Leonardo Blair
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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Kerry Washington says her marriage, husband and children ‘are proof of God to me’
Renowned actress, producer and activist, Kerry Washington, who stars in the Hulu series “Unprisoned,” says she sees “proof of God” in her marriage, husband and three children.
Many US churches saw bountiful crowds on Easter Sunday
On Easter Sunday, there may have been a renewed push to attend in-person worship services again, three years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Manhattan’s New Church sells historic building to Serbian gov’t for $15M
The New Church, a historic Manhattan building described as “one of New York’s most picturesque houses of worship” in the Murray Hill neighborhood, has been sold to the Serbian government for $15 million just over two years after the nearly 200-year-old congregation shuttered its doors and put the building up for sale in 2020.
Pastor, wife indicted in alleged sexual assault, child abuse of 'God daughters'
A Las Vegas pastor and his wife have been indicted on multiple charges of sexual assault, child abuse and other crimes they allegedly committed with multiple underage victims under their leadership 10 years ago.
Christian charity builds new home for family in just 11 days and they are moved to tears
A Kentucky family that lost their home in a flood last year were moved to tears Thursday when they were gifted a new house built by more than 150 volunteers from seven different states in just 11 days, thanks to the efforts of a Christian charity.
Hillsong Church attorneys say forensic audit found nothing ‘unlawful’ amid uproar over finances
A forensic review of Hillsong Church's finances by accounting firm Grant Thornton does not support allegations that the Australia-based megachurch network or its personnel engaged in "unlawful conduct." Allegations that funds were misappropriated reflect a "misunderstanding" that should be discussed in a "church context," attorneys say.
Mother of 7 shot dead in murder-suicide at Georgia Chick-fil-A, child asks father for Jesus’ number
A beloved mother of seven shot dead in her car at a Chick-fil-A drive-thru by her jealous ex-boyfriend, who also fatally shot himself Wednesday, was remembered as “everybody's friend” as her adopted granddaughter asked for Jesus’ number to give her a call in Heaven.
Hillsong Church paid TD Jakes $150K to speak for a day, Joyce Meyer comes close
T.D. Jakes received the highest one-day honorarium – nearly $150,000 – when compared to a long list of celebrity preachers, including Joyce Meyer and Joel Osteen, for preaching at the Hillsong Conference in Sydney over an eight year period according to a trove of financial documents from Hillsong Church first made public on March 9 by Andrew Wilkie, an independent member of the Australian Parliament.
Court docs suggest Brian Houston was in ‘blackout drunk' stage during DUI arrest
Court documents from Hillsong Church founder Brian Houston's February 2022 DUI arrest allege that he had a blood alcohol content of 0.20% or more, which addiction experts classify as the "blackout drunk" stage.
Missionary, pastor killed in wrong way crash on way to preach
A beloved missionary and pastor who was driving to preach at a local church in Michigan on Sunday has died after a wrong-way crash that state police say might have been triggered by a drunk driver.