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.
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6 pastors, Christian leaders react to American Airlines crash with Army helicopter that left 67 dead
As America grapples with the nation’s deadliest commercial airline crash since 2001, after a midair collision between an American Airlines jet and an Army helicopter left 67 people dead Wednesday, pastors across the country are now sharing prayers and other words of comfort as profiles of the victims slowly emerge online.
Wichita hosts community prayer as officials give up hope on finding survivors in Potomac River crash
Wichita, Kansas, the city from where an American Airlines jet departed Wednesday, with 64 people on board before crashing midair with a U.S. Army helicopter carrying three soldiers near Reagan National Airport, is set to host a community prayer meeting as officials gave up hope of finding survivors Thursday.
Education experts worry as American children fall further behind in reading, stagnate in math
More than half of fourth graders nationwide have not mastered reading at a proficient level for their grade, and the share of students considered proficient is now 2 percentage points lower than two years earlier, new data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress shows.
14 Pentecostal sect members convicted for death of 8-year-old girl denied lifesaving insulin
The parents of an 8-year-old girl, her adult brother and 11 other members of a small, tongues-talking Pentecostal sect in Toowoomba, Australia, were convicted of manslaughter Wednesday for causing her death by withholding lifesaving insulin needed to treat her Type 1 diabetes because of their religious beliefs.
Grant Thomson, Bible Society Australia’s CEO, resigns after organization posts massive deficit
Five years after former Hillsong Global Chief Marketing Officer Global Grant Thomson was named Bible Society Australia's new CEO, he abruptly resigned after the organization posted a nearly $4.5 million (AU$7.2 million) deficit.
Brother of TD Jakes’ accuser claims megachurch pastor tried to sexually assault him too: affidavit
Pastor Richard Edwin Youngblood, the older brother of Duane Youngblood who Bishop T.D. Jakes of The Potter's House has hit with a defamation lawsuit for alleging the megachurch pastor sexually assaulted him when he was a teenager some 40 years ago, has accused Jakes of trying to have sex with him too.
Megachurch Pastor Jon Weece announces he'll be stepping down to become regular member
Declaring that it is the right thing to do, Senior Pastor Jon Weece of Southland Christian Church has announced plans to step down from the helm of one of the state’s largest churches and become a regular member.
Texas megachurch pastor retires after arrest for solicitation of prostitution at massage parlor
The Rev. John F. Fiedler, a former minister at Highland Park United Methodist Church in Dallas, Texas, retired last month following an arrest for solicitation of prostitution at a massage parlor.
Can the data-driven church help America’s loneliness epidemic?
On a flight to New York City one Sunday, Molly Matthews watched the regularly scheduled worship service at her home church in Washington state from her phone. She needed to be at a business conference downtown the next day and thanks to her church’s livestream broadcast, she was able to stay connected with her congregation on her way out of town.
Antioch High School shooter Solomon Henderson wanted to kill ‘at least 10 people,’ diary suggests
A 288-page diary police believe was created by Solomon Henderson, who fatally shot one student and injured another before taking his own life inside his high school cafeteria, suggests he wanted to kill “at least 10 people” in the attack that has left the school community in grief.
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