Leonardo Blair

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  Jun 22, 2021

  11 children injured in church bus crash, 2 critical as church asks for privacy

  The Union City First United Pentecostal Church in Tennessee thanked members of the public for an “outpouring of love and support” Tuesday, days after 11 children were injured in a crash during a trip in the ministry's van on Saturday.

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  Jun 21, 2021

  9 children, 1 adult from Christian group home killed in fiery Alabama crash

  The close-knit community of the Tallapoosa County Girls Ranch, a Christian group home in Alabama, are now grappling with grief after nine children and one adult from their group died Saturday in a fiery crash on Interstate 65 in Butler County.

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  Jun 21, 2021

  After COVID-19 kills 60 members, church re-examines role in community

  In 2020, COVID-19 moved through the congregation at Saint Peter’s Lutheran Church in Midtown Manhattan like an invisible tsunami, leaving a trail of victims in its wake.

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  Jun 18, 2021

  Christians happier in marriage and men more satisfied, but Gen X is in trouble: study

  Christians are happier with their marriages than non-Christians, men are more satisfied with their unions than women, and Gen X couples are in trouble, according to a recent Marriage Helper study conducted by Barna Group.

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  Jun 17, 2021

  SBC messengers approve task force for sex abuse investigation after leaders rejected expanded review

  Two days after the Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee rejected a motion to create a task force to oversee a third-party investigation of allegations SBC leaders mishandled a “crisis of sexual abuse” in the denomination, messengers overwhelmingly approved a motion to do just that on Wednesday.

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  Jun 17, 2021

  Trinity Church Wall Street awards $4.6M in grants to seminaries, churches and Christian orgs

  Trinity Church Wall Street in Lower Manhattan, the richest Episcopal church in the world, which boasts a diverse investment portfolio worth $6 billion, has awarded more than $4.6 million in grants to Christian organizations across the United States, Africa and Latin America

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  Jun 16, 2021

  Man contemplating self-harm changes mind after good Samaritan tells him ‘God loves you’

  After spending hours dangling precariously from a sign above an Oklahoma highway as onlookers worried he would jump to his death Tuesday, a man in mental distress was convinced that life was worth living by a good Samaritan who told him, “God loves you.”

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  Jun 16, 2021

  How evangelical teachings ruin sex and marriage for many women

  New research shows many evangelical women are unsatisfied in the bedroom and popular blogger Sheila Wray Gregoire is staging a scholarly intervention with her latest book, "The Great Sex Rescue: The Lies You've Been Taught and How to Recover What God Intended." 

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  Jun 16, 2021

  Southern Baptists affirm commitment to racial reconciliation without fight over critical race theory

  Southern Baptist messengers affirmed their commitment to racial reconciliation and the sufficiency of Scripture to address issues of race by adopting a resolution that avoided the contentious debate over critical race theory at the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention in Nashville Tuesday.

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  Jun 15, 2021

  SBC official says increasing scope of sex abuse investigation would be ‘horrific’

  The Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee shot down a motion Monday that sought to expand the scope of a recently commissioned independent investigation into allegations SBC leaders mishandled a “crisis of sexual abuse” in the denomination with one official declaring the move would be “horrific.”