Officials at the historic St. John Baptist Church in Savannah, Georgia, remained tight-lipped Wednesday about the recent arrest of their pastor for possession of controlled substances and the use of drug-related objects during a traffic stop on U.S. Highway 80. When asked if their 50-year-old leader, George Perry Lee III, would remain in the pulpit […]
The tendency of women who have had an abortion to experience depression following the procedure is “widespread globally,” a recently published study suggests. BMC Psychiatry, an open access, peer-reviewed journal, published a study late last month by a group of Ethiopian medical researchers led by Natnael Atnafu Gebeyehu and Kirubel Dagnaw Tegegne titled “Global prevalence
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Despite being ostracized in life by many traditional churches after he rejected the orthodox idea of Hell at the height of his work as a pastor, multiple churches, including Transformation Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma, will celebrate the life of former megachurch Pastor Bishop Carlton Pearson, who died on Nov. 19 after a brief battle with
In her 2007 book The How of Happiness, Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Riverside, Sonja Lyubomirsky, describes happiness as “the experience of joy, contentment, or positive well-being, combined with a sense that one’s life is good, meaningful, and worthwhile.” And there is a set amount of money that a majority of
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Orlando Magic forward Jonathan Isaac has been quite busy even though injuries have sidelined him for a vast majority of the past three seasons. His bestselling book “Why I Stand” came out last year, and on Saturday he officially launched a clothing brand at an event in Orlando. Called UNITUS, it is a leisure and
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It is December 8. Eleven days before Reggie White’s birthday. Eighteen days before the 11th anniversary of his death. Less than a month away from what would have been his 31st wedding anniversary with his wife, Sara. Sara, Jeremy and Jecolia (her and Reggie’s two children), are sitting on a living room couch in Sara’s
Weeks before his installation as the first Black lead pastor at one of the most influential churches in the Washington, DC, area, Mike Kelsey came across a dissertation written by a distant relative, theologian and social ethicist George D. Kelsey. His great-great-great-uncle detailed the clashes around race and integration among Southern Baptists half a century
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