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.
Grammy Award-winning Christian hip-hop artist, activist and CEO, Lecrae Moore, popularly known by his first name, is unapologetically free says and he’s no longer worried about pleasing everyone in the room.
South Carolina Pastor John-Paul Miller who is accused of making false statements to federal investigators and cyberstalking his estranged wife, Mica Miller, for nearly two years until she took her own life in 2024 has pleaded not guilty to the charges in federal court.
Jeremy Lyon, a former associate professor of Old Testament and Hebrew at Truett McConnell University in Cleveland, Georgia, has filed a lawsuit against Baptist News Global alleging the publication defamed him during its coverage of a sex abuse scandal involving former university Vice President Bradley Reynolds.
Hillsong Church has confirmed it is in talks with “experienced development partners” about plans to develop its sprawling Hills Campus for the "long-term mission of the church and the benefit of the wider community," but nothing is final.
Brad and Amy Hagan, lead pastors of Thrive Church in New South Wales, have been suspended for six months by the Australian Christian Churches following an investigation by the largest Pentecostal organization in Australia into complaints about the couple’s leadership.
Ricky Lee Taylor, a former University of Tennessee at Chattanooga basketball player turned pastor and businessman, has been sentenced to 30 months in prison and three years of probation after pleading guilty to wire and tax fraud connected to his abuse of the federal government’s Paycheck Protection Program during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Northern Seminary in Lisle, Illinois, has parted ways with the school’s first black president, Joy J. Moore, following months of confusion about whether she resigned just before she was to be installed in the position last October.
Two people are now dead and at least six others were injured after a fight broke out during a memorial service at a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints meetinghouse in Salt Lake City, Utah, on Wednesday.
Popular gospel singer and pastor Donnie McClurkin claimed recent claims of rape and sexual assault from a man who served as his personal assistant at his church are “contrived and untrue." Believing he “will be vindicated," he urged prayers for his accuser.
The Court of Appeals in Washington state has dismissed a defamation lawsuit filed by former megachurch pastor Micahn Carter against his former assistant, who alleges he raped her in her office at Together Church in Yakima in 2019.
