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.
A young Tennessee mother who nearly lost her two children as a massive tornado swept her family out of their home earlier this month is thanking God for keeping her 4-month-old son alive. He was found in a tree after the tornado separated him from the family.
Steven W. Smith, pastor of the more than century-old Immanuel Baptist Church in Little Rock, Arkansas, apologized to his congregation Sunday for not disclosing that a former church official charged with guiding children had been credibly accused of abusing minors at the church while their parents were busy with worship.
A former South Carolina pastor who was convicted of sexually molesting his two daughters in his parsonage for years before they were eventually able to disclose his abuse as adults, was sentenced to 40 years in prison for his crimes.
Pastor Sam Collier is “in disbelief.” This wasn’t the way his love story was supposed to end. In the beginning, he had imagined doing life with Toni Collier forever. Now they're facing divorce.
A North Carolina pastor has been placed on administrative leave after he was arrested and subsequently replaced for allegedly spending $540 of his small-town church’s money for his personal use.
Eric Volz, International House of Prayer Kansas City’s new spokesperson, who serves as managing director of international crisis agency, David House, announced Sunday that the leaders of the ministry have hired a new third-party investigator to review allegations of abuse against founder Mike Bickle.
A former Alabama pastor who was institutionalized and ordered to undergo mental health treatment after he was found not guilty of killing his wife and attacking his daughter by reason of mental defect in 2013 is now seeking to stop his treatment so he can live close to his family again, but a judge has insisted he continue getting help.
A week after celebrating their new life together as husband and wife, a Florida pastor and his new bride were shot dead outside their home on Saturday by the woman’s ex-husband.
More than a month after leaders of International House of Prayer Kansas City announced that at least one allegation of abuse including “sexual immorality” made against the ministry’s founder Mike Bickle has “some credibility,” the embattled minister confessed on Tuesday to sinful misconduct he committed over 20 years ago.
As Florida business owner Joe Mills remembers it, all the questions about whether the 14,000-member First Baptist Church Orlando is now affirming same-sex relationships, began after he started a Bible study group on Facebook with two of his gay friends called The Gospel Gathering.
