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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Koinonia Christian Church Pastor Ronnie Goines acquitted of sexual assault charge
Less than a month after he was hit with a civil lawsuit by a former member and dentist alleging that he sexually assaulted her twice, founding pastor of Koinonia Christian Church in Arlington, Texas, Ronnie Goines was acquitted of those charges Wednesday after a Tarrant County grand jury decided there was insufficient evidence to support the claim.
Cindy Clemishire tells Texas House how Robert Morris shattered her innocence in 1982
Cindy Clemishire told Texas lawmakers this week how Gateway Church founder Robert Morris shattered her innocence in 1982 and it took her two decades to realize she was abused and not the one at fault.
Duluth Vineyard's interim Pastor John Kliewer steps aside after questions about leadership
Just over a month after publicly criticizing the handling of sexual abuse claims by his church's parent organization, John Kliewer, interim lead pastor of the Vineyard Church in Duluth, Minnesota, has voluntarily "stepped back" from the role after Vineyard USA accused him of leadership abuse.
Cindy Clemishire responds to Robert Morris’ 'not guilty' plea as some think it shows unrepentance
Gateway Church's embattled founder, Robert Morris, has formally pleaded "not guilty" to five counts of lewd or indecent acts with a child stemming from allegations made by 54-year-old Cindy Clemishire last June. Although some survivor advocates suggest the plea reflects a level of unrepentance, Clemishire sees something else.
NC mom thanks God for sparing daughter after 2 sons killed in storm
A grieving North Carolina mother asked for prayers and thanked God for sparing her daughter after a tree crashed into her home and killed her two sons on Sunday.
Gateway Church founder Robert Morris surrenders, expects to plead not guilty
Robert Morris, founder of Gateway Church in Southlake, Texas, formally surrendered to the Osage County Sheriff's Office in Oklahoma Monday morning and is expected to enter a not-guilty plea in court days after being indicted on five counts of lewd or indecent acts with a child by a multi-county grand jury in that state last Wednesday.
Futures Church Youth Pastor Daniel Menelaou arrested for possession of child porn
Officials at Futures Church headquartered in Australia were left in shock last Wednesday after Daniel Menelaou, a youth pastor with the Alpharetta, Georgia, campus of the global megachurch, was arrested and charged with possession of child pornography.
Gateway Church offers prayers to members after indictment of Robert Morris for child sex crimes
Gateway Church in Southlake, Texas, offered prayers to congregants and reminded them on Sunday that the church had drawn a “bright line” of separation from founder Robert Morris following his indicted last Wednesday on five counts of lewd or indecent acts with a child by a multi-county grand jury in Oklahoma.
Oklahoma AG used frontier-era law to charge Robert Morris, supports ending statute of limitations for rape
Oklahoma’s “tough on crime” Attorney General Gentner Drummond, who launched his 2026 bid to become the state’s governor just two months ago, used a frontier-era law most frequently used to prosecute cold cases to charge megachurch pastor, Robert Morris, with five counts of lewd or indecent acts with a child stemming from allegations made by Cindy Clemishire last June.
Woman who fatally shot Pastor Ricky Floyd outside bar reportedly on suicide watch
Samantha Marion, the woman who has been charged with the fatal shooting of prominent Memphis, Tennessee, Pastor Ricky Floyd on Wednesday morning, is now reportedly on suicide watch in jail as her mother insists she was defending herself after she was attacked.
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