Leonardo Blair

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  Sep 13, 2022

  Mom struggling with mental health, $10K behind in rent suspected of drowning 3 children

  A Brooklyn mother suspected of drowning her three young children at Coney Island Beach in Brooklyn, New York, on Monday, was struggling with mental health, was locked in a custody dispute with her ex-husband and facing eviction for $10,000 in unpaid rent.

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  Sep 12, 2022

  Chick-fil-A explains use of ‘community’ in tweet that some thought addressed black man’s race

  Chick-fil-A has clarified its use of the term "community," calling it a "poor choice of words" after backlash online over a tweet that some people thought referenced a black man's race during a conversation about adding spicy chicken nuggets to its permanent menu.

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  Sep 12, 2022

  Mormon father, wife and 3 children found fatally shot at Maryland home

  Three years after losing his youngest son to cancer, a father who served as a missionary with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints was found fatally shot at his Maryland home along with his wife and their three children Friday in what police are investigating as an apparent murder-suicide.

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  Sep 11, 2022

  Majority of pastors don’t believe Christians should tithe 10%: study

  While many Christian churches encourage tithing — giving 10% of one's income to the church — as a biblical commandment, only a minority of pastors subscribe to that traditional view, data from a new Barna study show.

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  Sep 8, 2022

  Pastor of family church allegedly loaded gun, threatened to kill wife in home

  New Prospect Baptist Church in Toledo, Ohio, remained tightlipped about the fate of its pastor, the Rev. Charles Ross, Thursday, days after his wife reported to police that he loaded a gun and threatened to kill her inside their home in the early hours of Sunday morning.

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  Sep 7, 2022

  Bishop Lamor Whitehead claims he lost income, members due to defamation by internet personalities: lawsuit

  Brooklyn Bishop Lamor Whitehead, who was robbed of some $400,000 or more in jewelry while delivering a sermon at Leaders of Tomorrow International Churches in New York City in July, has slapped two popular online personalities with $20 million defamation lawsuits each following the loss of church members and income after they allegedly painted him as a scammer and drug dealer.

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  Sep 7, 2022

  At Dave Ramsey’s company, oral sex outside marriage wasn't a fireable offense, legal docs show

  At Ramsey Solutions  where employees are expected to adhere to a “righteous living” policy based on Judeo-Christian principles or face discipline, Evangelical CEO Dave Ramsey and his board did not treat one employee's oral sex outside marriage as a fireable offense because it didn’t qualify as “intercourse” court documents show.

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  Sep 6, 2022

  Some parents complain after more than 100 students are baptized at NC school without their consent

  Officials at a private Christian school in North Carolina have received backlash after over 100 students were baptized without the consent of their parents. A spokesperson says the school normally seeks parental consent but the baptisms last Thursday were a "move of God."

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  Aug 31, 2022

  Brian Houston returns to pulpit, says ‘there is so much more in me’

  Hillsong Church founder Brian Houston insisted in what appeared to be his first pulpit appearance since his resignation in March that God doesn’t write people off as men do and that he still has “so much more” to give at the age of 68.

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  Aug 30, 2022

  Acts 29 joins Village Church in suspending Matt Chandler over Instagram messages as Evangelicals react

  Global church planting network Acts 29 said it has “asked” the president and chairman of their board, Matt Chandler, “to step aside from Acts 29 speaking engagements” following a decision by The Village Church in Flower Mound, Texas, to suspend him over his inappropriate communication with a woman who is not his wife on Instagram.