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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New leader of New York’s iconic Abyssinian Baptist Church wants to keep ‘high culture’ alive
While many churches across America have ditched dressing up for service in favor of a come as you are policy, at the historic Abyssinian Baptist Church, the congregation’s new leader, the Rev. Kevin R. Johnson, wants to make traditional worship with men in suits and women in dresses cool for the next generation.
Woman accusing Pastor John-Paul Miller of assault speaks out after his release from jail
A woman who says she was assaulted by Pastor John-Paul Miller of Solid Rock at Market Common church in South Carolina as she protested with a group seeking justice surrounding the passing of his late wife by suicide is now speaking out after he was released from jail last Thursday.
Friends shocked Jackie Shroyer charged in murder of missionary husband
Friends of Jackie Shroyer, who was recently charged in connection with the death of her missionary husband, Beau Shroyer, are reeling in shock at allegations that the mother of five plotted with three men in the southern African country to carry out the violent murder of her late husband on Oct. 25.
Master portrait artist Zimou Tan launches Kickstarter campaign for book celebrating the Gospel in art
Months after his successful solo exhibition featuring a compelling selection of his religious paintings billed “The Lord was There” in New York earlier this year, Christian master portrait artist Zimou Tan is now on a mission to make his work more accessible to art lovers of faith and he launched a Kickstarter campaign Tuesday to help him reach it.
Ex-Southern Baptist professor Matthew Queen resigns from Friendly Avenue Baptist Church
Weeks after failing to reach an agreement with Pastor Matthew Queen to vacate his position after he pleaded guilty to making a false statement to federal authorities about a sexual abuse investigation, Friendly Avenue Baptist Church in Greensboro, North Carolina, announced that he has resigned.
Fundraiser launched to help 5 children of murdered missionary Beau Shroyer
A GoFundMe campaign seeking to help the family of murdered missionary Beau Shroyer is hoping to raise at least $15,000 to repatriate his body to the U.S. and help his five children navigate “unimaginable loss and uncertainty” as his wife, Jackie Shroyer, faces charges in Angola for allegedly masterminding a murder plot.
Before leaving for Angola, missionary and wife charged with his murder shared troubled paths to Jesus
Barely a year after the COVID-19 pandemic began in March 2021, and shortly before they would jet off to Angola in southern Africa with their five children to do missionary work, Beau Shroyer and his wife Jackie Shroyer who was recently charged in connection with his Oct. 25 murder, shared their troubled paths to Jesus and what made them so willing to dive into the mission field no matter the cost.
Pastor Greg Locke reneges on offer to refund tithes amid church dispute
After promising to refund the donations of members who questioned the stewardship of his church's finances, outspoken Tennessee Pastor Greg Locke has reneged on that offer. His attorney has allegedly threatened at least one donor who asked for their money back.
Jackson Gatlin, former Vineyard Church pastor, takes plea deal for criminal sexual conduct
Jackson Gatlin, a former young adult and online community pastor at The Vineyard Church in Duluth, Minnesota, who was charged last year with sexually abusing five teenage girls, will likely spend at least 13 years in prison and have to register as a sex offender when his sentence is complete after he accepted a plea deal for one of the five charges Wednesday.
Bethel Church enters Hillsong territory with new church plant in Sydney
Bill Johnson’s Bethel Church in Redding, California, announced Sunday that it has planted a new church in Sydney, Australia, where Hillsong Church is headquartered.
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