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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Marriage offers significant benefits for men and women but eludes many, study finds
In Genesis 2:18, “The Lord God said, ‘It is not good for the man to be alone,'” and gave him Eve as a suitable helper. And God perhaps wedded Adam and Eve because of all the benefits a new study suggests that married men experience over men who are single.
Americans increasingly ditching religious marriages for secular, interfaith relationships: study
Fifty years ago, religious marriage ceremonies were the norm. Most people got married to someone who shared their faith, and just a small fraction of husbands and wives were in relationships where no one practiced a religion. That trend is now on the decline, a new study says.
Pastor Greg Locke defends deliverance ministry after chasing suspected witches from church
Controversial Global Vision Bible Church leader Greg Locke defended the deliverance ministry of his Tennessee congregation Wednesday, calling Christian critics challenging his decision to chase six suspected witches from his congregation "lukewarm" enablers of spiritual wickedness.
Christians who oppose face masks have ‘spirit of antichrist:’ AME elder, Columbia prof. claims
Obery M. Hendricks Jr., an ordained elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Church and an adjunct professor of religion at Columbia University in New York City slammed Christians who opposed masking amid the COVID-19 pandemic as having the “spirit of antichrist.”
America divided on whether greater acceptance of trans-identified individuals is good for society
A newly released Pew Research Center study shows that Americans, in general, are divided on whether greater acceptance of trans-identified people is good for society.
Pastor Greg Locke says devil revealed identity of 6 witches in his church during exorcism
Popular internet preacher and leader of the Global Vision Bible Church in Tennessee, Greg Locke, swore by the hand of God and the name of Jesus during his sermon on Sunday that a demon told him the identity of six witches in his congregation. Then, he asked them to “get out.”
Majority of pastors say they want racially diverse congregations, but few are finding it in reality: study
While a majority of Protestant pastors say churches should be racially diverse, most of their churches continue to be made up of predominantly one racial or ethnic group, according to newly released data from a Lifeway Research study.
As churches embrace technology, many see strategic importance of social media fading in future: study
A majority of American churches now embrace technology as an important tool in achieving their mission and agree that the digital church is here to stay. But less than half of them believe social media will be as “strategically important” as other online tools in the future, according to a new study.
Thousands of baptisms conducted by Phoenix priest deemed invalid by Catholic Church
Thousands of Catholics baptized into the faith by the Rev. Andres Arango, the former priest of St. Gregory Catholic Church in Phoenix, Arizona, will now have to redo their baptisms after Arango was found to have used an incorrect formula to carry out the sacrament.
Venue Church Pastor Tavner Smith apologizes for ‘inappropriate relationship’ in return to pulpit
Pastor Tavner Smith of Venue Church in Chattanooga, Tennessee, confessed Sunday that he was involved in an “inappropriate relationship” and asked for his congregation's forgiveness as he returned to the pulpit after a brief sabbatical.
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