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.
Kemtal Glasgow, Gateway Church’s executive pastor who provided leadership and oversight to all of the megachurch’s campuses and gathering locations, has been fired due to a “moral issue,” the Southlake, Texas-based church announced Wednesday.
A father who left his three children, including a newborn and two toddlers, inside his car alone as he attended a funeral at a Baptist church in Charlotte, North Carolina, has been charged with child abuse causing serious injuries and two other misdemeanors after one of the children passed out while he was away.
The Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine in Manhattan has been awarded a $1.5 million grant by New York City to renovate a historic building on the church's 11-acre campus called Synod Hall to create a larger community center to help people in need.
Landon Schott, senior lead pastor of the multi-campus Mercy Culture Church in the Dallas-Fort Worth area of Texas doubled down Tuesday on morning on a controversial declaration he made on Monday that Americans who vote for Democrats aren’t Christian.
Gateway Church in Southlake, Texas, is facing a new lawsuit from a woman who alleges she was groomed and sexually abused at the age of 13 by an older participant in a youth group hosted by the church at King's University beginning in 2016.
Further distancing himself from the Gateway Church brand in what he describes as a call from God, Ethan Fisher, senior pastor of Gateway Church Houston, who is also the son-in-law of embattled Gateway Church founder Robert Morris, announced Sunday that his church has been renamed Newlands Church in the wake of child sex abuse allegations against his father-in-law.
Days after claiming their former lead pastor resigned over “inappropriate and hurtful” behavior toward current and former staff that was not sexual, elders of Cross Timbers Church in Argyle, Texas, said they discovered that Josiah Anthony engaged in behavior that was sexual in nature and are bracing for more allegations to come.
Debra Mae Carter, the mistress of former Texas radio host William Neil "Doc" Gallagher, who wrote the Jesus Christ, Money Master Leader Guide, was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday for her role in a Ponzi scheme that defrauded more than 190 people — many of whom were older adult Christians — of more than $31 million.
After Hurricane Beryl caused $20 million in damage to three of his church’s four campuses, Pastor Keion Henderson, founder, CEO and leader of The Lighthouse Church & Ministries in Houston, Texas, says God told him He damaged the churches so he can rebuild facilities twice as big and his followers will give him approximately $4.4 million in three weeks to do it.
Matthiew Stavkovy, a beloved 13-year-old boy who was fatally shot last month during a botched robbery in Kent, Washington, wasn’t supposed to be killed, according to one of four suspects police have arrested and charged with murder.
