
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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Lakewood Church shooting to be reviewed by grand jury as status of boy shot in head remains unclear
The investigation of a shooting at Lakewood Church last year ahead of a Sunday worship service involving a mother who opened fire inside the megachurch while she was with her 7-year-old son before being killed by off-duty officers will be reviewed by a grand jury.
Hillsong Church loses another US campus as San Francisco location separates
The number of Hillsong Church campuses in the United States has now fallen to just five after leaders in the global Australia-based megachurch announced Sunday that Hillsong San Francisco — led by pastors Brenden and Jacqui Brown — is separating from the Hillsong brand and will be independently run under a new name.
Nearly 50,000 sign up for Pastor Jamal Bryant’s Target boycott over DEI rollback
Nearly 50,000 people have signed up for megachurch Pastor Jamal Bryant's 40-day boycott of retail giant Target, set to start at the beginning of Lent on March 5 in response to the company's recent decision to scale back its diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.
Mother shoots self, 4 daughters in head; father asks world to pray for lone survivor
A small Wyoming town and two fathers are grappling with grief and anger after a woman struggling with her mental health killed three of her four daughters before shooting herself in the head on Monday.
Police urge those with information on sexual abuse at Faith Life Church to come forward
The Licking County Sheriff's Office in Ohio is urging anyone with information concerning allegations of sexual abuse against Gary Thomas "Tom" Keesee, son of Gary and Drenda Keesee, founders of Faith Life Church, to contact them.
Gen Z struggles with small groups, trusts mothers most with spiritual questions: Barna
While many churches use small groups to build deeper relationships and community among members, this approach to discipleship isn’t a good fit for younger generations who are more likely to be wrestling with social insecurities and anxieties and turn most often to their mothers for spiritual direction, according to Christian research organization Barna.
Church teacher who molested girls in class as students prayed, pleads guilty
A former teacher at the Elim Gaithersburg church in Derwood, Maryland is now facing up to 55 years in prison after pleading guilty to sexually molesting four girls at the church. Two of the victims, according to charging documents, were abused in a classroom as other students prayed.
Fmr. Crossroads Christian Church pastor pleads guilty to attempting to murder family
Former Crossroads Christian Church children's pastor, Matthew Lee Richards, who was arrested and charged with attempting to murder his wife and children and burn down their foreclosed home in Kansas because he didn’t want them to discover they were being evicted has pleaded guilty to two counts of attempted murder.
Charges dropped against pastor, counselor accused of trafficking drugs in prison
An Alabama pastor who was accused of trafficking drugs at the Fountain Correctional Facility in Atmore, where he also worked as a counselor, pledged to continue serving God and his community after the charges against him were dismissed when prosecutors failed to present any evidence in court Monday.
Tom Keesee, son of Faith Life Church founders, accused of sexually abusing sister, others
Gary Thomas “Tom” Keesee, a son of Gary and Drenda Keesee, founders and senior pastors of Faith Life Church, a family-run multi-campus megachurch in Ohio, is now facing mounting allegations of sexual abuse, including one from his sister, Kirsten McKinney.