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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Rapper Cardi B declares age 33 ‘the Jesus year,’ sees herself among Christ’s ‘favorites’
Cardi B, a popular rapper known for raunchy songs like “WAP," says she credits God for all her success and considers age 33 to be her "Jesus year.”
Church says pastor pointed gun at congregation to encourage ‘spiritual violence against unbelief’
Leaders at Legacy Faith Church in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, are now defending their founding pastor, Philip Thornton, after he came under fire for repeatedly pointing an unloaded gun at congregants during a September sermon they say was used as a prop to encourage “spiritual violence against unbelief.”
Christian singer Amy Grant wins court battle over church started by her grandfather
After a years-long legal dispute over a downtown Nashville church founded by her great-grandfather, six-time Grammy-winning Christian pop singer Amy Grant and her family members have finally won it back.
Judge denies most of $76K legal fees sought by TD Jakes in defamation lawsuit
U.S. District Judge William S. Stickman has denied most of a petition from Bishop T.D. Jakes seeking more than $76,000 from the former attorney of Duane Youngblood, who accused Jakes of sexually assaulting him 40 years ago.
Men now surpass women in church attendance, especially among Gen X, millennials: Barna
In a shift that has become much more noticeable in five of the last six years, men, especially among millennials and Generation X, have been outpacing women in church attendance. The trend spiked significantly this year, a new Barna report has found.
Pastor used more than $400K of church funds for personal items, lied on tax return: court
Adrian Davis, the former lead pastor at the now-defunct Huntsville, Alabama, campus of All Nations Worship Assembly, pleaded guilty to spending over $400,000 of the church’s funds on personal expenses and filing a false tax return.
California mayor claims guilt over embezzling money from church drove her to suicide attempt
Claiming she was racked by guilt over her sin, Tamara Wallace, the mayor of South Lake Tahoe and administrator for the Lake Tahoe Community Presbyterian Church, has confessed to embezzling an undisclosed sum of money from the church, which led to a failed suicide attempt.
Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship founder Tony Evans is restored to ministry after discipline for undisclosed sin
Elders at the 11,000-member Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship Church in Dallas, Texas, announced Sunday that while founder Pastor Tony Evans has been restored to ministry after stepping down more than a year ago due to a sin that was not publicly disclosed, he won't be returning to a staff position or any leadership role.
Nelson Makanda wants to train 200,000 pastors to meet Africa’s Evangelical boom
On a wet Thursday in September, Rev. Nelson Makanda was busy appealing to the United States President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief as world leaders talked politics and diplomacy at the United Nations General Assembly.
Robert Morris to spend 6 months in prison after pleading guilty to child sex abuse
Robert Morris, the founder of Gateway Church in Southlake, Texas, was punished with a six-month prison term and a 10-year suspended sentence after pleading guilty Thursday to sexually abusing the now 55-year-old Cindy Clemishire beginning when she was 12 in the 1980s."
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