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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Evangelical Lutheran Church sues pastor over sale of $2M NYC ‘parsonage’ apartment
The Metropolitan New York Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America has sued one of their pastors for signing a contract to sell a $2 million Manhattan cooperative apartment he was given to use as a parsonage more than 30 years ago.
California prosecutors fabricated case against megachurch preacher accused of sex crimes: defense
Weeks before his trial begins in May, the defense team of controversial megachurch leader Naasón Joaquín García, who is accused of multiple sex crimes, including making sex videos with minor girls from his flock at La Luz Del Mundo, has accused prosecutors in California of fabricating evidence in his case.
73% of US counties had more deaths than births in 2021: Census report
Driven by the deadly COVID-19 pandemic, some 73% of U.S. counties registered more deaths than births in 2021 and states in the Northeast experienced the most widespread natural decrease in population, according to data released by the U.S. Census Bureau.
Hillsong Phoenix pastor announces separation from Hillsong Church, calls for investigation of board
Hillsong Phoenix Lead Pastor Terry Crist announced Sunday that he has formally asked to separate from the global megachurch due to a governance dispute in the wake of the resignation of founder Brian Houston. He also called for an investigation of the global board of the Australia-based church network.
AME Church will no longer allow ‘one person to count the money’ after nearly $100M goes missing
A retired minister has filed a class-action lawsuit against the African Methodist Episcopal Church after nearly $100 million has gone missing from the church's retirement fund after "foolish" investments, forcing the denomination to freeze plan funds and distributions as it investigates the matter with the help of federal agencies.
Former Hillsong Dallas Pastor Reed Bogard resigned after he was accused of rape, investigation reveals
Less than two weeks after Reed Bogard abruptly resigned as lead pastor of the now-defunct Hillsong Dallas in January 2021, an internal investigation commissioned by Hillsong Global showed that he was accused rape by a junior female staffer with whom he had a monthslong affair.
Americans are leaving church and most aren’t coming back: report
A new report released Thursday by the American Enterprise Institute shows that despite the proven benefits of belonging to a faith community, Americans are increasingly leaving organized religion with each subsequent generation and the majority aren’t coming back.
So. Baptist group nominates Voddie Baucham for president of SBC Pastor’s Conference
Voddie Baucham, the dean of theology at African Christian University in Zambia, will be formally nominated as the president of the Southern Baptist Convention Pastor’s Conference at the denomination’s annual meeting in Anaheim, California, in June.
Hillsong Church founder Brian Houston resigns after revelation of misconduct
Hillsong Church founder Brian Houston has formally resigned from his post as global senior pastor in the wake of recent revelations that two women made serious complaints of misconduct against him in the last 10 years, officials announced Wednesday.
Most Christians see their spiritual lives as private, but outlook clashes with their role as disciples: study
While Christians by definition are disciples of Jesus who accept and help with the spreading of the Gospel, a majority see their spiritual lives as private which is counterproductive to their mission in society, a new report from Barna Research shows.
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