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.
A former Assemblies of God pastor who pleaded guilty to stealing more than $500,000 from Harrison Faith Church in Arkansas has been sentenced to 17 years of probation, 800 hours of community service and ordered to pay $100,000 of restitution to the church for his crimes.
Months after agreeing to pay former member and intern Tyler Bates $2 million to settle a lawsuit in which he alleges he was sexually abused as a teenager by a staff member while he slept, Grace Church, one of the biggest churches in Houston, Texas, founded by Steve Riggle has finally paid up after months of delay.
A man who worked as a math teacher at a public middle school in Manhattan has been arrested and charged with two counts of possession of child porn.
From the first song — the title track “I Will Not Be Moved” featuring Brad Hudson — until the last one, “No Other Name,” Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir has delivered an anointed masterpiece in praise and worship music with their latest album.
Another man who says he worked as T.D. Jakes’ youth pastor in the 1990s has accused the megachurch leader of trying to kiss him too, a week after Jakes formally denied allegations he sexually assaulted former pastor Duane Youngblood when he was a teenager or his older brother, Pastor Richard Edwin Youngblood.
Former Southern Baptist Convention President J.D. Greear’s multi-campus The Summit Church in North Carolina has filed a lawsuit against the Chatham County Board of Commissioners alleging religious discrimination after it rejected the megachurch’s request to rezone nearly 100 acres of land to house its Chapel Hill campus.
Despite a consistent decline in the share of adults in the United States who identified as Christians over the last 17 years, the trend appears to have slowed in the last five years of a long-term Pew Research study.
Less than a year after his wife Mica Miller's suicide, Pastor John-Paul Miller of Solid Rock at Market Common in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, has been accused of raping a 15-year-old girl more than 25 years ago and sexually assaulting her again in 2023.
Jackie Shroyer, the 44-year-old wife of late Minnesota missionary Beau Shroyer, who is alleged to have been the mastermind behind a behind a murder-for-hire plot that led to his death in Lubango, Angola, last October, has been formally charged.
Megachurch Pastor Jamal Bryant called a group of black supporters of President Donald Trump “runaway slaves” and “coons” on Sunday after they appeared to mock him at a recent Black History Month reception at the White House.
