Leonardo Blair

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  May 12, 2023

  America under threat from syncretism, George Barna says in study; churches urged to respond

  While the World Health Organization has declared that COVID-19 is no longer a “public health emergency,” America’s embrace of syncretism — the fusion of different religions — and the growing rejection of a biblical worldview remains a threat to general quality of life in a post-pandemic world, especially for children, new research from the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University suggests.

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  May 11, 2023

  Shireta Rogers, wife of Pastor Tim Rogers, dies after brief condition

  Scores of family members and well-wishers have been grieving openly on social media over the passing of Shireta Rogers, the beloved wife of pastor and singer, Tim Rogers, who publicly dismissed Hell as a “fairytale” in 2018, but said he believes in Heaven and the afterlife. She was 46.

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  May 11, 2023

  Hillsong Church’s Darren Kitto claimed $50K in annual pool costs as part of $125K housing allowance: report

  Hillsong Church’s International Ministry Director Darren Kitto claimed he would need to cover nearly $50,000 in pool expenses in 2018 as part of a $125,000 housing allowance for a Newport Beach, California, home he purchased in the Santa Ana Heights neighborhood for $1.85 million that features a “portable spa.”

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  May 10, 2023

  Brian Houston’s daughter Laura Toganivalu, husband resign from Hillsong Church

  A year after her father stepped down as global senior pastor, Hillsong Church founder Brian Houston’s daughter, Laura Toganivalu, and her husband, Peter, announced that they, too, have officially stepped down as global pastors of the denomination’s youth ministry, Hillsong Young & Free.

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  May 10, 2023

  In public letter Carl Lentz says ‘I’m no longer in ministry,’ admits sins led him to some ‘dark places’

  Despite recent news that he had joined Pastor Michael Todd’s Transformation Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma, as a “strategist,” disgraced former Hillsong NYC pastor, Carl Lentz revealed Tuesday that “I’m no longer in ministry” and admitted that his sins led him to some “dark places.”

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  May 9, 2023

  ‘I had some major lies’ Carl Lentz reveals in teaser for FX docuseries

  Addressing his scandalous exit from Hillsong Church publicly for the first time since his firing in November 2020 from Hillsong Church NYC  over a sex and leadership scandal, disgraced celebrity pastor Carl Lentz says he “had some major lies” in his life.

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  May 9, 2023

  Man delivers 2 ‘pipe bomb type devices’ to church after leaders ask him to stop attending

  Four months after leaders of MarketPlace Church in Hickory, North Carolina, asked him to stop attending their services because he was scaring other churchgoers with his erratic behavior, Joshua Wayne Hawley was arrested by police on Sunday after he delivered two “pipe bomb type devices” to the church meant for the pastor and treasurer.

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  Apr 28, 2023

  Majority of pastors love to preach but few like counseling and discipling believers more: study

  A majority of Protestant senior pastors overwhelmingly rank preaching and teaching from the pulpit as the favorite part of their job, but they are less likely to enjoy other critical responsibilities of the role as much, like discipling, counseling and evangelizing, data from the Barna Group suggests.

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  Apr 27, 2023

  School board: Teacher shot by 1st grader in class suffered ‘workplace injury,’ wants $40M claim tossed

  The Newport News School Board in Virginia, has claimed in a recent court filing that Abigail Zwerner, a first-grade teacher who was shot by a 6-year-old boy as she taught her class at Richneck Elementary School suffered a “workplace injury” and should file a worker’s compensation claim for her injuries instead of a pending $40 million lawsuit.

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  Apr 27, 2023

  Former megachurch youth pastor Christopher Burns now on FBI’s most wanted list

  Christopher Burns, a former youth pastor at Perimeter Church in Georgia turned financial advisor, is now on the FBI’s Most Wanted list for allegedly defrauding dozens of investors of millions of dollars which he splurged on a lavish lifestyle and an obsession with Disney World.