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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2 charged with hate crime after murdering young black youth pastor, father
Two people were charged last Friday with the murder of Justin Peoples, a black 30-year-old Navy veteran, youth pastor and father of two, who was fatally shot and stabbed at a California gas station last Tuesday in what authorities have called an “unprovoked” hate crime.
Celebration Church Pastor Tim Timberlake says he isn't going anywhere despite founder's lawsuit
Tim Timberlake, the current lead pastor of the 12,000-member Celebration Church in Jacksonville, Florida, assured his congregation Sunday that the church is “OK” and he and his wife, Jen, “aren’t going anywhere” despite a lawsuit from founding pastor Stovall Weems and his wife, Kerri, over who controls the church.
Most US adults think country is moving in wrong direction morally, turning to family for guidance: study
A majority of Americans, including Christians and non-Christians, are concerned that America’s moral compass is pointed in the wrong direction and they're turning to family for guidance, according to a survey released by Deseret News.
Hillsong Church not built on ‘any one person,’ leader says amid Brian Houston scandal
Through tears, Hillsong Church’s Interim Global Senior Pastor Phil Dooley reminded congregants on Sunday that their church is “built on Jesus, not just on any one person” in the wake of new allegations of misconduct against founding pastor Brian Houston.
Working-class Christian boys with strong faith in God do better in school than less religious peers: study
Teenage Christian boys from working class families who regularly participate in their church and demonstrate strong faith in God are twice as likely to earn bachelor’s degrees as their moderately religious or nonreligious peers new research shows.
Hillsong founder Brian Houston was drunk inside a woman’s hotel room for 40 minutes, church reveals
Hillsong Church founder Brian Houston violated the church's code of conduct by entering the hotel room of an unidentified woman for 40 minutes while under the influence of alcohol and prescription drugs during the church’s annual conference in 2019, officials revealed Friday.
Stovall Weems files lawsuit against Celebration Church amid dueling claims of financial fraud
Founders of the 12,000-member Celebration Church in Jacksonville, Florida, Stovall Weems and his wife Kerri, have filed a lawsuit seeking an injunction that would force the megachurch to recognize Weems as their chief executive officer and settle dueling claims of financial fraud involving hundreds of thousands of dollars.
John Perkins is facing death and his final message to America is: ‘repent’
John Perkins is dying. He’s dying of old age after multiple bouts with cancer. And at 91, one of America’s most prominent Evangelical voices on civil rights and racial reconciliation wants to send an urgent final message to America: repent.
Pastor says he’s ready to be ‘authentic’ self after arrest for debt owed to former parishioners
Anthony Knotts, pastor of the Embassy Church International in Greensboro, North Carolina, and owner of Seafood Destiny, said he is now ready to be his “authentic” self after racking up more than $100,000 in loans and penalty charges on a credit card he borrowed from former parishioners.
Woman accused of setting fire to houses of worship practiced dark magic, friends say
Former friends of a Connecticut woman who was charged with starting fires in a church and a Jewish synagogue on Friday said she recently went down a path worshiping the devil and practicing dark magic and is now in need of psychological help.
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