Leonardo Blair

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  Dec 18, 2020

  Black Texas megachurch pastor cuts ties with SBC over seminary presidents’ statement on CRT

  The Rev. Ralph West, founder and senior pastor of The Church Without Walls in Houston, Texas, says he is cutting ties with the Southern Baptist Convention over a recent statement from the denomination’s Council of Seminary Presidents denouncing critical race theory and intersectionality as incompatible with their beliefs.

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  Dec 18, 2020

  Fake ASLAN Int'l Ministry received $8.4M in PPP funds, federal authorities say

  A family-run religious ministry in Florida that claimed to have 486 employees and received $8.4 million through the federal government’s multibillion dollar coronavirus relief program for small businesses, has been found to be a fake operation, authorities say.

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  Dec 17, 2020

  SBC wants to scrap resolution on critical race theory, Pastor Dwight McKissic says

  Prominent Southern Baptist Convention Pastor Dwight McKissic Sr. has retracted his support of a controversial statement from SBC seminary heads that denounced racism and critical race theory. He believes the denomination could use it to rescind a CRT resolution it had approved earlier.

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  Dec 16, 2020

  Paula White joins Ivanka Trump to distribute hundreds of food boxes at Virginia church

  President Donald Trump’s spiritual adviser, Paula White, joined his daughter and senior adviser, Ivanka Trump, at a Virginia church Monday to hand out hundreds for boxes of food to families in need under the USDA Farmers to Families Food Box program.

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  Dec 15, 2020

  Pastor serving life in prison for trafficking teen girl seeks compassionate release due to COVID-19

  An Ohio pastor sentenced to life in prison last year for grooming a teenage girl to have sex with him and two other pastors is seeking compassionate release from prison by claiming his life is threatened by the coronavirus.

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  Dec 15, 2020

  6 white seminary presidents meeting to discuss race is bad optics: black SBC leader

  The head of the National African American Fellowship of the Southern Baptist Convention says he will soon meet with the leaders of the denomination’s most prominent seminaries to “discuss our concerns” regarding their recent statement denouncing racism but declaring critical race theory incompatible with their beliefs.

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  Dec 15, 2020

  Beth Moore draws flak and praise after warning Christians against ‘dangerous’ Trumpism

  Popular evangelical Bible teacher Beth Moore is drawing both flak and praise after delivering a stern warning to Christians against Trumpism, which she called “astonishingly seductive & dangerous.”

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  Dec 14, 2020

  Transformation Church gives away $3.5M in house, cars, cash to bless those in need

  Pastor Michael Todd of Transformation Church in Bixby, Oklahoma, led his congregation in a $3.5 million one-day blessings spree Sunday in which they helped scores of human service organizations, churches and individuals, including one needy family that received a new car and $250,000 to purchase a home.

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  Dec 14, 2020

  Bible-toting gunman killed after shooting at Christmas carol event outside NY church

  A Bible-toting gunman who opened fire at an open air a cappella Christmas choral event, held at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in Manhattan, was shot dead by police on Sunday after shouting “Kill me!” according to eyewitnesses.

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  Dec 13, 2020

  Actor Kel Mitchell says he felt the ‘call’ to be a pastor ‘all through my life’

  Before actor and comedian Kel Mitchell decided to surrender to the “call” he felt “all through my life” to become a pastor, he worried that perhaps he would have had to sacrifice his secular calling.