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.
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.
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Australian MP slams charity watchdog's handling of Hillsong's compliance failures
A member of the Australian Parliament has dismissed the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission as a "toothless tiger" for accepting a remedial plan from Hillsong College after an investigation found it failed to meet several compliance standards.
Former Getwell Church youth pastor charged with having sex with girl, faces 30 years for abuse of minor
Lindsey Whiteside, a former youth minister with Getwell Church in Hernando, Mississippi, is now facing 30 years in prison after she was charged with having sex with an underage girl under her guardianship.
Surgeon General calls for cancer warning on alcoholic drinks
U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy has called for warning labels on alcoholic beverages to include the risk of cancer citing data showing alcohol consumption leading to 20,000 cancer deaths annually and the third leading preventable cause of cancer in the United States.
Vineyard Church facing 9 civil lawsuits after Jackson Gatlin plea deal for abusing minors
The Vineyard Church in Duluth, Minnesota, and its parent organization, Vineyard USA, have been named in nine civil lawsuits alongside Jackson Gatlin, a former young adult and online community pastor at The Vineyard Church who accepted a plea deal in November for criminal sexual conduct with a child.
TD Jakes reveals he almost died in emotional return to pulpit after surgery
In an emotional and triumphant return to the pulpit on New Year’s Eve, Bishop T.D. Jakes, founder of The Potter's House megachurch in Dallas, Texas, revealed to congregants that the “slight health incident” he suffered on stage while preaching Nov. 24 was really a major one that required emergency surgery to keep him alive.
Kirk Franklin apologizes for ‘disrespectful’ attire in Jamaica, says twerking on singer was ‘too much’
Gospel artist Kirk Franklin has publicly apologized after drawing the ire of conservative Christians in Jamaica for gyrating and flexing his biceps while ministering in a tank top and shorts at a popular annual Christian concert on the island last April.
Pastor arrested for slapping daughter, hitting wife he alleges has mental problems
An Ohio pastor who preached that oftentimes husbands are to blame when their wives are cranky and combative was arrested for assaulting his daughter and his wife, who he claimed has a mental health condition.
Hillsong College on probation after Australian regulator raises compliance concerns
Hillsong College, one of several ministries run by the nondenominational Hillsong Church network headquartered in Australia, has 18 months to adequately meet several compliance standards of the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission after an investigation by the national regulatory body.
Televangelist Kenneth Copeland reveals hospitalization, predicts when he will die
Televangelist Kenneth Copeland revealed he was recently hospitalized for several days for a surgical procedure, but he is now doing well and expects to live until he is 120 because of a deal he made with God.
Bishop TD Jakes wants court to make Google help fight disinformation about him on YouTube
Less than a month after suffering a "health incident," which his attorneys blamed in part on the stress of defamatory comments made on social media against him, megachurch pastor T.D. Jakes has asked a California court to force Google to help him deal with misinformation posted about him on YouTube.
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