Leonardo Blair

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  Nov 3, 2026

  More than half of teens turn to Jesus for advice but not more than parents, friends: Barna

  U.S. teenagers are more likely to feel comfortable seeking advice about their identity from their mothers than from anyone else, ranking parents and friends ahead of Jesus, new Barna data shows.

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  Nov 2, 2026

  Megachurch pastor Lonnie Snell fired over sexual misconduct with staffer

  New Life Chapel in West Chester, Ohio, has announced the firing of their founder and senior pastor, Lonnie Snell, for engaging in consensual sexual misconduct with a staffer.

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  Nov 2, 2026

  NC county says fight over JD Greear’s church expansion isn’t about religious discrimination

  An attorney for the Chatham County Board of Commissioners in North Carolina argued Tuesday that an ongoing legal battle over the denial of a request by former Southern Baptist Convention President J.D. Greear's The Summit Church to rezone nearly 100 acres of land to house its Chapel Hill campus isn’t a fight over religious freedom but a fight over separation of powers.

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  Oct 30, 2026

  Ohio pastor with 2 wives facing backlash after polygamy announcement: 'Raises questions about spiritual manipulation'

  Ohio Pastor Israel Ford is facing public backlash after revealing he has been living in a throuple with his wife and a younger woman for the last three years, said they all fasted and prayed for 40 days before embarking on their polygynous journey.

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  Oct 30, 2026

  Asheville Christian Academy says boy's claims of severe bullying are 'without merit'

  Officials at Asheville Christian Academy, a private K-12 school in North Carolina, say allegations that they failed to protect a former 13-year-old male student from sexually and physically exploitative bullying by other students and then tried to cover it up are “without merit.”

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  Oct 28, 2026

  Robotics company Faraday Future promotes $90K AI-powered Humanoid robot in NYC

  New Yorkers gawked and wrestled with a mix of emotions over the weekend as Faraday Future EAI Robotics Ecosystem, a California-based company that produces humanoid and bionic robots, promoted a model of its nearly $90,000 all-new Futurist humanoid robot in Brooklyn.

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  Oct 27, 2026

  Historic Church of St. Mary agrees to sell air rights to developer for $23.9 million

  The historic Society of the Free Church of St. Mary the Virgin in Midtown Manhattan has agreed to sell 87,000 square feet of its unused development rights to real estate giant Extell Development for $23.9 million, according to court documents.

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  Oct 27, 2026

  Hero father who stopped teenage gunman at Oregon school recalls hearing children pleading for their lives

  Kaylub Giamanco, the father who stopped a teenage gunman at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon, on Thursday, said he heard children "pleading" for their lives before he acted. The gunman killed three children and a teacher, and Giamanco said he regrets that he didn’t save everyone.

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  Oct 26, 2026

  Fired Northview Church Pastor CJ Johnson launches new church

  Four months after he was fired from the multi-campus Northview Church in Indiana due to concerns over his leadership style, Pastor CJ Johnson is now back in the pulpit with a new congregation at Patmos Church.

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  Oct 26, 2026

  Ohio pastor reveals he’s had 2 wives for 3 years: Having only 1 wife is 'unbiblical'

  Even though polygyny, the practice of having more than one wife, is illegal in America, Pastor Israel Ford, who co-founded LifeWorks Church in Cleveland, Ohio, with his wife, Lydia Ford, in 2009, told his congregation on Sunday that he has been living with two wives for the past three years and that God endorses it.