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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Brian Houston returns to pulpit, says ‘there is so much more in me’
Hillsong Church founder Brian Houston insisted in what appeared to be his first pulpit appearance since his resignation in March that God doesn’t write people off as men do and that he still has “so much more” to give at the age of 68.
Acts 29 joins Village Church in suspending Matt Chandler over Instagram messages as Evangelicals react
Global church planting network Acts 29 said it has “asked” the president and chairman of their board, Matt Chandler, “to step aside from Acts 29 speaking engagements” following a decision by The Village Church in Flower Mound, Texas, to suspend him over his inappropriate communication with a woman who is not his wife on Instagram.
In final sermon at Saddleback Church, Rick Warren drives home the purpose driven life
In his final sermon as lead pastor of the California-based Saddleback Church on Sunday, Rick Warren returned to the very first message he delivered to a small group of strangers in 1980 to start the church. It was the message of a purpose-driven life that made him a global household name after he immortalized the essence of that message in his bestselling book, "The Purpose Driven Life" in 2002.
Pastor Matt Chandler takes ‘leave of absence’ over inappropriate Instagram messages with woman
Matt Chandler, lead pastor of teaching at The Village Church in the Dallas/Fort Worth area, announced he's accepted a decision by his elder board to immediately take a “leave of absence” due to his use of inappropriate language in Instagram messages to a woman who is not his wife.
Hillsong Church purges global board to make room for diversity, include at least 40% women
Hillsong Church announced a raft of changes Tuesday meant to improve leadership in the megachurch network, including a purge of several directors from the church’s global board to create a more diverse body that will be at least 40% women.
Elder convicted of killing wife attended church of pastor who cursed congregation for Movado watch
Robert Harris, a former church elder who was charged with killing his wife after less than two years of marriage, has been convicted of first-degree murder.
Hillsong Church Australia suffers marked drop in giving, attendance amid COVID-19, scandals: report
Hillsong Church Australia suffered significant drops in both giving and church attendance in 2021 as the COVID-19 pandemic marched into its second year and a series of sex and financial scandals enveloped the denomination in the U.S. and Australia.
Hillsong Church making changes amid financial abuse lawsuit, Phil Dooley says
Hillsong Church’s Interim Global Senior Pastor Phil Dooley says changes to the organizational structure of the denomination are currently underway after a suspended employee alleged in a recent lawsuit that the Australia-based megachurch misappropriated donations and gave "large cash gifts" to former Global Senior Pastor Brian Houston, his family and other church leaders.
First Baptist Fort Lauderdale sold $1.2M property for ‘higher’ than assessed value, church reveals
Responding to withering allegations that church leaders discreetly sold a prime piece of real estate in downtown Fort Lauderdale worth more than $1.2 million for just "$10 and other good and valuable considerations," First Baptist Fort Lauderdale leaders revealed late Thursday that the land was sold for “considerably higher than the appraised value.”
Success in school more favorable for students who live with married, biological parents: study
While society has increasingly embraced alternative families like single-parent homes and step-families, a new Institute for Family Studies research brief suggests students who live with their married biological parents perform better in school.
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