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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Hours after baptism, Florida teen is shot dead in church clothes protecting friend
Just hours after he got baptized at The Rock Church of Fort Myers in Florida on Sunday, 16-year-old high school student De’mari Jackson was shot dead in his church clothes as he protected a friend from a fight between two groups of teenage girls.
Parents of preteens in ‘spiritual state of distress’ as adherence to biblical Christianity fades: study
Parents of preteens, children younger than 13, “are in a state of spiritual distress” as American adherence to biblical Christianity fades even in churches, and a "tragic crash” is coming as a result of the situation, according to new data from the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University and the American Worldview Inventory 2022.
Jemar Tisby chides Grove City College for calling his invitation to speak in chapel 'a mistake'
Jemar Tisby, a well-known Christian author and president of The Witness, a multimedia platform about race, religion, politics and culture, chided leaders of Grove City College in Pennsylvania for calling a decision to allow him to speak in the school’s chapel about race in 2020 “a mistake.”
Celebration Church report paints founders Stovall and Kerri Weems as abusive, mentally troubled
An internal report recently released by the 12,000-member Celebration Church in Jacksonville, Florida, paints founding Pastor Stovall Weems and his wife, Kerri, as abusive, mentally troubled divas who constantly exploited church staff and finances until they were forced to resign from all their positions in the church earlier this month.
Youth pastor arrested for sending nude pictures to underage girl
Christopher Jaime Reyes, a former youth pastor at Wesley United Methodist Church on Marco Island, Florida, has been arrested for sending nudes pictures and lewd messages to an underage girl on social media.
Pastor David E. Taylor’s church buys $8.3 million mansion from Tampa Bay Buccaneers co-owner
The Kingdom of God Global Church in Michigan run by Pastor David E. Taylor of Joshua Media Ministries International who was once deposed for corruption has purchased an $8.3 million mansion in Tampa, Florida, from Tampa Bay Buccaneers co-owner Darcie Glazer Kassewitz and her husband.
‘The pandemic killed us': Church running since 1848 to hold final service Sunday
After declining for years, the First Presbyterian Church of Des Moines in Iowa, which has been in operation since 1848, will gather for its final collective hallelujah on Sunday, unable to rebound after the COVID-19 pandemic.
Hillsong exec. called Brian Houston’s explanation after visiting woman’s hotel room ‘dribble’: report
A high-level Hillsong Church executive has criticized the global church network's handling of the founder Brian Houston's misconduct that eventually led to his resignation, saying the explanation for him visiting a woman's hotel room in 2019 was “dribble."
Former Christian school teacher will serve no jail time for sexual relationship with female student
A former teacher at Richmond Christian School in Chesterfield, Virginia, who was convicted of having a sexual relationship with a female student will serve no jail time thanks to a plea agreement that suspended four consecutive 12-month terms for her crime.
Most pastors believe all Christians should make disciples, but majority disagree: study
While a majority of pastors agree that every disciple of Jesus Christ is mandated in Scripture to “go and make disciples” as part of the Great Commission in Matthew 28:19–20, most Christians believe this mandate only applies to some disciples, not all, a new study from Barna shows.
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