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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Ex-Denton Bible Church pastor who abused 14 girls released after 25 months for good behavior
Robert Shiflet, a former youth pastor at Denton Bible Church in Texas who was sentenced to just 33 months due to a sentencing miscalculation after he was accused of sexually abusing 14 young girls placed under his care, is now free after his sentence was reduced to 25 months for good behavior.
Jeremy Foster, Hope City Church founder who resigned over affair, breaks silence
Jeremy Foster, the founder of Hope City Church in Houston, Texas, who resigned as the church's senior pastor just over a year ago after confessing to adultery, announced Sunday that he is now "at peace," has remarried and wants to help people with the gifts God has given him.
‘God please help us:’ Family loses 5 children in fiery crash after teen slams car into tree
A grieving mother desperately begged God for help just hours after five children, including two of her own, died Sunday after the car they were traveling in with a 16-year-old driver crashed and burst into flames along the Hutchinson River Parkway near the Mamaroneck Road exit in Scarsdale, New York.
Ex-SBC Pres. Johnny Hunt confesses to ‘only kissing and some awkward fondling’ in defamation suit
Former Southern Baptist Convention president Johnny Hunt has admitted to "only kissing and some awkward fondling" between himself and the wife of a younger minister who accused him of sexual assault while on a beach vacation with his family 12 years ago.
Marvin Winans’ Perfecting Church spent $200K on real estate project Detroit wants to take back
Grammy-winning gospel singer Marvin Winans says his Perfecting Church in Detroit, Michigan, spent $200,000 last year to restart a stalled church building project on a prime piece of real estate city officials have branded “a massive example of blight and misuse of land” and are jockeying to take back.
Christian psychiatrist reveals 3 things faith leaders can do to protect their mental health
Driven in part by the suicide of her church leader uncle in 2021, Dr. Ayana Jordan, a Christian addiction psychiatrist recommended several things faith leaders can put into practice to ensure they're “functioning optimally” as they work to serve their communities.
Bishop Lamor Whitehead allegedly faked bank records to finance NJ mansion
Just over two months after he was charged with fraud, extortion and lying to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Brooklyn Bishop Lamor Whitehead of Leaders of Tomorrow International Ministries has been accused of faking bank records in order to buy his mansion in Paramus, New Jersey.
Calling himself a ‘miracle of God,’ Mayor Eric Adams wants New York City to be a place of faith
Boldly declaring himself an unapologetic “man of God” and lamenting that Americans have lost their faith, New York City Mayor Eric Adams issued a call to local faith leaders to work with him to make the city a place of faith and healing and help “introduce faith back into our families.”
Hillsong Church lost $2.6M on defunct Dallas, Atlanta campuses: report
Hillsong Church invested $2.6 million in two campuses it was forced to abandon in Dallas, Texas, and Atlanta, Georgia, in 2021 and 2022, data from a whistleblower's report on the global network reviewed by The Christian Post shows.
Hillsong Church announces changes in financial stewardship following whistleblower’s report
Hillsong Church announced a raft of changes in how it manages its finances on Sunday, following a whistleblower’s report alleging that the church’s founder Brian Houston and other leaders, including the newly appointed Global Senior Pastor Phil Dooley, engaged in money laundering, tax evasion and shopping sprees that would "embarrass a Kardashian."
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