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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Robert Morris’ son-in-law, Ethan Fisher, renames Gateway Church Houston in wake of scandal
Further distancing himself from the Gateway Church brand in what he describes as a call from God, Ethan Fisher, senior pastor of Gateway Church Houston, who is also the son-in-law of embattled Gateway Church founder Robert Morris, announced Sunday that his church has been renamed Newlands Church in the wake of child sex abuse allegations against his father-in-law.
Pastor Josiah Anthony engaged in sexual messaging with women, Cross Timbers Church reveals
Days after claiming their former lead pastor resigned over “inappropriate and hurtful” behavior toward current and former staff that was not sexual, elders of Cross Timbers Church in Argyle, Texas, said they discovered that Josiah Anthony engaged in behavior that was sexual in nature and are bracing for more allegations to come.
Mistress of 'Jesus Christ Money Master' author gets life in prison for role in Ponzi scheme
Debra Mae Carter, the mistress of former Texas radio host William Neil "Doc" Gallagher, who wrote the Jesus Christ, Money Master Leader Guide, was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday for her role in a Ponzi scheme that defrauded more than 190 people — many of whom were older adult Christians — of more than $31 million.
Megachurch Pastor Keion Henderson says God told him followers will give $4.4 million in 3 weeks
After Hurricane Beryl caused $20 million in damage to three of his church’s four campuses, Pastor Keion Henderson, founder, CEO and leader of The Lighthouse Church & Ministries in Houston, Texas, says God told him He damaged the churches so he can rebuild facilities twice as big and his followers will give him approximately $4.4 million in three weeks to do it.
Murder of 13-year-old budding preacher ‘never supposed to happen,’ suspect says
Matthiew Stavkovy, a beloved 13-year-old boy who was fatally shot last month during a botched robbery in Kent, Washington, wasn’t supposed to be killed, according to one of four suspects police have arrested and charged with murder.
Founding elder exits Gateway Church as attendance falls in wake of Robert Morris scandal
Gateway Church in Southlake, Texas, has announced the exit of founding elder Steve Dulin as an independent investigation of child sex abuse allegations made by Cindy Clemishire against founder Robert Morris remains underway.
Texas pastor resigns over ‘inappropriate and hurtful’ actions
Lead pastor of Cross Timbers Church in Argyle, Texas, Josiah Anthony, has resigned over “inappropriate and hurtful” actions meted out to current and former staff at the church due to a prolonged struggle with his “emotional and mental health,” elders have announced.
13-year-old budding preacher who lived for the ‘Glory of God’ killed for camera
Matthiew Stavkovy, a 13-year-old boy well-known at his local church in Kent, Washington, as a budding preacher, singer and musician, was mourned by his family and community Sunday, approximately two weeks after he was fatally shot in the back during the robbery of a camera.
Televangelist Benny Hinn’s wife files for divorce, again
Now living in separate homes more than 60 miles apart, Suzanne Hinn, the wife of controversial prosperity preacher and televangelist Benny Hinn, filed for divorce from her estranged husband last Friday, court records show.
Tom Lane, ex-Gateway Church executive pastor, says he didn’t know Cindy Clemishire was abused at 12
Tom Lane, a former executive pastor of Gateway Church in Southlake, Texas, who first responded to allegations from Cindy Clemishire, 54, that she was sexually abused by the megachurch’s founder, Robert Morris, says he wasn't aware that the abuse began when she was 12.
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