Leonardo Blair

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  Feb 13, 2020

  Utah Senate committee approves bill to decriminalize polygamy

  An estimated 30,000 people who live in Utah’s polygamous communities could soon be free from criminal prosecution as members of the state Senate’s Judiciary, Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Committee unanimously approved a bill Monday to decriminalize polygamy between consenting adults.

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  Feb 13, 2020

  Church secretary accused of stealing nearly $600K to pay for car, wedding, thousands of online purchases

  A volunteer church secretary from New Jersey was arrested Tuesday after she was accused of bilking a local Baptist church of nearly $600,000 to pay for her car, rent, wedding and thousands of online purchases made through Paypal and Amazon.

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  Feb 13, 2020

  Former pastor fatally shoots himself, wife and son also found dead

  Police in Sugar Land, Texas, are investigating the death of Richard Logan, a former pastor and CEO of faith-based anti-poverty nonprofit Attack Poverty, who was found with a self-inflicted gunshot wound Tuesday, while his wife and son were also found shot dead in the family's home.

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  Feb 13, 2020

  Hookers for Jesus ‘trusting God’ after whistleblower complaint about human-trafficking grant from DOJ

  Hookers for Jesus says it is “trusting God” after a whistleblower complaint named the group as one of two lesser qualified organizations that received more than $1 million in funding from a U.S. Justice Department anti-human trafficking grant program over other organizations.

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  Feb 12, 2020

  Pastors worry most about reaching next generation in local churches, study shows

  Just over a week after leaders of a Minnesota church were accused of trying to get rid of older adult members from one of their campuses in an effort to attract a younger crowd, a new study from Barna suggests reaching the next generation is one of the biggest problems pastors in local churches worry about today.

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  Feb 12, 2020

  SBC pastors threaten boycott over inclusion of female teaching pastor Hosanna Wong at conference

  Organizers of the Southern Baptist Convention's Pastors' Conference are facing backlash from some SBC pastors who've reportedly threatened to boycott the conference over the inclusion of female teaching pastor and spoken word artist Hosanna Wong in the lineup of featured guests.

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  Feb 11, 2020

  White ‘black metal’ musician says he torched historically black churches to raise profile

  Holden Matthews, the 22-year-old son of a sheriff's deputy with alleged ties to Satanism, who was charged last year with torching three historically black churches in Louisiana pleaded guilty to his crimes Monday and confessed that he was trying to raise his profile as a “black metal” musician.

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  Feb 11, 2020

  Jackson State University President William B Bynum Jr arrested in prostitution sting

  William B. Bynum Jr., the president of Jackson State University in Mississippi, resigned effective immediately Monday after his arrest over the weekend at a Clinton hotel on charges of procuring the services of a prostitute, giving a false statement of identity, and possession of marijuana.

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  Feb 11, 2020

  Perry Noble says Christian celebrity life left him ‘empty’ as he seeks to expand new church

  South Carolina preacher Perry Noble revealed that the celebrity Christian life left him “empty” as he announced that he is looking to expand his congregation into a 28,000-square-foot building just a year after launching Second Chance Church.

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  Feb 10, 2020

  Sleeping in separate beds could help married couples with relationship, experts say

  It’s been a longstanding tradition of the English upper class and recent studies show almost one in four married couples already do it; now some mental health experts say sleeping in separate beds could help couples improve their relationship as more people seem open to the practice for a variety of reasons.