Leonardo Blair

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  Oct 10, 2022

  Christian nationalism will lead to Christian persecution, SBC President Bart Barber warns

  Southern Baptist Convention President Bart Barber has condemned the idea that the church should be running the government and warned advocates of Christian nationalism that pursuing such an agenda will result in the persecution of Christians.

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  Oct 7, 2022

  Former coach at Christian college accused of sex abuse, doping students

  Huntington University, a private Christian university in Indiana, has placed cross country coach Lauren Johnson and her assistant, Curtis Hines, on leave after two former runners accused their former coach and her husband, Nicholas, of sexual assault and potential doping violations.

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  Oct 5, 2022

  Texas megachurch repents for not involving women in decision-making after abuse of 14 girls by ex-pastor

  The 15-member all male elder board of Denton Bible Church in Denton, Texas, has admitted that they failed to prevent the sexual abuse of at least 14 girls by a former youth pastor, by  not involving women leaders in the church when evaluating abuse allegations and caring for the victims among other things.

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  Oct 4, 2022

  Judge dismisses Pastor Stovall and Kerri Weems’ defamation lawsuit against Celebration Church

  Ruling that the court does not have jurisdiction over ecclesiastical matters, a Florida judge has dismissed a defamation lawsuit filed by Pastor Stovall Weems and his wife Kerri against leaders of the 12,000-member Celebration Church in Jacksonville they allege ousted them from the church in a “coup” earlier this year.

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  Oct 3, 2022

  7-year-old boy shot on way to church in Chicago, mother wants shooter in ‘jail for life’

  The mother of a 7-year-old boy who was hospitalized after he was shot on his way to church in Chicago on Sunday morning has called for her son’s attacker to be locked in “jail for life” after police apprehended a suspect in the brazen daylight shooting.

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  Oct 3, 2022

  Grateful to be alive, Christians gather for worship in Fort Myers after surviving Hurricane Ian

  Four days after Hurricane Ian made landfall in Florida as a powerful Category 4 storm, wreaking billions of dollars in damage and leaving at least 80 people dead, members of the Southwest Baptist Church in Fort Myers gathered at their battered sanctuary on Sunday to thank God for sparing their lives.

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  Sep 23, 2022

  Ex-con Christian businessman who said God inspired him to build tiny homes is sued for fraud

  A Christian tiny home developer is being sued by would-be tiny homeowners after he collected thousands of dollars in payments but failed to build their tiny homes.

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  Sep 22, 2022

  Mark Driscoll temporarily suspended from TikTok for saying ‘men can’t have babies’

  Mark Driscoll, the outspoken Senior Pastor of  Trinity Church in Scottsdale, Arizona, says he was briefly suspended from the popular short-form video hosting service TikTok for declaring on the platform that “men can’t have babies.”

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  Sep 21, 2022

  President Biden's declaration that ‘pandemic is over’ divides health experts

  President Joe Biden’s recent declaration that the COVID-19 “pandemic is over” has sparked a divided reaction among health experts who say the disease is likely to remain a leading cause of death in the U.S. indefinitely.

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  Sep 21, 2022

  Founder of Grace College’s music department abused at least 100 boys over decades, whistleblowers allege

  To the outside world, Don Ogden, founder of the music department at Grace College & Seminary in Winona Lake, Indiana, was a charismatic and beloved Christian leader, husband and father. Ogden’s adult daughters, Diane and Kathleen, said they discovered in February 2021 that, along with his legacy in music, their father left behind an estimated 100 to 200 male victims of his predation.