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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FEMA missed major flood risk at Christian Camp Mystic, analysis claims to show
The Federal Emergency Management Agency failed to include multiple buildings on its flood risk map for Camp Mystic in Hunt, Texas, according to an analysis by NPR, PBS's FRONTLINE and data scientists.
Gateway Church joins local response to deadly Texas flood
Gateway Church in Southlake, Texas, joined multiple churches and relief agencies Wednesday in responding to the devastating flooding in the Texas Hill Country that has killed at least 120 people, while another 172 remain missing since last Friday.
Happy Home Baptist Church pastor charged with alleged sexual assault of 13-year-old
Happy Home Baptist Church in Nakina, North Carolina, is now reeling after their recently hired pastor was arrested Saturday for allegedly grabbing the “private parts” of a 13-year-old middle school student.
Megachurch pastor recalls escaping flood with family along Guadalupe River
Megachurch Pastor Michael Oakes is counting his blessings after he and his entire family escaped flash flooding along the Guadalupe River in Texas last Friday, which has claimed the lives of more than 100 people in the state's Hill Country region.
Can ChatGPT interpret speaking in tongues?
Can ChatGPT interpret speaking in tongues? Many Charismatic and Pentecostal Christians have been engaging in the “ChatGPT Tongues Challenge” to see if OpenAI’s chatbot can translate speaking in tongues, also known as glossolalia.
IRS says pastors endorsing political candidates doesn’t violate Johnson Amendment
Comparing it to a family discussion, the Internal Revenue Service agreed on Monday that pastors and other religious leaders can endorse political candidates to their congregation without threatening their tax-exempt status under a decades-old legislation called the Johnson Amendment.
Megachurch musician was urged to see cardiologist before police found him dead
Just over a month before police found him dead in his car in Frisco, Texas, Michael Rigsby, a beloved 26-year-old musician for The Bridge Frisco, was warned by a doctor that if he didn't see a cardiologist within two days, he could die, according to his mother, Kim Cooks.
Gateway Church to end all Saturday services except for Southlake campus
Except for its main campus in Southlake, Texas, Gateway Church has announced that it will soon be hosting worship services exclusively on Sunday as it grapples with dwindling donations in the aftermath of the alleged child sex abuse scandal involving the megachurch’s founder, Robert Morris.
New Life Church asks 2 more pastors to resign over Robert Morris scandal
New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado, dismissed two more pastors for failures in their handling of knowledge related to Gateway Church founder Robert Morris' alleged sexual abuse of Cindy Clemishire beginning when she was 12 in the 1980s.
'You're not a weak Christian if you see a therapist,' pastor tells congregants after attempted mass shooting
A week after 31-year-old Brian Browning attempted a mass shooting at CrossPointe Community Church in Wayne, Michigan, the congregation’s pastor urged his members to forgive him while acknowledging the trauma from the incident.
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