Leonardo Blair

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  Dec 29, 2020

  Pastor, sister and mother killed by COVID-19 in 1 week as virus sweeps rural America

  An Indiana pastor, his sister and elderly mother all recently died from the new coronavirus over the course of a week as new data shows the brunt of the devastation from the virus shifting toward rural and less densely populated parts of the United States.

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  Dec 28, 2020

  7-y-o saves toddler sister from burning home after mom says God woke her up

  A Tennessee mother is thanking God and her heroic 7-year-old son, who risked his life to save his toddler sister from their burning home earlier this month.

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  Dec 28, 2020

  Alabama pastor dies from COVID-19 despite following health protocols, church says

  An Alabama pastor, who urged his congregants to be a part of the solution and not a part of the problem as the coronavirus pandemic unfolded in March, is now being mourned by his family and church after he died from the virus Saturday.

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  Dec 28, 2020

  7 things to know about the newly signed stimulus package

  Days after calling a $1.4 trillion omnibus spending package and a $900 billion COVID-19 relief bill a “disgrace,” and threatening not to sign it unless changes were made, President Donald Trump signed it into law Sunday.

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  Dec 25, 2020

  What global churches did when their governments said they couldn’t have large gatherings

  The evidence is anecdotal, but the lesson from the reaction of some of the world’s poorest Christians to hunger and government restrictions on large gatherings amid the coronavirus pandemic is a powerful one for their American counterparts, says Janice Rosser Allen, CEO and president of the global church planting ministry ICM.

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  Dec 24, 2020

  Alleged former lover of Pastor Jamal Bryant speaks out after he's accused of ‘egregious sexual conduct’

  A woman who alleges she had a years-long intermittent sexual relationship with Pastor Jamal Bryant of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Stonecrest, Georgia, is suggesting that he be removed from the pulpit because he is not fit to be a spiritual leader.

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  Dec 23, 2020

  Adam Greenway calls criticisms of seminary council’s statement on CRT emotional misunderstandings

  Adam W. Greenway, president of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and one of six members of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Council of Seminary Presidents has defended the group’s controversial statement on critical race theory and intersectionality dismissing much of the criticism around it as emotional misunderstandings.

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  Dec 22, 2020

  TD Jakes, black Christians mourn passing of iconic woman preacher Iona Locke

  “If you black and in church you know her,” popular online media personality and former pastor, Larry Reid, declared to his audience as he processed the passing of iconic woman preacher and gospel singer Bishop Iona Locke on Friday. She was 72.

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  Dec 22, 2020

  Hillsong says church took action after claims of ‘inappropriate’ sex between NYC staff and volunteers

  The U.S. branch of the charismatic Hillsong Church, headquartered in Australia, said officials investigated and took action on a 2018 letter of complaint alleging inappropriate sexual relations between staff and volunteers at the Hillsong NYC location but not all the allegations made in the letter were accurate.

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  Dec 21, 2020

  Fred Luter, JD Greear speak out as prominent black pastors flee SBC over CRT dispute

  Fred Luter, the Southern Baptist Convention’s first and only black president, along with current leader J.D. Greear have joined a growing chorus of dissent over a statement from the denomination’s Council of Seminary Presidents denouncing racism and critical race theory.