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.
While many of his followers appreciated his rousing sermon on faith Sunday, Michael Todd, the lead pastor of Transformation Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is facing criticism online for the outfit he wore that some say distracted from his message.
After a dramatic weekend that saw 23-year-old quarterback Shedeur Sanders, who was projected in some mock drafts to be a top-five overall pick in the 2025 NFL draft, getting repeatedly overlooked until the Cleveland Browns selected him as the 144th pick in the fifth round on Saturday, his reaction to the test of his patience inspired sermons among pastors on Sunday.
The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office in Arizona is investigating the death of New River Bible Chapel, Pastor William Schonemann, after he was found dead in his home under suspicious circumstances Monday. He was 76.
A group of Christian leaders asked by the board of the North Carolina-based The Line of Fire – Dr. Brown Ministries, Inc, to review the findings of a Firefly investigation, which concluded that the ministry’s founder Michael Brown engaged in sexual misconduct with two women, have rejected the findings.
United States District Judge William S. Stickman IV has denied a motion from former-pastor-turned-registered sex offender Duane Youngblood to dismiss a defamation lawsuit filed against him and 10 other unidentified individuals by Bishop T.D. Jakes, for alleging Jakes sexually assaulted him when he was a teenager some 40 years ago.
Investigators who reviewed allegations of sexual misconduct made by two women against Michael Brown, founder of the Fire School of Ministry and the Concord, North Carolina-based The Line of Fire – Dr. Brown Ministries, Inc., have concluded they are valid.
Bishop T.D. Jakes announced Sunday that he is handing over the leadership of his 80,000-member The Potter's House megachurch in Dallas, Texas, to his daughter Sarah Jakes Roberts and son-in-law, Touré Roberts.
Greater Grace World Outreach Church in Baltimore, Maryland, said they are investigating allegations made by a former member that church officials were aware that he was repeatedly sexually assaulted by a daughter of Youth Pastor John A. Love beginning when he was 14 and she was 16.
President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order Wednesday to establish a comprehensive national framework to prepare American students for the workforce of the future and spur innovation in American Artificial Intelligence.
In a move that appeared to stun the national office Wednesday, Missouri's largest Assemblies of God congregation announced that its board of trustees unanimously decided to end affiliation with the world's largest Pentecostal denomination.
