Leonardo Blair

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  Sep 26, 2023

  McLean Bible Church begins voting to affirm Mike Kelsey as a lead pastor

  Though he was previously named as a lead pastor of David Platt’s McLean Bible Church in Virginia, members of the church now have until Wednesday to cast their vote to affirm longtime pastor of the multi-campus congregation, Mike Kelsey, in that role due to recent changes in the church’s constitution.

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  Sep 25, 2023

  Jerry Falwell Jr. accuses Liberty University leaders of financial, sexual misconduct in lawsuit

  Former Liberty University president and chancellor Jerry Falwell Jr. has accused multiple past and current members of the Evangelical Christian university's senior leadership team of sexual misconduct and self-dealing in an amended lawsuit. 

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  Sep 25, 2023

  Traveling Tennessee pastor, father of 6 arrested for alleged child rape; wife charged with facilitating abuse

  A traveling Tennessee pastor and father of six who recently raised thousands of dollars online to help purchase a vehicle to carry his ministry across the country has been arrested and charged with several counts of child rape, while his wife has been charged with facilitating his abuse.

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  Sep 22, 2023

  Man who survived being shot by gunmen while taking out trash says ‘God was with me’

  A 42-year-old recently married father who was shot as he took out the trash while cleaning his home in Norcross, Georgia, is thanking God for helping him escape with his life.

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  Sep 21, 2023

  Thousands protest church’s decision to block granny from being buried in cemetery over tithes

  A Virginia pastor is facing protest from thousands of online supporters of a late longtime member and grandmother of his congregation who he allegedly blocked from being buried in the church’s cemetery with many of her departed family members due to a dispute over tithes.

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  Sep 21, 2023

  SBC Exec. Committee expels church after pastor defends blackface impression of Ray Charles

  Five months after Pastor Sherman Jaquess of Matoaka Baptist Church in Ochelata, Oklahoma, defended his decisions to wear blackface mimicking legendary singer Ray Charles and dress like Native American figure Pocahontas, the Southern Baptist Convention's Executive Committee has expelled his church from the nation's largest Protestant denomination.

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  Sep 20, 2023

  Family of 4 found murdered with 3 dogs in home they ‘just bought’; police say they were targeted

  A family of four found gunned down with their three dogs inside their home, which a family member said they had “just bought” in Romeoville, Illinois, was a targeted attack, the Romeoville Police Department said.

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  Sep 20, 2023

  Temple University Acting President JoAnne A. Epps dies after collapsing at memorial service

  Temple University Acting President JoAnne A. Epps died Tuesday after collapsing during a memorial service on the campus of the public research university in Philadelphia, the university announced. She was 72.

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  Sep 20, 2023

  Pastor sues for $1.5M after he's defrocked for infidelity he confessed to colleague

  Anthony Stephens, a married former pastor of Our Savior Lutheran Church in Croton-on-Hudson who is also a licensed mental health counselor and attorney, has filed a lawsuit against the Metropolitan New York Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America after he was defrocked following what he argues is a protected confession of infidelity to a colleague minister.

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  Sep 19, 2023

  Divided church in Alaskan city with bitter winters nixes cold weather shelter for the homeless

  After opening their doors for two years to help a growing population of homeless people find emergency shelter during dangerously cold periods of the year, the small congregation of Resurrection Lutheran Church in Alaska’s capital, Juneau, voted not once but twice against using their property to help keep the homeless warm.