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.
Marriage among men appears to be more popular after age 45, but it’s also the age when women's interest in the institution begins to wane, a recent analysis of national marriage and divorce data by the law firm Koth Gregory & Nieminski show.
Two brothers who are retired New York Police Department officers thwarted a 26-year-old woman’s attempt to torch Martin Luther King Jr.’s historic boyhood home while on a visit to Atlanta, Georgia, last Thursday were both recognized with an Outstanding Citizen Award by the NYPD on Saturday.
Parishioners at the St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Fort Calhoun, Nebraska, were left in mourning after their priest, Rev. Stephen Gutgsell, was fatally stabbed at the church during a break-in Sunday morning.
Almost two dozen students from Layton Christian Academy and an airman from the Hill Air Force Base became real life heroes Tuesday when they lifted a car in the parking lot of their school to save a mother and her two young children who got pinned underneath the vehicle after they got hit by another car.
Nearly two years after Hillsong Church founder Brian Houston formally resigned as global senior pastor of the megachurch network amid revelations that two women made allegations of misconduct against him, he is getting ready to make a comeback with a new online ministry and church in 2024.
Jarrett Booker, a father, husband and pastor of students and worship at Nashua Baptist Church in New Hampshire, left his family, friends and church community with a double dose of shock and grief when he died by suicide two days after being fired for allegedly sexually abusing minors. He was 37.
Churches, in general, experienced a drop in cash donations for the first time in 10 years in 2022, except for those pulling in revenue of $20 million or more, data from the 2023 Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability State of Giving report show.
A woman who alleges International House of Prayer Kansas City founder Mike Bickle wooed her with Scripture when she was just 19, and he was 42, said he made her a kept woman for several years as he was establishing his ministry and did everything with her sexually except intercourse.
Approximately seven years after he was fired from NewSpring Church in South Carolina for alcohol abuse and other "unfortunate choices and decisions," Perry Noble is thanking God for allowing him back into the megachurch space with the announcement of the Greenville campus of his Second Chance Church.
Presiding prelate of The Fellowship of Affirming Ministries, Bishop Yvette Flunder, who late former megachurch pastor Carlton Pearson said he wanted to speak at his homegoing service shortly before he passed on Nov.19, says Pastor Michael Todd’s Transformation Church barred her from preaching a eulogy at their service in Pearson’s honor on Friday due to a dispute over inclusion.
