Leonardo Blair

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  Dec 1, 2023

  Wife of Sam Collier, Hillsong’s first black lead pastor, announces divorce amid allegations of infidelity

  Former Hillsong Atlanta Pastor Sam Collier, who served as Hillsong Church’s first black lead pastor before stepping down early last year as a wave of scandals embroiled the denomination, appears to be headed for a divorce from his wife, Toni.

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  Nov 29, 2023

  No arrests yet after pastor is shot dead in front of 100 witnesses

  Nearly six months after Pastor Jonathan Frazier of Roam Ministry in Orlando, Florida, was shot dead in front of nearly 100 people during an event at his church that he also operated as a banquet hall, police are yet to arrest a suspect and his family is frustrated.

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  Nov 29, 2023

  Pastor of historic Georgia church charged with possession of mushrooms, MDMA, other drugs

  Officials at the historic St. John Baptist Church in Savannah, Georgia, remained tight-lipped Wednesday about the recent arrest of their pastor for possession of controlled substances and the use of drug-related objects during a traffic stop on U.S. Highway 80.

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  Nov 29, 2023

  Carlton Pearson’s life to be celebrated at multiple churches including Transformation Church

  Despite being ostracized in life by many traditional churches after he rejected the orthodox idea of Hell at the height of his work as a pastor, multiple churches, including Transformation Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma, will celebrate the life of former megachurch Pastor Bishop Carlton Pearson, who died on Nov. 19 after a brief battle with cancer.

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  Nov 29, 2023

  This is how much money a majority of Americans say can buy their happiness

  In her 2007 book The How of Happiness Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Riverside, Sonja Lyubomirsky describes happiness as “the experience of joy, contentment, or positive well-being, combined with a sense that one’s life is good, meaningful, and worthwhile.” And there is a set amount of money that a majority of Americans believe can buy them just that a new study shows.

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  Nov 29, 2023

  Christian university fires renowned theologian for inappropriate behavior

  Crandall University,  a Baptist Christian liberal arts school located in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada, has fired renowned religion scholar John G. Stackhouse Jr., following a six-month investigation that found he engaged in inappropriate behavior with colleagues and students.

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  Nov 28, 2023

  Pastor and wife hold on to faith as both are struck with deadly cancers

  After spending years trying to fight Follicular Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, Cory Schibler, the worship pastor at Beacon Baptist Church in Bryan, Texas, is now facing a deadly mutation of the cancer as his wife, Crystal, now grapples with a grave cancer diagnosis of her own.

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  Nov 24, 2023

  Baptist pastor, Christian college president apologizes for allowing male speaker with long hair

  Pastor John Wilkerson of First Baptist Church of Hammond in Indiana, who also serves as president of Hyles-Anderson College apologized to church members after he was criticized for allowing a man from a local creationist group to address the church and school while sporting hair they considered too long and quoting Scripture from the NIV translation of the Bible.

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  Nov 22, 2023

  Investigative firm GRACE says IHOPKC never contacted them about Mike Bickle allegations

  The Virginia-based organization GRACE, founded by attorney Boz Tchividjian, has shot down claims made by leaders of the International House of Prayer Kansas City that they made multiple attempts to contact the organization about investigating sexual abuse allegations against their founder Mike Bickle.

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  Nov 22, 2023

  Michael Voris, founder and president of Church Militant, resigns after breaking ‘morality clause’

  Michael Voris, president and founder of Saint Michael's Media, which operates as a news website in Michigan under the officially registered name of Church Militant, has resigned for breaching the organization’s “morality clause.”