Leonardo Blair

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  Jun 2, 2023

  Ex Dave Ramsey followers sue him for more than $150M over endorsement of failed timeshare exit company

  Evangelical financial advisor and CEO Dave Ramsey is being sued by a group of his former followers for more than $150 million for allegedly deceiving thousands of listeners of his nationally syndicated radio show and podcast to invest millions of dollars into a failed timeshare exit company.

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  Jun 2, 2023

  Married youth pastor, former Compassion International volunteer recorded woman as she showered: police

  Daniel Kellan Mayfield, a married youth pastor at First Baptist Gowensville in Landrum, South Carolina, who states on LinkedIn that he's also an event coordinator for global Christian humanitarian aid agency Compassion International, has been fired from his role at the church after admitting to secretly recording a woman, who is not his wife, from her bathroom window as she showered.

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  Jun 2, 2023

  Pastor, son arrested for turning church into drug house

  A North Carolina pastor and his son were arrested Sunday for allegedly turning their church that had been shuttered since the COVID-19 pandemic into a drug house that manufactured marijuana with the intent to traffic the drug.

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  Jun 1, 2023

  Most Christians believe churches should provide counseling and care, but most pastors disagree: study

  While more than half of Christians and nearly 50% of the general population believe churches should be offering care and counseling to their communities, most pastors disagree, according to recent research from the Barna Group.

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  May 31, 2023

  Church associate arrested in shooting death of pastor's wife, councilwoman

  Nearly four months after Eunice Dwumfour, a pastor’s wife and Republican New Jersey councilwoman was gunned down in her car just outside her townhome in Sayreville, authorities announced that they have arrested and charged a 28-year-old Virginia man with her murder.

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  May 31, 2023

  Chick-fil-A accused of going ‘woke’ over addition of diversity and inclusion agenda

  Chick-fil-A, the leading fast-food chain that has shuttered its stores each Sunday to allow employees "to rest and worship if they choose" since 1946 and became a household name because of it, is now coming under fire over the company’s diversity, equity and inclusion agenda and Erick McReynolds, the black company executive driving it.

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  May 31, 2023

  11-month-old dies after parents left her in hot car to attend church: police

  Police in Palm Bay, Florida, are still investigating the death of an 11-month-old girl who died after she was left alone in a hot car for three hours as her parents attended a worship service at the Mount of Olives Evangelical Baptist Church, a small Southern Baptist congregation that is a member of the Florida Baptist Convention.

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  May 31, 2023

  Christian journalist Julie Roys wants megachurch founder James MacDonald to ‘stop hurting people’

  Harvest Bible Chapel founder James MacDonald has hurt a lot of people, says Christian investigative journalist Julie Roys, and she wants him to stop.

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  May 30, 2023

  Arizona Christian University students can now teach in public school district after lawsuit

  The five-member governing board of the Washington Elementary School District in Arizona, which includes three members of the LGBT community, has backtracked on their decision to ban Arizona Christian University student teachers from public school classrooms, because they practice biblical Christianity, as part of a settlement agreement for a religious discrimination lawsuit filed on behalf of the university..

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  May 27, 2023

  A taste of Turkey 'In the footsteps of St. Paul' could change the way you see the Bible

  While St. Paul faced significant challenges on his missionary travels across Asia Minor now known as the country Turkey, adventurous Christians looking to follow his footsteps and see the ruins of the early Church there can do so in relative comfort using modern transportation on well-kept highways as they experience a dizzying array of food and cultural offerings with signature Turkish hospitality along the way.