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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Texas pastor resigns over ‘inappropriate and hurtful’ actions
Lead pastor of Cross Timbers Church in Argyle, Texas, Josiah Anthony, has resigned over “inappropriate and hurtful” actions meted out to current and former staff at the church due to a prolonged struggle with his “emotional and mental health,” elders have announced.
13-year-old budding preacher who lived for the ‘Glory of God’ killed for camera
Matthiew Stavkovy, a 13-year-old boy well-known at his local church in Kent, Washington, as a budding preacher, singer and musician, was mourned by his family and community Sunday, approximately two weeks after he was fatally shot in the back during the robbery of a camera.
Televangelist Benny Hinn’s wife files for divorce, again
Now living in separate homes more than 60 miles apart, Suzanne Hinn, the wife of controversial prosperity preacher and televangelist Benny Hinn, filed for divorce from her estranged husband last Friday, court records show.
Tom Lane, ex-Gateway Church executive pastor, says he didn’t know Cindy Clemishire was abused at 12
Tom Lane, a former executive pastor of Gateway Church in Southlake, Texas, who first responded to allegations from Cindy Clemishire, 54, that she was sexually abused by the megachurch’s founder, Robert Morris, says he wasn't aware that the abuse began when she was 12.
Brazilian skateboarder Rayssa Leal quotes John 14:6 after winning bronze medal in Paris
While many Christians expressed outrage at the debauchery and mockery of Christian symbolism celebrated during the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Paris, Christian athletes like 16-year-old Brazilian skateboarder Rayssa Leal are responding by using their visibility to celebrate their faith.
‘Prophet’ who killed wife outside her workplace sentenced to life in prison
Sylvester Ofori, a self-styled prophet and the former leader of Floodgates of Heaven International Ministries in Orlando, Florida, who fatally shot his estranged wife in 2020, was sentenced to life in prison Thursday for first-degree murder.
Robert Morris’ son exits Gateway Church; Max Lucado to serve as interim teaching pastor
Bestselling Christian author Max Lucado will join Gateway Church as a teaching pastor while James Morris, the son of the church's embattled founder Robert Morris, stepped down Thursday, only weeks after he succeeded his father at the helm of the church in June amid a child sex abuse scandal.
Sonya Massey’s son, mother say race contributed to her death after she rebuked officer in Jesus' name
The teenage son and mother of 36-year-old Sonya Massey who was shot dead by a sheriff's deputy inside her home in Springfield, Illinois, after she rebuked him "in the name of Jesus," say they believe race played a role in her death earlier this month.
IHOPKC’s board says 24/7 Prayer Room will no longer be connected to a church
After months of deliberation, the board of the embattled International House of Prayer Kansas City has decided that their vaunted 24/7 Prayer Room will not be operated under the umbrella of any church following the shuttering of several arms of the ministry, including the Forerunner Church, in the wake of a sexual misconduct scandal involving founder Mike Bickle.
Ex-church assistant stole $300K in offerings to feed TikTok addiction
A former administrative assistant at the St. Francis of Assisi University Parish in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, is now facing a possible 20 years in prison after she plead guilty to stealing some $300,000 from her church and spending most of the money on gifts for TikTok content creators leaving church officials baffled.
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