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.
The Licking County Sheriff's Office in Ohio is urging anyone with information concerning allegations of sexual abuse against Gary Thomas "Tom" Keesee, son of Gary and Drenda Keesee, founders of Faith Life Church, to contact them.
While many churches use small groups to build deeper relationships and community among members, this approach to discipleship isn’t a good fit for younger generations who are more likely to be wrestling with social insecurities and anxieties and turn most often to their mothers for spiritual direction, according to Christian research organization Barna.
A former teacher at the Elim Gaithersburg church in Derwood, Maryland is now facing up to 55 years in prison after pleading guilty to sexually molesting four girls at the church. Two of the victims, according to charging documents, were abused in a classroom as other students prayed.
Former Crossroads Christian Church children's pastor, Matthew Lee Richards, who was arrested and charged with attempting to murder his wife and children and burn down their foreclosed home in Kansas because he didn’t want them to discover they were being evicted has pleaded guilty to two counts of attempted murder.
An Alabama pastor who was accused of trafficking drugs at the Fountain Correctional Facility in Atmore, where he also worked as a counselor, pledged to continue serving God and his community after the charges against him were dismissed when prosecutors failed to present any evidence in court Monday.
Gary Thomas “Tom” Keesee, a son of Gary and Drenda Keesee, founders and senior pastors of Faith Life Church, a family-run multi-campus megachurch in Ohio, is now facing mounting allegations of sexual abuse, including one from his sister, Kirsten McKinney.
New Hope Community Church in Palatine, Illinois, has been branded as hateful by some residents in the neighborhood for promoting a message on their electronic sign that says, “Heaven has strict immigration laws, Hell has open borders.”
Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts had high praise for God and his teammates Sunday following a 40-22 win over back-to-back defending champions Kansas City Chiefs to become the Super Bowl LIX champions.
Although religious affiliation and church attendance are currently on the decline, more than half of American teenagers say they are “very motivated” to know more about Jesus.
For the first time in the last decade, most Democrats and Republicans agree that the cost of living is one of the most important issues facing American families today, according to the results of the recently released American Family Survey.
