Leonardo Blair

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  Dec 05 2023

  Mike Bickle accuser goes public with allegations IHOPKC calls ‘unsubstantiated’

  A woman who alleges International House of Prayer Kansas City founder Mike Bickle wooed her with Scripture when she was just 19, and he was 42, said he made her a kept woman for several years as he was establishing his ministry and did everything with her sexually except intercourse.

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  Dec 02 2023

  Perry Noble says he never thought he would pastor again, announces new Second Chance campus

  Approximately seven years after he was fired from NewSpring Church in South Carolina for alcohol abuse and other "unfortunate choices and decisions," Perry Noble is thanking God for allowing him back into the megachurch space with the announcement of the Greenville campus of his Second Chance Church.

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  Dec 01 2023

  Lesbian bishop who Carlton Pearson wanted to speak at funeral says Transformation Church barred her from preaching eulogy

  Presiding prelate of The Fellowship of Affirming Ministries, Bishop Yvette Flunder, who late former megachurch pastor Carlton Pearson said he wanted to speak at his homegoing service shortly before he passed on Nov.19, says Pastor Michael Todd’s Transformation Church barred her from preaching a eulogy at their service in Pearson’s honor on Friday due to a dispute over inclusion.

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  Dec 01 2023

  A record nearly 50,000 Americans, mostly men, died by suicide in 2022

  Nearly 50,000 Americans committed suicide in 2022, the "highest number ever recorded in the United States," according to provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which shows that the majority of suicides were men. 

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  Dec 01 2023

  Televangelist Mark Barclay’s son-in-law accused of criminal sexual conduct with person under 13

  The Rev. James Randolph, a minister with Living Word International Church in Midland, Michigan, and the son-in-law of televangelist Mark Barclay of Mark Barclay Ministries, has been charged with several counts of criminal sexual conduct, including one allegedly involving a person younger than 13.

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  Dec 01 2023

  Wife of Sam Collier, Hillsong’s first black lead pastor, announces divorce amid allegations of infidelity

  Former Hillsong Atlanta Pastor Sam Collier, who served as Hillsong Church’s first black lead pastor before stepping down early last year as a wave of scandals embroiled the denomination, appears to be headed for a divorce from his wife, Toni.

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  Nov 29 2023

  No arrests yet after pastor is shot dead in front of 100 witnesses

  Nearly six months after Pastor Jonathan Frazier of Roam Ministry in Orlando, Florida, was shot dead in front of nearly 100 people during an event at his church that he also operated as a banquet hall, police are yet to arrest a suspect and his family is frustrated.

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  Nov 29 2023

  Pastor of historic Georgia church charged with possession of mushrooms, MDMA, other drugs

  Officials at the historic St. John Baptist Church in Savannah, Georgia, remained tight-lipped Wednesday about the recent arrest of their pastor for possession of controlled substances and the use of drug-related objects during a traffic stop on U.S. Highway 80.

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  Nov 29 2023

  Carlton Pearson’s life to be celebrated at multiple churches including Transformation Church

  Despite being ostracized in life by many traditional churches after he rejected the orthodox idea of Hell at the height of his work as a pastor, multiple churches, including Transformation Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma, will celebrate the life of former megachurch Pastor Bishop Carlton Pearson, who died on Nov. 19 after a brief battle with cancer.

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  Nov 29 2023

  This is how much money a majority of Americans say can buy their happiness

  In her 2007 book The How of Happiness Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Riverside, Sonja Lyubomirsky describes happiness as “the experience of joy, contentment, or positive well-being, combined with a sense that one’s life is good, meaningful, and worthwhile.” And there is a set amount of money that a majority of Americans believe can buy them just that a new study shows.