Leonardo Blair
Leonardo Blair is an award-winning investigative reporter and feature writer whose career spanned secular media in the Caribbean and New York City prior to joining The Christian Post in 2013. His early work with CP focusing on crime and Christian society quickly attracted international attention when he exposed a campaign by Creflo Dollar Ministries in 2015 to raise money from supporters to purchase a $65 million luxury jet. He continues to report extensively on church crimes, spiritual abuse, mental health, the black church and major events impacting Christian culture.
He is a 2007 alumnus of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where he was an inaugural member of the Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism. He lives with his wife and two sons in New York City.
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Pastor and new wife fatally shot by woman’s ex-husband week after wedding: police
A week after celebrating their new life together as husband and wife, a Florida pastor and his new bride were shot dead outside their home on Saturday by the woman’s ex-husband.
Mike Bickle confesses to ‘inappropriate behavior’ over 20 years ago
More than a month after leaders of International House of Prayer Kansas City announced that at least one allegation of abuse including “sexual immorality” made against the ministry’s founder Mike Bickle has “some credibility,” the embattled minister confessed on Tuesday to sinful misconduct he committed over 20 years ago.
Is a Southern Baptist megachurch now affirming same-sex relationships?
As Florida business owner Joe Mills remembers it, all the questions about whether the 14,000-member First Baptist Church Orlando is now affirming same-sex relationships, began after he started a Bible study group on Facebook with two of his gay friends called The Gospel Gathering.
Men more likely to get married after 45, but that's when women start losing interest: study
Marriage among men appears to be more popular after age 45, but it’s also the age when women's interest in the institution begins to wane, a recent analysis of national marriage and divorce data by the law firm Koth Gregory & Nieminski show.
Brothers, retired NYPD officers, hailed as heroes for stopping woman from torching MLK’s home
Two brothers who are retired New York Police Department officers thwarted a 26-year-old woman’s attempt to torch Martin Luther King Jr.’s historic boyhood home while on a visit to Atlanta, Georgia, last Thursday were both recognized with an Outstanding Citizen Award by the NYPD on Saturday.
Parishioners mourn after Nebraska priest fatally stabbed in rectory
Parishioners at the St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Fort Calhoun, Nebraska, were left in mourning after their priest, Rev. Stephen Gutgsell, was fatally stabbed at the church during a break-in Sunday morning.
Christian school students, airman lift car to save mother and children after crash
Almost two dozen students from Layton Christian Academy and an airman from the Hill Air Force Base became real life heroes Tuesday when they lifted a car in the parking lot of their school to save a mother and her two young children who got pinned underneath the vehicle after they got hit by another car.
Brian Houston announces 2024 comeback with new online ministry and church
Nearly two years after Hillsong Church founder Brian Houston formally resigned as global senior pastor of the megachurch network amid revelations that two women made allegations of misconduct against him, he is getting ready to make a comeback with a new online ministry and church in 2024.
NH pastor dies by suicide after being fired over child sexual abuse allegations
Jarrett Booker, a father, husband and pastor of students and worship at Nashua Baptist Church in New Hampshire, left his family, friends and church community with a double dose of shock and grief when he died by suicide two days after being fired for allegedly sexually abusing minors. He was 37.
Cash giving hit 10-year low in 2022 for churches except the richest ones: ECFA report
Churches, in general, experienced a drop in cash donations for the first time in 10 years in 2022, except for those pulling in revenue of $20 million or more, data from the 2023 Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability State of Giving report show.