Leonardo Blair
Senior Reporter
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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Conservative denomination excommunicates pastor for supporting kinism, white supremacy
The Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America, a small conservative denomination with just over 7,000 members, has excommunicated one of its ministers for advocating kinism, which teaches that God ordained racial segregation and that people should live, marry and worship only within their own racial or ethnic groups.
Pastor Chris Reed accused of addiction to kratom by former church members
Former MorningStar Ministries leader Chris Reed, who now leads the Friends of the Bridegroom Church in Lancaster, South Carolina, has downplayed allegations from former members that he is an out-of-control, manipulative drug addict who shouldn't be in ministry.
Third ex-leader in televangelist Mark Barclay’s church convicted of child sex abuse
A third minister with Living Word International Church in Midland, Michigan, founded by televangelist Mark Barclay of Mark Barclay Ministries, has been convicted of child sex abuse charges in the last two years.
Coastal Family Church fights back after judge bans worship in strip mall unit with restrictive covenants
Coastal Family Church in Flagler Beach, Florida, is pushing back against a Seventh Judicial Circuit Court judge's temporary injunction issued last Thursday, which bans it from holding worship services in a unit they purchased in a strip mall where property covenants prohibit large gatherings.
Fount Church NYC pastors under fire over remote leadership, allegations of excessive spending
Founding pastors of Fount Church in New York City, Josh Kelsey and his wife, Georgie, are coming under fire from current and former members after it was alleged that they sold their home in New Jersey and moved back to Australia in October without telling the church.
One of multiple sexual abuse lawsuits against Riverside Church, basketball program is settled
One of the 27 plaintiffs who filed civil lawsuits alleging they were sexually abused as minors by Ernest Lorch, the founder and former head coach of Riverside Church’s legendary Riverside Hawks basketball program, has agreed to settle his lawsuit.
Life Bible Church seeking help to raise $2.3M to save property from being washed away by Willamette River
Life Bible Church, a non-denominational, multi-generational congregation located in Harrisburg, Oregon, is now seeking help to prevent its land from being washed away by the Willamette River after losing more than a half-acre of its property to erosion over the last two years.
Pope Leo XIV warns against unchecked use of AI, overly ‘affectionate’ chatbots
Pope Leo XIV has joined a growing list of influential voices warning against the unchecked use of artificial intelligence, as studies indicate rising global concern about the risks it poses to humanity, including privacy, jobs and security.
Church usher, former NYPD sergeant dies while shoveling snow for congregation
Family and friends of retired New York Police Department Sergeant Roger McGovern are in mourning after he died Sunday while shoveling snow at the Our Lady of Victory church in Floral Park, New York, where he served as an usher. He was 60.
Apologia Church pastors sue ex-congregants, independent journalist for defamation
Apologia Church in Tempe, Arizona, along with two of its three pastors, Luke Pierson and Jeff Durbin, remain locked in a defamation lawsuit they filed against two former members who allege they leaked private information about their marital struggles.
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