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.
President Donald Trump has directed the U.S. Department of Education and several other federal agencies to look for ways to expand school choice for families to improve student performance as the nation's latest report card shows American students falling behind in reading and stagnating in math,
As America grapples with the nation’s deadliest commercial airline crash since 2001, after a midair collision between an American Airlines jet and an Army helicopter left 67 people dead Wednesday, pastors across the country are now sharing prayers and other words of comfort as profiles of the victims slowly emerge online.
Wichita, Kansas, the city from where an American Airlines jet departed Wednesday, with 64 people on board before crashing midair with a U.S. Army helicopter carrying three soldiers near Reagan National Airport, is set to host a community prayer meeting as officials gave up hope of finding survivors Thursday.
More than half of fourth graders nationwide have not mastered reading at a proficient level for their grade, and the share of students considered proficient is now 2 percentage points lower than two years earlier, new data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress shows.
The parents of an 8-year-old girl, her adult brother and 11 other members of a small, tongues-talking Pentecostal sect in Toowoomba, Australia, were convicted of manslaughter Wednesday for causing her death by withholding lifesaving insulin needed to treat her Type 1 diabetes because of their religious beliefs.
Five years after former Hillsong Global Chief Marketing Officer Global Grant Thomson was named Bible Society Australia's new CEO, he abruptly resigned after the organization posted a nearly $4.5 million (AU$7.2 million) deficit.
Pastor Richard Edwin Youngblood, the older brother of Duane Youngblood who Bishop T.D. Jakes of The Potter's House has hit with a defamation lawsuit for alleging the megachurch pastor sexually assaulted him when he was a teenager some 40 years ago, has accused Jakes of trying to have sex with him too.
Declaring that it is the right thing to do, Senior Pastor Jon Weece of Southland Christian Church has announced plans to step down from the helm of one of the state’s largest churches and become a regular member.
The Rev. John F. Fiedler, a former minister at Highland Park United Methodist Church in Dallas, Texas, retired last month following an arrest for solicitation of prostitution at a massage parlor.
On a flight to New York City one Sunday, Molly Matthews watched the regularly scheduled worship service at her home church in Washington state from her phone. She needed to be at a business conference downtown the next day and thanks to her church’s livestream broadcast, she was able to stay connected with her congregation on her way out of town.
