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Melinda Gates speaks to the media while her husband, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates (L) and his father William H. Gates Sr. listen during an advanced tour of the newly constructed million visitor center at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation 0 million campus in Seattle, Washington, February 1, 2012. | REUTERS/ANTHONY BOLANTE
Bill and Melinda Gates announced this week that they are divorcing after 27 years of marriage. Forbes reports that their split could yield the largest divorce settlement on record, eclipsing the $35 billion breakup of Amazonâs Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie Scott. Yesterday we learned that they have hired âa team of high-profile lawyersâ to handle their divorce.
A researcher works on a vaccine against the new coronavirus COVID-19 at the Copenhagen s University research lab in Copenhagen, Denmark, on March 23, 2020. | AFP via Getty Images/Thibault Savary
Emily Smith is an epidemiologist at Baylor University, the wife of a Baptist pastor, and a mother. She has been working hard to help her fellow evangelicals understand the urgency of getting vaccinated against COVID-19.
Though she has received vociferous criticism and even death threats, she is committed to her calling: âI just feel such a sense of obligation, especially from a Christian perspective, to be the Good Samaritan, and hopefully get people to band together and still wear their mask and get a vaccine.â
Isaac Simmons, an openly gay clergy candidate in the United Methodist Church, doing a video in April 2021 as his drag queen alter ego Ms. Penny Cost. | YouTube/Woke Preacher Clips
A gay man who is also a drag queen was recently confirmed by a Methodist church in Illinois as a candidate for ordained ministry. He wore wigs and full makeup while participating in his churchâs âDrag Sundayâ in April.
Another Hillsong pastor resigned last week after sharing explicit photos on social media. A Southern Baptist pastor in North Carolina resigned after being arrested and charged with child pornography.
And Josh Duggar, a former star of the television series 19 Kids and Counting and a very public Christian, appeared in court last Friday after he was arrested and charged with receiving and possessing child pornography. Though he pleaded not guilty, he has confessed to adultery and viewing pornography in the past.
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