Leonardo Blair

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  Jun 10, 2022

  Guidepost Solutions’ LGBT pride tweet sparks uproar in SBC

  Guidepost Solutions, the investigative firm that recently produced a report on how the Southern Baptist Convention’s leadership mishandled sexual abuse allegations, is coming under fire from high-profile leaders in the denomination over a tweet supporting LGBT pride.

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  Jun 10, 2022

  Americans prefer churches with names that are nondenominational: study

  In continuation of a cultural shift researchers have previously documented as a growing rejection of organized religion, a new study from Lifeway Research shows Americans are least likely to dismiss churches branded as nondenominational.

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  Jun 9, 2022

  Ex-SBC president suspended by First Baptist Church Woodstock after sexual assault allegation

  Former Southern Baptist Convention President Johnny Hunt has been formally suspended as pastor emeritus at First Baptist Church Woodstock in Georgia after an investigation deemed credible allegations that he sexually assaulted a younger pastor's wife several years ago.

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  Jun 9, 2022

  Leader of Mexico’s largest evangelical church gets 17 years for child sex abuse

  Naasón Joaquín García, the leader of Mexico’s largest evangelical church, was sentenced to nearly 17 years in prison Wednesday for sexually assaulting three minor girls from his flock.

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  Jun 9, 2022

  How the digital revolution is disrupting the Church and forcing it out of buildings

  As online Christian engagement continues to expand rapidly through the use of digital technologies, it has coincided with a staggering disruption in physical church membership which some technology experts say will continue to displace physical churches that refuse to adapt to the digital revolution.

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  Jun 8, 2022

  Waitress gets $777 tip after prayer then donates it to her church

  A New Orleans waitress who received a $777 tip from a customer shortly after praying to God to help her church repair their broken air conditioning system has donated the entire amount to her congregation.

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  Jun 8, 2022

  Pastor calls murder-suicide at Cornerstone Church ‘worst day of a lot of our lives’

  Speaking to his congregation on Sunday, the lead pastor of Cornerstone Church in Ames, Iowa, couldn't find the words to describe the heartbreak his church has experienced after two college students were shot dead in the church’s parking lot last Thursday by a gunman who took his own life.

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  Jun 8, 2022

  Celebration Church sues to evict Stovall and Kerri Weems from million dollar waterfront home

  The 12,000-member Celebration Church in Jacksonville, Florida, continued its legal sparring with founding Pastor Stovall Weems and his wife, Kerri, in a new lawsuit earlier this month demanding that the couple vacate a million dollar waterfront home owned by the church after Weems completely resigned from all work with the church in April.

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  Jun 7, 2022

  Second mistrial declared for man charged with killing pastor’s wife Amanda Blackburn

  A trial set for a 25-year-old man accused of the 2015 murder of Amanda Blackburn, the pregnant wife of Pastor Davey Blackburn, who led the now-defunct Resonate Church in Indianapolis, has ended in a mistrial for the second time after jurors learned details about the case.

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  Jun 7, 2022

  Ex-megachurch pastor Bruxy Cavey arrested for sexual assault; police say there could be more victims

  Nearly three months after he confessed to sexual misconduct and resigned as the primary teaching pastor of one of Canada’s largest megachurches, police arrested and charged Bruxy Cavey with sexual assault and said they believe there could be more victims.