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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Fmr. Worship with Wonders Church leader sentenced to 25 years for abuse of middle school-aged boy
Myles and DeLana Rutherford, the senior pastors of Worship with Wonders Church in Powder Springs, Georgia, say Marcus Kendall Turner, a former employee who was recently sentenced to 25 years in prison for sex crimes against a teenage boy, wasn't an employee when he committed the crimes.
Glow Church founder Joel Cave reveals he suffered mental breakdown
Some four months after leaders at Glow Church on the Gold Coast in Australia announced that their husband and wife co-founders, Joel and Ellen Cave, had separated and stepped back from ministry, Joel Cave revealed he was hospitalized with a mental breakdown and is still in recovery.
Pastor Nathan Peternel to step away from pulpit for restoration after AOG review
Lead pastor of the multicampus Life Church in Pendleton, Indiana, Nathan Peternel, is set to step away from his pulpit Sunday to begin a period of restoration for violating the Assemblies of God bylaws concerning “moral transgression involving pornography.”
Pastor Justin Edwards denies ‘close’ relationship with Bishop E. Bernard Jordan, says he was 'contract laborer'
Justin D. Edwards, senior pastor of Holy Cross Baptist Church South in Chicago, Illinois, has denied having a “close personal” unpaid relationship with televangelist Elijah Bernard Jordan, better known as Archbishop E. Bernard Jordan, and insists he was a “contract laborer” for the New York City minister.
‘Acts 29’ Vice President, Vintage Church Pastor Tyler Jones terminated after confessing affair
Tyler Jones, vice president of church planting at Acts 29 Network, who also served as the longtime pastor of Vintage Church in North Carolina, has been removed from both positions after confessing to a years-long “inappropriate relationship with a woman.”
A third of Christians trust spiritual advice from AI as much as pastor: study
About a third of practicing American Christians say the spiritual advice they get from artificial intelligence is just as good as that from a pastor, with practicing Christians more likely to agree with this notion than non-practicing Christians and non-Christians, according to new research from the Barna Group.
Pastor Ted Shuttlesworth Jr. steps away from ministry over adultery: report
Miracle Word Ministries co-founder Pastor Ted Shuttlesworth Jr. has reportedly stepped away from leadership temporarily after confessing to adultery and engaging in “multiple inappropriate conversations” outside his marriage.
Pastor’s mistress, LaToshia Daniels, gets nearly 21 years in prison for his murder
LaToshia Daniels, the former social worker who was found guilty of second-degree murder last November for the 2019 killing of Pastor Brodes Perry of Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church in Memphis, Tennessee, was sentenced to nearly 21 years in prison for her crime on Tuesday.
Fatal shooting of Pastor Pedro Cantu by roommate remains under investigation
Authorities in Houston, Texas, said the fatal shooting of Amor y Restauración (Love and Restoration) church lead pastor, Pedro Cantu, by his roommate at his home last Saturday is still under investigation as the burglar who allegedly sparked the tragedy remains behind bars.
Televangelist E. Bernard Jordan seeks at least $80M in lawsuit against Larry Reid, pastors, YouTubers
A Manhattan federal judge has ordered that a defamation lawsuit seeking at least $80 million in damages filed by televangelist E. Bernard Jordan against two pastors, popular media personality Larry Reid, and several YouTubers alleging they used illicit telephone recordings to make defamatory comments about him, be transferred to the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey.
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