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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Hillsong Church operated lucrative honorarium scheme for celebrity preachers: report
Hillsong Church operated an honorarium scheme that could net upwards of $1 million in additional and sometimes tax-free income annually for celebrity preachers worldwide, including founders Brian Houston and his wife, Bobbie, and famous author and evangelist Christine Caine, a new whistleblowers report alleges.
Hillsong Church charged Compassion International $1M annually for promotion: report
Hillsong Church has been charging child sponsorship and Christian humanitarian aid organization Compassion International $1 million annually to do God's work in helping young children through a partnership a new whistleblower's report has called “disgusting.”
Most Americans view ‘wokeness’ as a positive term even though many conservatives don’t: study
While many prominent conservatives have dismissed the term "wokeness" as a threat to the Gospel, a new USA Today/Ipsos poll shows that most Americans view it as simply an awareness of social injustices instead of a term demanding that people be "overly politically correct" or a policing of language.
Pastor of First Baptist Fort Lauderdale abruptly quits ‘to pursue other interests’
Four years into his reign at the historic First Baptist Fort Lauderdale church in Florida, which was marred by public disputes over his leadership style and financial management, Lead Pastor James Welch abruptly quit this week “to pursue other interests.”
Arizona Christian University sues school district for banning student teachers over religious beliefs
Arizona Christian University filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against the Washington Elementary School District in Arizona alleging religious discrimination after the district's five-member governing board, which includes three members of the LGBT community, voted to ban its student teachers from public school classrooms for practicing biblical Christianity.
6-year-old who shot teacher in Virginia classroom won’t face charges but adults may
A troubled 6-year-old boy who shot a teacher in the chest as she taught his class at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, Virginia, in January will not face criminal charges, Newport News Commonwealth's Attorney Howard Gwynn has revealed.
Hillsong leaders accused of money laundering, tax evasion, shopping that would ‘embarrass a Kardashian’
Citing documents turned over by a whistleblower, an independent member of the Australian Parliament accused Hillsong Church founder Brian Houston and other leaders of money laundering, tax evasion and shopping sprees that would "embarrass a Kardashian."
Family pastor blames mental illness for mom killing 3 children, says survivors need prayer
The pastor of a maternal great-grandmother of the five children brutally stabbed by their 25-year-old mother which result in three of them dying in Italy, Texas, last Friday blamed the attack on mental illness and urged the public to pray for the two children who survived and their grieving family members.
So. Baptist pastor resigns after arrest for driving intoxicated with unlicensed weapon, child in car
Drew Erickson, The lead teaching pastor at Travis Avenue Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Texas, resigned Sunday after his arrest for allegedly driving while intoxicated with a child under 15 and possession of an unlawful weapon.
Pastor allegedly drugged, raped married parishioner he promised ‘spiritual revival’
A Florida pastor who allegedly drugged and raped a married parishioner after promising her a “spiritual revival” in his home was recently arrested on two counts of sexual battery and the Osceola County Sheriff’s Office believes there might be more victims.
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