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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Church reels after murdered missionary’s wife arrested in connection with his death
Members of the Lakes Area Vineyard Church in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, where the late Beau Shroyer and his family were longtime members before moving to Lubango, Angola, to serve as missionaries in 2021, are now reeling in a complex web of emotions after learning that Beau’s wife, Jackie Shroyer, was arrested in connection with his murder in the southern African country just over a week ago.
Twin brother of murdered Texas pastor wants suspect jailed as he laments pace of justice
The Rev. Roland Mouton, the twin brother of the late East Bethel Missionary Baptist Church pastor the Rev. Ronald K. Mouton, who was fatally shot in the chest in June 2022 after a 10-second argument with an Uber driver in Houston, is calling for the suspect in his brother’s killing to be jailed for violating the terms of his bond as his laments the slow pace of justice for his family.
COGIC bishop anoints Kamala Harris with prayer, declares ‘I believe we have the victory’
Despite being rebuked by Pastor Donnie Swaggart for endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris to become the next president of the United States, Bishop John Drew Sheard, presiding bishop and chief apostle of the Church of God in Christ, defiantly anointed her with prayer before his congregation Sunday after declaring, “I believe we have the victory.”
Charles Goff, former Texas megachurch youth leader, arrested after confessing attraction to child porn
Charles Goff, a former volunteer youth leader at Beltway Park Church, a Baptist Evangelical multi-site megachurch in Abilene, Texas, who admitted to struggling with pornographic videos of teenage girls, has been arrested and charged Wednesday with possession of child pornography.
Former youth pastor, Daniel Mayfield, hit with more voyeurism charges, $1M bond
Daniel Kellan Mayfield, a former youth pastor in South Carolina who was already facing 106 charges related to voyeurism was hit with 38 more counts of voyeurism involving 24 victims as a judge granted him a $1 million bond on Tuesday.
Pastor Mark Driscoll says ‘there are no pro-choice Christians in Heaven,’ reveals he's voting for Trump
Prominent evangelical leader and founding pastor of Trinity Church in Scottsdale, Arizona, Mark Driscoll, called abortion “genocide” and has argued that pro-choice Christians won’t go to Heaven. Outspoken Southern Baptist Dwight McKissic, who founded and leads Cornerstone Baptist Church in Arlington, Texas, has counter-argued however, that Driscoll’s position could send Christians to Hell.
Man accused of pimping teen says he was ‘counselor’ at Macedonia 17th Street Baptist Church
An Alabama man accused of pimping and having sex with a teenager who had been selling nude content on Snapchat beginning when she was just 12, claims to have been a volunteer youth pastor at Macedonia 17th Street Baptist Church for the last 12 years, where he served as a “counselor” for children aged 5 to 18.
Young COGIC leaders call on Donnie Swaggart to repent for rebuking black church
Scores of young leaders in the Church of God In Christ, America’s largest black Pentecostal denomination, have called on evangelist Donnie Swaggart to publicly repent for his recent rebuke of the black Church.
First-time missionary killed in Angola months after family raised concern about security
Beau Shroyer, a pastor and former police officer from Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, who began working with his wife Jackie, and five children as missionaries in Lubango, Angola, for SIM-USA, was “killed while serving Jesus” last Friday, months after his family raised concern at a local church about ongoing security concerns they had at the mission. He was 44.
Atheist group demands coach Deion Sanders stop pre-game prayers with football team
Head coach of the Colorado Buffaloes football team, Super Bowl winner and NFL Hall of Famer Deion "Coach Prime" Sanders, is coming under fire from an atheist group for holding team prayers and other religious activities.
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