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.
Tim Somers, a youth pastor with Steven Furtick's Elevation Church in North Carolina, was fired from his role after he was accused of engaging in inappropriate conduct with former students at Oaks Church in Texas, where he served as an intern and staff member more than 10 years ago.
With big plans to fight poverty, increase access to affordable housing and eliminate food deserts, Solomon Kinloch Jr., leader of the more than 35,000-member Triumph Church in Detroit, Michigan, launched his bid to become the city's mayor Wednesday.
Megachurch Pastor T.D. Jakes has formally denied allegations he sexually assaulted former pastor Duane Youngblood when he was a teenager or his older brother, Pastor Richard Edwin Youngblood, in a legal response to a motion seeking to dismiss his defamation lawsuit against his accusers.
Faith Life Church founders Gary and Drenda Keesee suggested that there is another side to the story regarding recent allegations of sexual abuse against their son Gary Thomas "Tom" Keesee as the Licking County Sheriff's Office in Ohio took on the investigation of the claims that have rocked the multi-campus megachurch in Ohio.
An interfaith group of religious leaders called for “four more years” in office for Mayor Eric Adams as Gov. Kathy Hochul considered using her executive power to remove him from office after being pressed to do so by fellow Democrats.
As they now face multiple civil lawsuits related to sexual abuse, leaders of the Vineyard Church in Duluth, Minnesota, and its parent organization, Vineyard USA, are set to meet next month to discuss ways to increase accountability on a national level for sexual abuse.
The investigation of a shooting at Lakewood Church last year ahead of a Sunday worship service involving a mother who opened fire inside the megachurch while she was with her 7-year-old son before being killed by off-duty officers will be reviewed by a grand jury.
The number of Hillsong Church campuses in the United States has now fallen to just five after leaders in the global Australia-based megachurch announced Sunday that Hillsong San Francisco — led by pastors Brenden and Jacqui Brown — is separating from the Hillsong brand and will be independently run under a new name.
Nearly 50,000 people have signed up for megachurch Pastor Jamal Bryant's 40-day boycott of retail giant Target, set to start at the beginning of Lent on March 5 in response to the company's recent decision to scale back its diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.
A small Wyoming town and two fathers are grappling with grief and anger after a woman struggling with her mental health killed three of her four daughters before shooting herself in the head on Monday.
