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.
Though churches have reported ongoing declines in worship service attendance, their fiscal health has not suffered as significantly because the faithful who continue to attend have been giving more to cover operating expenses, a new study suggests.
Family, friends and well-wishers across the nation are grieving for the two students and two teachers killed by the bullets of the 14-year-old Apalachee High School shooting suspect who went on a rampage in Winder, Georgia, on Wednesday.
The suspect behind the Apalachee High School shooting in Winder, Georgia, which left four people dead, and nine others injured has been identified as 14-year-old Colt Gray.
Tennessee Pastor Greg Locke of Global Vision Bible Church in Mount Juliet is praising God for protecting his family after a “madman” allegedly unloaded a barrage of bullets into his home with one of his children inside.
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp urged residents of the state to join him in prayer Wednesday for the multiple casualties left in the wake of an active shooter incident at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, as investigators confirmed they have the shooting suspect in custody.
Ed Young, the founding and senior pastor of the multi-site Fellowship Church in Grapevine, Texas, says complaing that megachurches are "just too big" is one of the most "hypocritical statements someone can make."
A 17-second video clip of ESPN's College GameDay personality Pat McAfee dancing at his desk while his apparently unamused co-host Nick Saban looked on during a commercial break of the show’s broadcast from College Station, Texas, on Saturday is now a viral meme inspiring funny comparisons of personalities that have caught the attention of a number of Christian leaders.
MorningStar Ministries Founder Rick Joyner alleged Sunday that the ministry has mounting evidence showing the ministry’s former leader, Chris Reed, lied to them about a physical relationship with a former student, which enaled him to be elevated in leadership when he should have been “disqualified.”
Just over a month after stepping down as leader of Gateway Church in Southlake, Texas, in the wake of his father Robert Morris’ scandalous resignation, James Morris is preparing to pursue his long-held dream of leading his own church.
A lawsuit filed against MorningStar Ministries earlier this month accuses founder Rick Joyner and top officials and staff members of gross negligence for allegedly engaging in the coverup of multiple incidences of sexual abuse against minors in the ministry.
