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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Christian woman shot dead during robbery on her way home from church
Family and friends of Jewel Harden, a beloved member of the Crown Kingdom Cultural Center in North Augusta, South Carolina, are reeling in grief after she was shot dead during a robbery on her way home from church on Sunday.
Gateway Church, Robert Morris seek to dismiss Cindy Clemishire’s defamation lawsuit
Gateway Church in Southlake, Texas, and its embattled founder, Robert Morris, are seeking to dismiss a defamation lawsuit filed by Cindy Clemishire earlier this summer, just weeks after Morris pleaded guilty to sexually abusing her beginning when she was 12 in the 1980s.
Ex-youth minister Lindsey Whiteside’s home detention for child sex abuse divides Mississippi town
The prosecution of former Mississippi youth minister Lindsey Whiteside, who is accused of sexually abusing a minor under her care, continues to divide her community as United States Attorney Clay Joyner filed an emergency motion to review and revoke a federal judge's order to release her from custody pending trial.
Pastor Jamal Bryant suspends giving campaign for members, citing government shutdown
Citing the impact of the ongoing federal government shutdown on the economy and his members, megachurch Pastor Jamal Bryant has suspended his church’s Exceedingly Giving Campaign until the first Sunday after the shutdown ends.
Glow Church founders Joel and Ellen Cave separate after more than 24 years of marriage
After more than 24 years of marriage, Joel and Ellen Cave, who founded the popular Glow Church in the Gold Coast, Australia, have separated and stepped back as senior pastors, the church has announced.
Son of Life Church pastor charged with multiple child sex crimes, had explicit videos of parents: affidavit
Jonathan Peternel, the 24-year-old son of Nathan Peternel, who serves as the lead pastor of the multicampus Life Church in Pendleton, Indiana, has been arrested and charged with multiple felony counts related to child sex crimes.
Christians urged to pray as American missionary pilot is abducted in Niger
Prayers are now going up around the world for American missionary pilot Kevin Rideout after he was reportedly kidnapped from his home in the highly secure Château 1 neighborhood of Niamey, the capital of Niger in West Africa.
Former female youth minister Lindsey Whiteside arrested again on child sex abuse charge
Former youth minister Lindsey Whiteside who was recently sentenced in a controversial decision to just three years of house arrest and seven years of probation for child sexual abuse in DeSoto County, Mississippi, has been rearrested on new charges this time by federal authorities.
Judge who sentenced female youth pastor to house arrest for child sex abuse recuses himself
Following public backlash and a strong rebuke from the District Attorney for DeSoto County in Mississippi Matthew Barton, Special Circuit Court Judge Andrew Howorth has recused himself from the child sexual abuse case of former youth minister Lindsey Whiteside.
Fred Luter, SBC’s first and only black president, announces retirement from church leadership
Citing his advancing age and a need to plan for the future, Fred Luter Jr., the longtime senior pastor of Franklin Avenue Baptist Church in New Orleans, Louisiana, who served as the Southern Baptist Convention’s first and only black president, has announced his retirement as the church’s leader.
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