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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Nearly 40% of Gen Z women identify as atheist, agnostic or have no faith: Barna
As they grapple with a profound disconnection from their parents and older adults in general, nearly 40% of young adult women in Generation Z now identify as religiously unaffiliated, according to new data released by Barna Research, which comes as other studies have shown that men are starting to outpace women in other key spiritual indicators.
Mississippi DA calls out gender bias as female youth pastor gets house arrest for child sexual abuse
A district attorney in Mississippi has slammed what he sees as gender bias after a female former youth pastor was sentenced to just three years of house arrest and seven years of additional probation for child sexual abuse.
Pastor Matthew Queen is back in the pulpit after serving sentence for lying to the feds
Seven months after receiving a six-month sentence for lying to federal investigators looking into sexual abuse in the Southern Baptist Convention, Matthew Queen is now back in the pulpit as a pastor in Texas.
Gateway Church accused of violating RICO in amended class-action lawsuit
Members of Gateway Church in Southlake, Texas, are accusing the church, founder Robert Morris and founding elder Steve Dulin of violating the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act of 1970.
Ex-county GOP chair pleads no contest to murder of pastor’s wife, grandchildren’s mother
More than a year after she was charged along with several others with the murder of her grandchildren’s mother Veronica Butler and Jilian Kelley, a beloved pastor’s wife, former Cimarron County GOP Chair Tifany Machel Adams has pleaded no contest to their murders in Texas County, Oklahoma.
James MacDonald says he settled defamation lawsuits against Mancow Muller, Harvest Bible Chapel for $10M
James MacDonald, the founder and former leader of Harvest Bible Chapel in greater Chicago, Illinois, says he has settled defamation lawsuits against his former church and, most recently, radio personality Erich "Mancow" Muller, for nearly $10 million.
Former missionary arrested in Florida for trafficking children from Argentina
A former missionary accused of transporting two teenagers from Argentina to North Carolina under the guise of religious ministry more than two decades ago and sexually abusing them has been arrested in Florida.
Pastor killed in Tennessee factory explosion was set to marry in weeks
A Tennessee pastor who was identified among 16 people killed in the Accurate Energetic Systems plant explosion near Bucksnort last Friday morning was just weeks away from his wedding.
Southlake Tahoe Mayor Tamara Wallace resigns after suicide attempt over stealing church funds
Following a suicide attempt and a later confession that it was due to guilt over embezzling an undisclosed sum of money from the Lake Tahoe Community Presbyterian Church, Tamara Wallace, the mayor of the city of South Lake Tahoe has resigned.
Joel Tudman claims disagreement with Henry Fernandez led to Faith Center firing
More than a month after he was abruptly fired as the senior pastor of the 10,000-member Faith Center Ministries in Sunrise, Florida, Joel Tudman has claimed his removal was due to a disagreement with the church’s founder, Bishop Henry Fernandez.
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