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.
Jackie Shroyer, the 44-year-old wife of late Minnesota missionary Beau Shroyer, who is alleged to have been the mastermind behind a murder-for-hire plot that led to his death in Lubango, Angola, in October 2024, has been convicted and sentenced to 24 years in prison.
Micah Sykes, the 31-year-old son of Grammy-nominated Christian singer Jubilant Sykes, who has been charged with his murder, was homeless and struggling with mental illness for years, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office.
A growing consumption of ultra-processed foods such as breakfast cereals, yogurts, soda, cookies and even infant formula is fueling an increase in chronic diseases, including mental illnesses around the world, according to a global team of public health experts..
Reactions to the death of Grammy nominated gospel and opera singer, Jubilant Sykes, continue to emerge Thursday following his fatal stabbing at his home in California and the arrest of one of his sons, Micah Sykes by local police.
Grace Community Church is mourning the loss of its longtime member of the church’s music ministry, Grammy-nominated gospel and opera singer, Jubilant Sykes. He was found stabbed to death in his home by police who arrested his son.
Former Truett McConnell University Academic Services Vice President Bradley Reynolds, who was accused of rape and grooming by former student-athlete Hayle Swinson, has been indicted for lying to police in Georgia during an investigation of the allegations last year.
Rev. Frederick Douglass Haynes III, senior pastor of the 13,000-member Friendship-West Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas, who counts Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, among his flock, launched a bid to fill her District 30 congressional seat Monday after she formally announced her run for the U.S. Senate on the same day.
Outspoken civil rights activist and megachurch pastor Jamal Bryant has criticized a recent move by the National Park Service to remove Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth from its calendar of fee-free days to enter national parks and add "Flag Day/President [Donald] Trump's birthday," calling it a "slap in the face."
Tony Evans' son, Jonathan Evans, was formally installed as the new lead pastor at Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship Church in Dallas, Texas, two months after elders restored their founding Pastor back to ministry following an undisclosed sin.
Christmas has long been a time of giving, and for church-going Protestants, this generally translates into giving more money and food to help those in need, a new study published by Lifeway Research shows.
