 2021

  Inc. Magazine drops Dave Ramsey’s company from ‘Best Workplaces’ list amid lawsuit

  Editorial leaders at the New York City-based Inc. Magazine have axed evangelical financial guru Dave Ramsey’s Ramsey Solutions from its “2020 Best Workplaces” list after the company revealed in court documents connected to an ongoing lawsuit that a pregnant employee was fired for having premarital sex.

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  Apr 2, 2021

  Voddie Baucham suffers recovery setback, will have coronary bypass surgery Saturday

  Weeks after undergoing a surgical procedure to treat his heart failure at the Mayo Clinic in Florida with high hopes of making a “full recovery,’ prominent Southern Baptist preacher Voddie Baucham Jr., has suffered a setback and is now set to undergo coronary bypass surgery Saturday, The Christian Post has learned.

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  Apr 2, 2021

  Diverse congregations in white neighborhoods have higher attendance: study

  Bucking findings from previous research showing multiracial congregations to be “less stable,” a new study has found that racially diverse Methodist churches, particularly those in white neighborhoods, attract higher attendance compared to homogenous congregations in those same neighborhoods.

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  Apr 1, 2021

  Evangelical billionaire benefactor Bill Hwang's wealth wiped out in Wall Street disaster

  The evangelical community could lose one of their biggest benefactors after Bill Hwang, a devout Christian and founder of the more than $10 billion Archegos Capital Management investment firm triggered the liquidation of positions approaching $30 billion in value, and tanked the shares of two major investment banks.

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  Mar 31, 2021

  Evangelical CEO Dave Ramsey’s company fired employees who had premarital sex

  Months after a former employee alleged in a lawsuit that she was fired by evangelical CEO Dave Ramsey’s Ramsey Solutions after becoming pregnant, the company’s lawyers responded in a recent court filing that she was fired for having premarital sex and so were multiple others.

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  Mar 31, 2021

  Christian woman says she asked God to stop deadly Alabama tornado and He did

  As a deadly tornado tore through parts of Alabama last Thursday, demolishing property and taking lives, a devout Catholic woman who sought refuge in a basement closet inside her now destroyed home said she asked God to stop the tornado and it did.

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  Mar 30, 2021

  Fewer than 50% of Americans have formal church membership for first time in 80 years: Gallup

  While America remains a highly religious nation with seven in 10 claiming affiliation with some kind of organized religion, for the first time in nearly 80 years, fewer than half of them now say they have formal membership in a specific house of worship according to a new Gallup analysis.

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  Mar 30, 2021

  Florida will face God’s judgement over voting bill, black pastors say

  Calling it a shameless example of voter suppression rooted in systemic racism, a coalition of black pastors in Florida has blasted bill, which would among other things, eliminate ballot drop boxes and require proof of identification to vote absentee.

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  Mar 29, 2021

  Court docs show slain pastor’s widow slept with alleged killer while he was on mission trip

  Harmony Free Will Baptist Church in Ada, Oklahoma, grieved in fresh shock Friday as investigators alleged their late pastor, David Charles Evans, was a swinger and his widow confessed to plotting his murder with a man she spent three nights with while he was in Mexico on a mission trip.