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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Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir's new album ‘I Will Not Be Moved’ is an anointed masterpiece
From the first song — the title track “I Will Not Be Moved” featuring Brad Hudson — until the last one, “No Other Name,” Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir has delivered an anointed masterpiece in praise and worship music with their latest album.
Former youth pastor claims TD Jakes tried to kiss him too
Another man who says he worked as T.D. Jakes’ youth pastor in the 1990s has accused the megachurch leader of trying to kiss him too, a week after Jakes formally denied allegations he sexually assaulted former pastor Duane Youngblood when he was a teenager or his older brother, Pastor Richard Edwin Youngblood.
JD Greear’s megachurch sues NC county for religious discrimination as it seeks to expand
Former Southern Baptist Convention President J.D. Greear’s multi-campus The Summit Church in North Carolina has filed a lawsuit against the Chatham County Board of Commissioners alleging religious discrimination after it rejected the megachurch’s request to rezone nearly 100 acres of land to house its Chapel Hill campus.
Decline of Christianity slows in US but future among the young looks bleak: study
Despite a consistent decline in the share of adults in the United States who identified as Christians over the last 17 years, the trend appears to have slowed in the last five years of a long-term Pew Research study.
Less than a year after wife’s suicide, Pastor John-Paul Miller accused of raping 15-year-old
Less than a year after his wife Mica Miller's suicide, Pastor John-Paul Miller of Solid Rock at Market Common in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, has been accused of raping a 15-year-old girl more than 25 years ago and sexually assaulting her again in 2023.
Widow of missionary Beau Shroyer formally charged with his murder in Angola
Jackie Shroyer, the 44-year-old wife of late Minnesota missionary Beau Shroyer, who is alleged to have been the mastermind behind a behind a murder-for-hire plot that led to his death in Lubango, Angola, last October, has been formally charged.
Pastor Jamal Bryant calls blacks who celebrated at White House ‘runaway slaves' and ‘coons’
Megachurch Pastor Jamal Bryant called a group of black supporters of President Donald Trump “runaway slaves” and “coons” on Sunday after they appeared to mock him at a recent Black History Month reception at the White House.
‘Cussing Pastor’ Thaddeus Matthews dies at 67; wife says he repented, made amends
Controversial leader of the Naked Truth Liberation and Empowerment Ministries in Memphis, Tennessee, Thaddeus Matthews, popularly known as the “Cussing Pastor,” has died.
Elevation Church fires Youth Pastor Tim Somers amid abuse investigation at Texas megachurch
Tim Somers, a youth pastor with Steven Furtick's Elevation Church in North Carolina, was fired from his role after he was accused of engaging in inappropriate conduct with former students at Oaks Church in Texas, where he served as an intern and staff member more than 10 years ago.
Megachurch Pastor Solomon Kinloch launches bid to become mayor of Detroit
With big plans to fight poverty, increase access to affordable housing and eliminate food deserts, Solomon Kinloch Jr., leader of the more than 35,000-member Triumph Church in Detroit, Michigan, launched his bid to become the city's mayor Wednesday.
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