Leonardo Blair

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  Oct 21, 2024

  Pastor Matthew Queen pleads guilty to making false statement to DOJ, FBI

  Matthew Queen, a North Carolina pastor and former Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary evangelism professor and interim provost, has pleaded guilty to making a false statement to DOJ and FBI investigators.

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  Oct 17, 2024

  Craig family lost 11 members to mudslides, flood in wake of Hurricane Helene

  An area known as Craigtown in Buncombe County, North Carolina, that has been the home of the family of Jesse Craig for eight decades was turned into a graveyard by Hurricane Helene last month.

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  Oct 17, 2024

  Majority of Protestant pastors blame poor economy for negative impact on offerings: study

  A majority of Protestant pastors are blaming a poor economy for their struggling bottom lines after experiencing double-digit declines to zero improvement in financial offerings from churchgoers over the last year, data from a new study released by Lifeway Research show — but the sentiment is divided along political lines.

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  Oct 16, 2024

  Pastor Andy Savage criticized for minimizing sexual abuse of Jules Woodson as a ‘valley’

  Former Highpoint Church Teaching Pastor Andy Savage, who leads Grace Valley Church in Collierville, Tennessee, is facing criticism for allegedly minimizing his past sexual abuse of Jules Woodson as a “valley” on his church’s website as his victim speaks out about the abuse again in a new film titled "For Our Daughters."

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  Oct 15, 2024

  Second arrest of fired megachurch pastor involved intimate photos of friend’s wife

  Gabriel Mills, the recently fired guest experience pastor at the Kenosha, Wisconsin, campus of the multisite Journey Church who was arrested for allegedly sending himself nude photos of a female congregant, was arrested a second time for taking intimate photos of a friend’s wife without permission in 2023.

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  Oct 15, 2024

  Saddleback Church Pastor Andy Wood tells congregants to vote for the godlier candidate

  Saddleback Church Lead Pastor Andy Wood urged members across the megachurch’s 15 locations in Southern California to apply their faith and conscience and vote for the candidate whose life and policies “more closely align with the Word of God” come Election Day on Nov. 5.

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  Oct 15, 2024

  Alleged child sex abuse survivor of Gateway founder Robert Morris wants to ban NDAs that 'silence victims'

  Cindy Clemishire, the woman who alleges she was sexually abused by Gateway Church founder Robert Morris beginning when she was 12 years old in the 1980s, has asked Texas lawmakers to ban the silencing of victims through non-disclosure agreements and extend the statute of limitations on child sex abuse in the state.

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  Oct 14, 2024

  Kamala Harris hailed as ‘phenomenal servant of God’ as she speaks from Galatians 6 at NC megachurch

  Vice President Kamala Harris was hailed as a “phenomenal servant of God” Sunday by Bishop Rosie O'Neal, founder and senior pastor of Koinonia Christian Center Church in Greenville, North Carolina, moments before she encouraged congregants at the megachurch not to grow weary in well-doing from Galatians 6.

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  Oct 14, 2024

  Abyssinian Baptist Church congregants ask court to nullify election of new pastor

  Approximately two weeks after he was installed as the new senior pastor of the historic Abyssinian Baptist Church in New York City, a group of congregants at the more than 200-year-old renowned black Baptist Church have asked a judge to nullify the election of the Rev. Kevin R. Johnson.

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  Oct 14, 2024

  Christians who don’t vote are rebelling against God, says megachurch Pastor Josh Howerton

  As new research shows as many as 104 million people of faith, including 32 million self-identified Christians who regularly attend church, are unlikely to vote in the presidential election, Josh Howerton, senior pastor of the multi-site Lakepointe Church in Texas, has warned that Christians who choose not to vote will be in “passive rebellion” against God.