Leonardo Blair
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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Finding missing pastor’s wife, Jilian Kelley, Veronica Butler alive now ‘more challenging': investigator
The chances of finding Jilian Kelley, a 39-year-old pastor's wife, and Veronica Butler, 27, alive after they disappeared more than a week ago with signs of “foul play” is growing “more challenging” as time wears on.
Pastor’s missing 13-year-old son, Gunner Blair, found safe after frantic search
The Conway Police Department in South Carolina confirmed Thursday that Gunner Blair, the 13-year-old son of Langston Baptist Church Pastor Brandon Blair, who disappeared for hours in the woods behind the church on Wednesday, has been found after a desperate search and is safe.
Idaho man planned suicide attack on churches to support ISIS: FBI
An 18-year-old Idaho man who pledged his support to the Islamic State and planned a suicide attack on churches in Coeur d'Alene has been charged with attempting to provide material support or resources to a designated foreign terrorist organization after his plan was thwarted by federal authorities Saturday.
Master portrait artist Zimou Tan revives the Gospel in art but won’t depict the face of Jesus
About a month before his solo exhibition billed “The Lord was there” opened at the Arkell Museum in Canajoharie on March 1, master portrait artist Zimou Tan had a completely different vision of what the show would look like. But God, he said, interrupted everything.
Son fatally stabs mother while listening to Jay-Z, Kanye West’s ‘No Church in the Wild’
A 21-year-old pre-med student at the University of Florida with no history of mental illness confessed to fatally stabbing his mother more than 70 times in Frostproof on Saturday while listening to Kanye West and Jay-Z's song “No Church in the Wild,” authorities said.
Pastor, ex-officer who fled after sexual battery charge is back in custody thanks to Texas church
Days after he fled prosecution in Florida for allegedly sexually assaulting an alcohol-impaired teenager, former police officer and pastor, Monte Lavelle Chitty, is now back in custody thanks to a quick-thinking Texas church.
Jim Staley claims solar eclipse will release sixth seal of Revelation, is God’s warning to America
Reformed Passion for Truth ministry leader Pastor Jim Staley, who pleaded guilty to defrauding elderly victims of millions of dollars in an investment scam in 2015, says he believes Monday’s total solar eclipse is a warning from God to America and is connected to the release of the sixth seal of the book of Revelation in the Bible
Viral TikTok videos claim Putin shows Jesus as black in historic icons
Scores of viral videos on the social platform TikTok are claiming that Russian President Vladimir Putin recently opened up a vault revealing historic icons depicting Jesus, the Virgin Mary and his disciples as black. Fact-checkers from news agencies like Reuters and AFP say, however, that the claim is fabricated.
Mother of youth minister shot dead by pastor’s son in love triangle confident justice will be served
Shaylor Wilcots, the mother of late New Generation Church Youth Minister Denzel Branch, who was shot dead by his lead pastor's son Joshua Bell during a dispute near the church on Sunday, is confident justice will be served as she prepares to bury her son on Saturday.
Speculation grows as search for pastor’s wife Jilian Kelley and Veronica Butler continues
Speculation about what happened to 39-year-old pastor's wife, Jilian Kelley, who disappeared in Oklahoma Saturday with 27-year-old Veronica Butler as they headed to pick up Butler's children, continued to grow Wednesday as authorities still search for the missing woman.