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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American missionary Josh Sullivan reveals trauma of South African kidnapping
In the six days he spent as a hostage of kidnappers in South Africa in April, Tennessee missionary Josh Sullivan constantly bobbed between waves of fear and faith as he trusted that God would allow him to see his family again.
G3 Ministries board will remove all Josh Buice content, says he targeted conference speakers
The Board of G3 Ministries said that they will be removing all content from their website produced by their former president, Josh Buice, due to the stain of his confession to slandering Christian leaders on their work.
Duluth Vineyard's interim Pastor John Kliewer cleared of allegations of employee misconduct
Approximately one month after he was forced to step back from his role as interim senior pastor of the Vineyard Church in Duluth, Minnesota, following allegations of leadership abuse by Vineyard USA, John Kliewer has been cleared of the claims by an independent investigation.
Pastor claimed members could be absolved of sins by hauling trash, sexually assaulted member: DOJ
A self-styled pastor who allegedly told his congregants they could be absolved of their sins by hauling commercial trash and allegedly sexually assaulted one of his church members has been arrested for sex trafficking, forced labor and conspiring to commit forced labor.
G3 Ministries President Josh Buice resigns after confessing to slandering Christian leaders
Josh Buice, president of G3 Ministries, who also serves as a pastor and elder at Pray's Mill Baptist Church in Douglasville, Georgia, has resigned after confessing to using multiple social media and email accounts to “publicly and anonymously slander numerous Christian leaders.”
Mercy Culture’s Landon Schott on Michael Brown: ‘I refuse to participate in cancel culture’
Despite ongoing controversy over an investigation into allegations of sexual abuse against Michael Brown, founder of The Line of Fire – Dr. Brown Ministries, Inc., the senior lead pastor of the multi-campus Mercy Culture Church, Landon Schott, celebrated his return to public ministry with a full-throated endorsement of his spiritual leadership.
In a first, commercial driverless trucks are now operating on Texas roads thanks in part to AI
Thanks to Artificial Intelligence combined with a powerful computer and sensors that can see beyond the length of four football fields, Aurora Innovation, Inc., is the first company to operate commercial self-driving trucks on public roads in America with the launch of their service in Texas.
In return to ministry, Michael Brown claims Firefly investigation ‘more friendly’ to perspective of accusers
Michael Brown, founder of the North Carolina-based The Line of Fire – Dr. Brown Ministries, Inc., claims that independent sexual abuse investigation firm Firefly, which concluded last month that he engaged in sexual misconduct with two women, was “more friendly” to the perspective of his accusers.
Robert Morris appears in court with wife for child sex abuse charges
Founder of Gateway Church in Southlake, Texas, Robert Morris, appeared in Osage County Court, Oklahoma, with his wife, Debbie, and his attorney, Mack Martin to answer to multiple counts of child sex abuse Friday.
Man who alleges TD Jakes sexually abused him refiles motion to dismiss pastor’s defamation lawsuit
Former-pastor-turned-registered sex offender Duane Youngblood has refiled a motion to dismiss a defamation lawsuit filed against him and 10 other unidentified individuals by Bishop T.D. Jakes, for alleging Jakes sexually assaulted him when he was a teenager some 40 years ago.
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