Leonardo Blair

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  Oct 23, 2019

  Pastor arrested for allegedly killing estranged wife in front of neighbors, grandchildren

  A Bronx pastor who allegedly ran over his estranged wife with her car then chopped her repeatedly with a machete as her neighbors and grandchildren watched in horror was arrested and charged Tuesday with her murder.

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  Oct 23, 2019

  Young people who leave church no longer returning as they get older, new research shows

  While pastors have long banked on social science showing that young people who leave church generally return when they're older, a recent analysis of that trend suggests it might be over.

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  Oct 22, 2019

  Jimmy Carter hurt in fall, fracturing pelvis; suffers third fall in recent months

  Just two weeks after a fall at his home in Plains, Georgia, left him with a black eye and 14 stitches, America’s oldest living former President, Jimmy Carter, was hospitalized Monday after another fall that left him with a “minor pelvic fracture.” It's his third fall in recent months.

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  Oct 22, 2019

  ‘Real Christianity’: One pastor's profound take on what it means to be a true Christian

  In Real Christianity: How to Be Bold for Christ In a Culture of Darkness, author and pastor Dale Partridge offers a sober, concise and profound reminder of the biblical characteristics and requirements of a Christian and challenges  modern-day believers to see how they measure up.

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  Oct 21, 2019

  John MacArthur skewers Beth Moore, Paula White, evangelicals who support women preachers

  Lamenting what he sees as a heretical “plunge” away from biblical order, Pastor John MacArthur of Grace Community Church skewered popular Bible teacher Beth Moore, Paula White and evangelicals who support the idea of women preachers in general.

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  Oct 20, 2019

  Pastors of larger churches more likely to prioritize counseling and discipleship, new study says

  While a majority of Protestant pastors prioritize counseling and discipleship among their ministry meetings, pastors of larger churches are more likely to invest in these meetings according to the results of a new study by Lifeway Research.

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  Oct 19, 2019

  Could this faith-based nonprofit lower divorce rates across the country?

  A faith-based nonprofit in Virginia that uses data tools to help churches build more effective relationship ministries could have already helped  drive down divorce rates in Florida’s most populous city.

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  Oct 18, 2019

  Americans are turning away from church as population of Christians decline, Pew study claims

  Only 65 percent of Americans now identify as Christian reflecting a 12 percent decline in the last 10 years while the ranks of Americans who identify as religiously unaffiliated swelled to 26 percent reflecting a 10 percent jump over the same period a new study from the Pew Research Center says.

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  Oct 18, 2019

  At the church he loved in life, those who loved congressman Elijah Cummings will say goodbye in death

  For nearly 40 years, the late Democratic congressman from Maryland, Elijah E. Cummings, worshiped at the New Psalmist Baptist Church in Baltimore. And his longtime pastor, Bishop Walter Thomas, says he could always count on him “being in church” as long as he wasn’t working elsewhere.

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  Oct 17, 2019

  Black leaders reject calls for ‘healing’ after Atatiana Jefferson killing until city changes policing

  Black faith leaders in Fort Worth, Texas, where a 28-year-old black woman was shot dead in her home by a white police officer through her window say there can be “no healing” from the tragedy until the city addresses concerns about the way black and brown communities are policed.