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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Worship leader Scott Box shares how faith is helping him beat bipolar disorder in book ‘Heroic Disgrace’
In the foreword to worship leader Scott Box’s new book, "Heroic Disgrace," his cousin, Brian “Head” Welch, who co-founded the Grammy Award-winning band Korn, calls it “one of the best stories I’ve read in a long time.”
Pastor JD Hall arrested for DUI hours after threatening to disrupt SBC annual meeting
Fellowship Baptist Church in Sidney, Montana, declared Monday that it has rejected an offer from Pastor Jordan Daniel “J.D.” Hall to resign following a recent arrest on weapons and DUI charges which they attributed to a vitamin D deficiency.
Having 3 or more children negatively impacts late-life cognition: study
While recent research has warned of the potential drawbacks of America's declining fertility rate, a new study has found that having three or more children negatively affects late-life cognition.
Family, church grieve missionary killed in Buffalo race massacre as community remembers victims
The family and church community of 86-year-old missionary Ruth Whitfield killed in Saturday's racially-motivated massacre in Buffalo, New York, is grieving her as a strong woman of faith who was the glue of her close Christian family.
Pastor Tony Spell plans to file suit over arrests after court win
Two days after the Supreme Court of Louisiana found that Gov. John Bel Edwards' stay-at-home order during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic was unconstitutional and violated the religious freedom of Pastor Tony Spell of Life Tabernacle announced that he would be filing a lawsuit for his wrongful arrests.
Buffalo pastor says white peers who won’t stand against white supremacy can ‘go to Hell’
A prominent black pastor in Buffalo, New York, said his white peers who refuse to stand against white supremacy in their pulpits could “go to hell” with the alleged mass murderer accused of executing 10 mostly black people in the name of white supremacy as they shopped at Tops Friendly Markets on Saturday.
After girl, 3, dies in botched exorcism at Pentecostal church, ritual takes spotlight
Officials at a small Pentecostal church in San Jose, California, confirmed that a 3-year-old girl died within their walls last September after undergoing a botched exorcism, bringing a renewed spotlight on the practice of expelling demons from individuals believed to be possessed.
Evangelical Lutheran Church short ‘at least 600’ pastors as many step away from ministry amid pandemic
Since their former Pastor Darren Paulson resigned last September as the COVID-19 pandemic raged into its second year, congregants of Atonement Lutheran Church in Billing Heights, Montana, have been waiting patiently for their local synod to replace him.
Man dressed in suit and tie killed by police after shooting up Washington church
A nattily dressed man who fired shots into the Living Hope Community Church in downtown Wenatchee in Washington on Saturday morning then wounded an officer was shot dead by police on the church’s “doorstep” the church’s pastor said.
Leader of Nebraska church to donate life-saving kidney to associate pastor
A senior associate pastor at the Bellevue Christian Center in Nebraska, who had been waiting for months to find a donor on the University of Nebraska Medical Center’s kidney transplant list, cried tears of joy before his congregation as he revealed their lead pastor was found to be a perfect match.
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