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.
A youth pastor who volunteered at an undisclosed church in Alabama has been arrested and charged in Plantation, Florida, with one count of living off the earnings of a teenager he allegedly began pimping when she was just 12.
Evangelist Donnie Swaggart, the only son of controversial televangelist Jimmy Swaggart is now coming under fire from black Christians after he delivered a scathing rebuke of the black church and Bishop John Drew Sheard, the presiding bishop and chief apostle of the Church of God in Christ, Inc., for endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris for president.
A beloved Alabama pastor was fatally shot by his own daughter at his home on Sunday while his wife, who was also shot during the attack, is recovering from injuries she is expected to survive.
Tongues-talking movie-mogul Tyler Perry, whose Christian values have been criticized by fans over the years, has come under scrutiny again after he was caught on video raining fake money on a stripper at R&B singer Usher’s Past Present Future Tour in Atlanta, Georgia, on Sunday.
Police in the Philippines say televangelist and Kingdom of Jesus Christ leader Apollo Quiboloy, who has pleaded not guilty to human trafficking and the sexual abuse of children, might have sexually abused some 200 women as he faced some of his accusers in that country’s senate on Wednesday.
Zachary Radcliff, the former worship director and interim youth pastor of Oakwood Church in Saline, Michigan, where his father, Frank Radcliff, serves as lead pastor, is now facing the possibility of spending the rest of his life in prison after he was slapped with multiple charges of sexually abusing minors.
Despite pleading guilty last Wednesday to making a false statement to federal authorities about a sexual abuse investigation, former Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary evangelism professor Matthew Queen has not resigned from his role as pastor at Friendly Avenue Baptist Church in Greensboro, North Carolina, church leaders said.
A former secretary and longtime member of a church in Louisa, Virginia, is now facing up to 280 years in prison after she was convicted Monday of 14 counts of embezzlement from the coffers of the house of worship.
The White House is celebrating what it calls “the largest recorded reduction in overdose deaths” as the number of people dying from drug overdose fell by 12.7% in the 12-month period ending in May.
A majority of practicing Christians, including pastors, admit to viewing pornography and a large share say they are comfortable with the habit, a new study has found.
