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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Several months before a gunman attempted to assassinate former president and presumptive 2024 GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump on Saturday, conservative media personality Tucker Carlson and a pastor identified as Prophet Brandon Briggs, predicted that an attempt would be made to kill Trump.
Village Church Denton hired Matt Chandler’s father despite past child sex abuse, podcast alleges
The Village Church Denton, a former campus of Pastor Matt Chandler's The Village Church in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, reportedly hired Chandler's father, Steve Chandler, to work as the church's custodian and kept him on staff for five years after he confessed to child sexual abuse.
Pastors slam Todd Starnes for urging Christians to leave churches if they didn’t preach on Trump attack
Conservative media personality Todd Starnes has come under fire from a number of pastors after he urged Christians to leave their church if their pastor didn't address the assassination attempt on the life of former President Donald Trump from their pulpits on Sunday.
‘Mr. President, let your bloodied ear lead you to Jesus Christ,’ says Pastor Jack Hibbs
Megachurch Pastor Jack Hibbs says the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump’s life on Saturday is a warning shot from God urging him to “bow the knee” and truly get to know the Lord.
Stonebriar Community Church fires associate pastor for undisclosed ‘moral failure’
Stonebriar Community Church, a non-denominational megachurch in Frisco, Texas, that attracts around 3,000 weekly attendees and thousands more online, has fired its longtime associate pastor of equipping, Tony Cammarota, after he confessed to an undisclosed "moral failure" that disqualifies him from ministry.
Baltimore megachurch promises investigation after dozens allege childhood sex abuse
Greater Grace World Outreach, a global nondenominational Evangelical megachurch headquartered at Greater Grace Church in Baltimore, Maryland, has pledged to commission an independent investigation after dozens of former members say they were sexually abused as kids primarily by prominent male church members or leaders.
LexCity Church permanently shutters after former pastor charged with rape, sodomy of minor
Just over a week after former Executive Pastor Zachary King was charged with the rape and sexual abuse of a minor, LexCity Church in Lexington, Kentucky, has permanently shuttered because it wouldn't be "financially viable" to continue.
Robert Morris’ attorney blamed 12-year-old Cindy Clemishire for getting into his bed, initiating abuse
A former attorney for Gateway Church founder Robert Morris suggested Cindy Clemishire, a 54-year-old woman who accused him of sexually abusing her over multiple years as a child, is partly to blame because she climbed into his bed when she was 12. He also stated that she acted inappropriately with two other adult men in her home as a child.
Lakewood Church, others jump in to help after Hurricane Beryl batters coastal Texas
After Hurricane Beryl barreled into coastal Texas on Monday morning, Joel Osteen's Lakewood Church in Houston is among several churches using their resources to help communities in need, with over 1.6 million homes and businesses remaining without power Wednesday.
Missing Chicago pastor found dead in Des Plaines River; colleague insists he was not suicidal
Rev. Warren Beard, a beloved father of five, Sunday school teacher and assistant pastor at New Israelite Missionary Baptist Church in Chicago, Illinois, who had been missing since July 2, was found dead Tuesday in the Des Plaines River. He was 53.
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