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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California mayor claims guilt over embezzling money from church drove her to suicide attempt
Claiming she was racked by guilt over her sin, Tamara Wallace, the mayor of South Lake Tahoe and administrator for the Lake Tahoe Community Presbyterian Church, has confessed to embezzling an undisclosed sum of money from the church, which led to a failed suicide attempt.
Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship founder Tony Evans is restored to ministry after discipline for undisclosed sin
Elders at the 11,000-member Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship Church in Dallas, Texas, announced Sunday that while founder Pastor Tony Evans has been restored to ministry after stepping down more than a year ago due to a sin that was not publicly disclosed, he won't be returning to a staff position or any leadership role.
Nelson Makanda wants to train 200,000 pastors to meet Africa’s Evangelical boom
On a wet Thursday in September, Rev. Nelson Makanda was busy appealing to the United States President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief as world leaders talked politics and diplomacy at the United Nations General Assembly.
Robert Morris to spend 6 months in prison after pleading guilty to child sex abuse
Robert Morris, the founder of Gateway Church in Southlake, Texas, was punished with a six-month prison term and a 10-year suspended sentence after pleading guilty Thursday to sexually abusing the now 55-year-old Cindy Clemishire beginning when she was 12 in the 1980s."
Feds decline all charges, ends probe into Olivet University
Federal authorities have decided not to file criminal charges against Olivet University in Anza, California, in effect dismissing allegations of human trafficking as not credible.
Nearly half of American adults don't believe the Bible is literally true: study
While significant majorities of Evangelicals, black protestants and Americans in the South continue to hold fast to literal belief in Scripture, a new study has found that nearly half of American adults see the Bible as a collection of helpful but “ancient myths” that are “not literally true.”
5 moving Christian reactions to Voddie Baucham’s death and legacy
Hours after the announcement of the death of prominent Southern Baptist preacher Voddie Baucham Jr. on Thursday, there has been an outpouring of condolences and faithful celebration online, marking him as a man of substance who defended the truth of the Gospel and the role of men in society.
Televangelist David Taylor allegedly urged followers to hurt themselves, police
Televangelist David E. Taylor, who was arrested by federal authorities on multiple charges connected to a forced labor and money laundering conspiracy last month, allegedly encouraged his followers to hurt themselves and the police.
Bodycam footage of Pastor Aaron Williams Jr. being charged with sex act in SUV released
Just days after Pastor Aaron Williams Jr. of Maddox Memorial Church of God in Christ in Mansfield, Ohio, pleaded not guilty to engaging in a sex act with a woman who is not his wife, video footage from a police bodycam has been released.
Hope Fellowship’s John McKinzie breaks silence as church consults with police over moral failure
A week after his resignation as lead pastor of the multi-campus Hope Fellowship in North Texas due to “sexual sin and moral” failure.
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