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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SBC theologian angers some with call for Matthew 18 discipline for churches that promote ‘wokeness’
A Southern Baptist theologian in Kansas City, Missouri, is under fire from some pastors and Christian academics for recommending Matthew 18 discipline for those who “teach and promote wokeness.”
Pastor Patrick Garcia resigns from The Hills Church after confessing affair
Two years after his controversial firing from the multi-campus Crossroads Christian Church in Indiana, Patrick Garcia has resigned as the lead pastor of The Hills Church, created by former Crossroads leaders and members, after confessing to a monthslong affair with another woman.
COVID-19-related mental health disorders will cause increased suicides, drug overdoses: researchers warn
A second wave of devastation stemming from the coronavirus pandemic including soaring suicides and drug overdoses is imminent with the declining mental health of communities medical researchers warn and it is expected to disproportionately impact the poor, older adults, blacks and Hispanics.
Pandemic hits Seventh-day Adventist Church with estimated $26M decline in tithes, offerings
The Seventh-day Adventist Church is now in “survival” mode financially as it estimates a $26 million decline in tithe and mission offerings from their more than 21 million members around the world amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Ron Carpenter announces new Greenville Redemption campus amid lawsuit with John Gray
Redemption Church Pastor Ron Carpenter has announced that he is returning to Greenville, South Carolina, with a new campus in 2021 to provide a spiritual home for former congregants who are now in distress after a botched handover of his longtime church in that city to fellow megachurch leader John Gray.
Greg Laurie says COVID-19 symptoms ‘were never that bad,’ will return to pulpit Sunday
Crediting the prayers of his supporters with his quick recovery from COVID-19 symptoms that “were never that bad,” Harvest Christian Fellowship Senior Pastor Greg Laurie said he expects to return to his pulpit on Sunday.
Bank drops foreclosure suit against James MacDonald months after his settlement with megachurch
Controversial founder of Harvest Bible Chapel in greater Chicago, James MacDonald, is no longer in danger of losing his sprawling $1.6 million custom-built home in Elgin, Illinois, after the bank holding his mortgage withdrew a foreclosure lawsuit against him Wednesday.
Amid looming global hunger crisis, UN’s World Food Program wins Nobel Peace Prize
Amid a looming global hunger crisis accelerated by the coronavirus pandemic, the United Nation’s World Food Program which works to bring aid to millions of food insecure people, has been awarded the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize, the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced Friday.
Jon Steingard suggests pandemic forced him to reveal he is no longer a Christian
Jon Steingard, former frontman for the Canadian Christian rock band Hawk Nelson who revealed in May that he no longer believes in God, suggested that if the pandemic didn’t happen, he may not have shared his unbelief with the world.
Pandemic could result in loss of faith in next generation, Barna researchers say
The coronavirus pandemic could accelerate a loss of faith among the next generation unless churches find ways to better disciple young churchgoers and keep them connected senior researchers at the Barna Group say.
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