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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Sage Steele believes devil tried to silence her with golf ball strike at PGA Championship
Christian sports anchor and former "SportsCenter" host Sage Steele told Liberty University students that she believes the devil tried to use a devastating blow to her mouth from a wayward golf ball that knocked out eight teeth at the PGA Championship in May 2022 weeks after she filed a lawsuit against ESPN for retaliation to silence her.
World Vision warns of grave impact on Haitian children as violence escalates, missionary evacuated
Global Christian humanitarian aid organization World Vision has warned that children in Haiti are facing grave insecurity as escalating violence in the troubled Caribbean nation continues to lead to the death and displacement of thousands.
Gunman shoots pastor twice after telling him ‘God is not going to bless you tonight’
Texas Pastor Thomas Wilson of Meadowbrook Baptist Church is thanking God for sparing his life after a gunman he refused to lend his phone to shot him twice and robbed him moments after telling him “God is not going to bless you tonight.”
Pastor accused of having sex with teenager more than 100 times while he was her legal guardian
An Indiana woman who says she has lost her faith in humanity after she was forced to have sex more than 100 times as a teenager by her pastor as he served as her legal guardian, says despite everything she went through, “I never lost my faith in God.”
Pastor paid hitmen nearly $40K to kill daughter’s boyfriend: police
A California pastor who allegedly paid hitmen nearly $40,000 last October to kill his daughter's boyfriend has been arrested and charged with solicitation for murder, conspiracy to commit murder, attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon.
Majority of Americans say religion is losing influence in public life: Pew
Most American adults say religion is losing influence in public life and many are not happy about it, a new study from the Pew Research Center has found.
Father thanks God for sparing family after deadly tornado rips through Ohio home
An Ohio father whose young children and their mother were on their way home to join him but decided to turn around last Thursday just before a deadly tornado destroyed his home is thanking God for sparing his life and keeping his family safe.
Ron DeSantis pledges help for American missionaries trapped in Haiti
As many American missionaries seek to be evacuated from Haiti after getting trapped there amid political turmoil and escalating violence, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis says he has authorized rescue flights to help missionaries get out of the troubled Caribbean nation.
Marriages surge past 2M nationally for first time since 2019
After falling to a historic low during the COVID-19 pandemic, marriages in the United States saw a significant rebound in 2022 and surged past the 2 million mark for the first time since 2019, new data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows.
Evangelicals divided on how churches, leaders should engage on public policy issues
While there has been a longstanding debate over how involved churches and their leaders should be when it comes to public policy issues, a majority of Evangelicals only agree on two issues they think churches and their leaders should be very involved with — abortion and what is acceptable in public expressions of faith.