Leonardo Blair

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  Aug 20, 2026

  Student dies during missions training program at Spurgeon College

  Benjamin Speidel, an incoming student at Spurgeon College, the undergraduate school at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City, Missouri, died Saturday while hiking during an intensive missions training program. He was 20.

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  Aug 20, 2026

  Traveling pastor, wife convicted of child sex crimes

  Benjamin Garlick, a traveling pastor associated with the Independent Fundamentalist Baptist movement, will spend the rest of his life in prison after a jury in Rutherford County, Tennessee, convicted him and his wife, Shaantal Garlick, of child sex crimes on Monday.

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  Aug 19, 2026

  Mark Driscoll discusses whether obese pastors should be disqualified from ministry

  Citing Titus 1 and 1 Timothy 3, Pastor Mark Driscoll, who leads Trinity Church in Scottsdale, Arizona, recently addressed whether obesity should disqualify pastors from ministry.

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  Aug 19, 2026

  Pastor Jamal Bryant to lead national prayer rally for Nolan Wells

  Megachurch Pastor Jamal Bryant is set to lead a national prayer rally for Nolan Wells in Mississippi on Wednesday, more than a month after the beloved 18-year-old student-athlete was found dead near Horn Island off the Mississippi Gulf Coast last month.

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  Aug 18, 2026

  Pastor who believes men should ‘play big’ makes college football team at 47

  Justin Buzzard, the founder and lead pastor of Garden City Church who believes men should “play big” with their lives, put his message into action when he tried out for a spot on the San Jose City College football team and made the cut.

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  Aug 18, 2026

  Netflix to explore death of pastor’s wife Mica Miller in new docuseries

  The controversial 2024 death of Mica Miller is now the subject of a three-part Netflix docuseries, as federal authorities accuse her widower, Pastor John-Paul Miller, of cyberstalking her until she took her life. Titled “Death of the Pastor’s Wife,” the series premieres Aug. 26.

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  Aug 17, 2026

  Trump to meet freed missionary pilot Kevin Rideout at White House

  Once he returns home, recently freed American missionary pilot Kevin Rideout and his wife, Krista, are expected to meet with President Donald Trump at the White House.

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  Aug 17, 2026

  Televangelist Brian Carn imprisoned after declaring he'd never go to jail

  Self-styled prophet and leader of Kingdom City Church, Brian Carn Jr., is now in prison despite declaring last month, “I’ll never spend a day in jail,” after pleading guilty in January to obstructing the IRS’ efforts to collect more than $600,000 in outstanding taxes.

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  Jul 31, 2026

  Family mourns Christian grandmother found shot dead outside church; son charged

  The family of Theresa Jones, a California grandmother who authorities say was shot dead by one of her sons while she was inside her car outside the Fullerton Police Department, is now mourning as they remember her as “a deeply devoted Christian woman whose faith guided everything she did.”

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  Jul 30, 2026

  Phoenix campus of Mexican megachurch building $1.13M 'clergy home'

  The Phoenix campus of Mexico’s largest Evangelical church, La Luz Del Mundo (The Light Of The World), is building a massive “clergy home” worth more than $1 million as its embattled global leader, Naason Joaquin Garcia, continues to lead the organization from prison while serving a 17-year sentence for sexually assaulting three minor girls from his flock.