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.
Saddleback Church Lead Pastor Andy Wood apologized to his congregants and staff for causing "confusion," weeks after he shut down the comments section of his Instagram post about the inauguration of President Donald Trump on Jan. 20, which made some of his followers ask if he had gone "MAGA."
International House of Prayer Kansas City’s disgraced founder Mike Bickle used predatory tactics and spiritual manipulation to sexually abuse at least 17 females, including minors, according to the findings of an independent investigative report.
Lucy Pat Curl, the 85-year-old wife of First Baptist Church Orlando’s longtime pastoral care minister Bill Curl, who was hospitalized after she was brutally beaten during a home invasion last Friday, has died.
Some 13 years after he was sentenced to death for the grisly murder of Texas Rev. Clint Dobson inside his church in 2011, Steven Nelson maintains his innocence and said the late pastor's church rejected his efforts to contact Dobson's family days before he is scheduled to die by lethal injection Wednesday.
Congregants at the 14,000-member First Baptist Church Orlando are praying for a miracle for Lucy Pat Curl, the 85-year-old wife of their longtime pastoral care minister Bill Curl, after she was brutally attacked inside her home while her husband was at work.
After years of online allegations that Christian minister Shawn Bolz was fabricating prophecies and words of knowledge in his ministry, leaders at Bethel Church in Redding, California, where he was frequently platformed, revealed that they confronted him about the allegations more than five years ago and distanced themselves from him when he didn't provide a satisfactory response.
Calling Target’s decision to scale back its diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives “a spit in the face of black people,” megachurch Pastor Jamal Bryant is pushing a 40-day boycott of the retail giant starting at the beginning of Lent on March 5.
Gateway Church in Southlake, Texas, has added four new interim elders to its leadership team months after purging multiple elders from their ranks who were aware of a past child sex abuse claim against the church’s former leader and founder, Robert Morris, but did not make it known to the congregation.
An outpouring of grief and support has been spreading across the country for the 67 people killed in Wednesday’s midair collision of American Airlines Flight 5342 and a U.S. Army Black Hawk in Washington D.C., as their identities continued to be revealed by friends and family Friday.
President Donald Trump has directed the U.S. Department of Education and several other federal agencies to look for ways to expand school choice for families to improve student performance as the nation's latest report card shows American students falling behind in reading and stagnating in math,
