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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Presidential candidate RFK Jr. says ‘I was never an atheist’ but pretended to believe in God
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. shot down a suggestion that he was ever an atheist at one point in his life but seemingly admitted he pretended to believe in God until he got to a place where he now considers himself a true believer.
Jimmy Evans says Robert Morris told him of ‘affair with a woman,’ not 12-year-old Cindy Clemishire
Former Gateway Church lead apostolic senior pastor Jimmy Evans, who is now founder and president of XO Marriage, says he was aware that the Texas megachurch’s founder, Robert Morris, had an affair in his early 20s while he was a minister, but he had no idea the “affair” was the sexual abuse of 12-year-old Cindy Clemishire.
RFK Jr. plans to use ‘miracle of technology’ to insert himself into CNN presidential debate
Two days before President Joe Biden and former president Donald Trump clash in a CNN debate Thursday, independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says he'll be using the "miracle of technology" to insert himself in the discussion as he repeats his claim that the campaigns for the presumptive Democratic and Republican presidential nominees colluded with CNN to keep him off the debate stage.
Historic Abyssinian Baptist Church names Rev. Kevin R. Johnson as new senior pastor
Abyssinian Baptist Church, the renowned black Baptist congregation founded in New York City more than 200 years ago, has announced the selection of the Rev. Kevin R. Johnson as its new senior pastor.
Lance Wallnau slams Rick Warren’s tweet on Robert Morris as political dig at Trump
Evangelical thought leader Lance Wallnau, who predicted Donald Trump would become president prior to his election in 2016, has accused Saddleback Church founder Rick Warren of using the child sexual assault allegations against Gateway Church founder Robert Morris to take a political dig at the presumptive GOP presidential nominee.
Tony Evans’ son, Jonathan, suggests his father didn’t disclose sin to family
Though megachurch Pastor Tony Evans of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas, Texas, recently revealed he had fallen short of biblical leadership standards due to an undisclosed sin, his son, Jonathan Evans, said his father didn’t disclose the sin to his family, even though his public statement suggests he had.
Tearful Gateway Church elder who has 6 daughters apologizes to Robert Morris accuser, Cindy Clemishire
Tra Willbanks, a longtime Gateway Church elder and father of seven, including six girls, tearfully apologized to Cindy Clemishire and other victims of sexual abuse Sunday in the wake of claims by the 54-year-old grandmother that Robert Morris, the recently resigned founder of the Texas megachurch, sexually abused her for four-and-a-half years in the 1980s beginning when she was 12.
Daystar Television removes Robert Morris content from network after child sex abuse allegations
Texas-based Daystar Television Network, one of the largest Christian television networks in the world, has removed all programming featuring Gateway Church founder Robert Morris following his resignation amid an allegation that he sexually abused Cindy Clemishire over multiple years in the 1980s beginning when she was 12.
Robert Morris nixed from Trump’s Evangelical advisory board as Texas pols condemn abuse
Though he previously featured prominently in former President Donald Trump’s Evangelical Executive Advisory Board, Gateway Church’s founding pastor, Robert Morris, who recently resigned in the wake of child sex abuse allegations, no longer has a role in it, a spokesperson for Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign has said.
Robert Morris' accuser says Gateway Church knew of his crime, questions planned investigation
Hours after Gateway Church officials in Texas announced the resignation of founder Robert Morris Tuesday and said it did not know all the facts after Cindy Clemishire accused him of sexually abusing her over multiple years in the 1980s beginning when she was 12, the 54-year-old grandmother claims the church is not being truthful and wants Morris' entire time at the megachurch to be scoured for more victims.
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