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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Gateway Church names 4 new interim elders months after removing leaders over Robert Morris scandal
Gateway Church in Southlake, Texas, has added four new interim elders to its leadership team months after purging multiple elders from their ranks who were aware of a past child sex abuse claim against the church’s former leader and founder, Robert Morris, but did not make it known to the congregation.
Nation grieves as victims of American Airlines, Army helicopter crash are identified
An outpouring of grief and support has been spreading across the country for the 67 people killed in Wednesday’s midair collision of American Airlines Flight 5342 and a U.S. Army Black Hawk in Washington D.C., as their identities continued to be revealed by friends and family Friday.
Trump pushes school choice expansion after ‘heartbreaking’ report on student performance
President Donald Trump has directed the U.S. Department of Education and several other federal agencies to look for ways to expand school choice for families to improve student performance as the nation's latest report card shows American students falling behind in reading and stagnating in math,
6 pastors, Christian leaders react to American Airlines crash with Army helicopter that left 67 dead
As America grapples with the nation’s deadliest commercial airline crash since 2001, after a midair collision between an American Airlines jet and an Army helicopter left 67 people dead Wednesday, pastors across the country are now sharing prayers and other words of comfort as profiles of the victims slowly emerge online.
Wichita hosts community prayer as officials give up hope on finding survivors in Potomac River crash
Wichita, Kansas, the city from where an American Airlines jet departed Wednesday, with 64 people on board before crashing midair with a U.S. Army helicopter carrying three soldiers near Reagan National Airport, is set to host a community prayer meeting as officials gave up hope of finding survivors Thursday.
Education experts worry as American children fall further behind in reading, stagnate in math
More than half of fourth graders nationwide have not mastered reading at a proficient level for their grade, and the share of students considered proficient is now 2 percentage points lower than two years earlier, new data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress shows.
14 Pentecostal sect members convicted for death of 8-year-old girl denied lifesaving insulin
The parents of an 8-year-old girl, her adult brother and 11 other members of a small, tongues-talking Pentecostal sect in Toowoomba, Australia, were convicted of manslaughter Wednesday for causing her death by withholding lifesaving insulin needed to treat her Type 1 diabetes because of their religious beliefs.
Grant Thomson, Bible Society Australia’s CEO, resigns after organization posts massive deficit
Five years after former Hillsong Global Chief Marketing Officer Global Grant Thomson was named Bible Society Australia's new CEO, he abruptly resigned after the organization posted a nearly $4.5 million (AU$7.2 million) deficit.
Brother of TD Jakes’ accuser claims megachurch pastor tried to sexually assault him too: affidavit
Pastor Richard Edwin Youngblood, the older brother of Duane Youngblood who Bishop T.D. Jakes of The Potter's House has hit with a defamation lawsuit for alleging the megachurch pastor sexually assaulted him when he was a teenager some 40 years ago, has accused Jakes of trying to have sex with him too.
Megachurch Pastor Jon Weece announces he'll be stepping down to become regular member
Declaring that it is the right thing to do, Senior Pastor Jon Weece of Southland Christian Church has announced plans to step down from the helm of one of the state’s largest churches and become a regular member.
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