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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Pastor John Gray hails benefits of therapy but most pastors don’t seek professional mental help
For embattled megachurch pastor John Gray and his wife, Aventer, it was God and therapy that helped save their marriage after a series of inappropriate relationships. But unlike Gray, Barna Group data shows that most never seek professional help.
DOJ sues Idaho town for religious discrimination against Evangelical church
The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit accusing the City of Troy in Idaho of religious discrimination after town officials denied an application from the nearby Moscow-based Christ Church for a conditional use permit that would allow the church to hold services in the city of just under 950 people.
Vineyard USA threatens Duluth Vineyard with dissociation amid dispute over handling of sexual abuse
The American arm of the Association of Vineyard Churches, Vineyard USA, has threatened leaders of the Vineyard Church in Duluth, Minnesota, with dissociation if they fail to resolve a dispute over the handling of sexual abuse in the organization by August.
Prominent 82-year-old Pastor Douglas Jones to face judge for sex crime
Douglas P. Jones, the longtime senior pastor of Welcome Missionary Baptist Church in Pontiac, Michigan, is expected to be arraigned before a Circuit Court Judge next Thursday, May 29, on a fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct charge.
Summit Church’s religious discrimination lawsuit assigned to magistrate court
Pre-trial proceedings for a religious discrimination lawsuit filed by former Southern Baptist Convention President J.D. Greear's The Summit Church in North Carolina against the Chatham County Board of Commissioners have been moved to magistrate court.
Britain considers mandatory chemical castration for pedophiles, but not rapists
In a bid to lower overcrowding in prisons, the British government is considering whether to make chemical castration mandatory for certain sex offenders serving time in their correctional system.
Judge tells ex-megachurch volunteer to ‘repent’ for sexually abusing teenager
Sixth Judicial Circuit Court Judge LaTonya Honorable urged former middle school teacher and Immanuel Baptist Church praise team member Reagan Danielle Gray to “repent” Monday after she pleaded no-contest to second-degree sexual assault of a minor member of the Southern Baptist megachurch.
Megachurch backs male students being investigated for complaining about female in locker room
A local megachurch is rallying behind three male students at Stone Bridge High School in Ashburn, Virginia, who are being investigated for sexual harassment after complaining about a female student who identifies as a boy in the boys' locker room.
Pastor Jamal Bryant plans Memorial Day weekend Target protest to remember George Floyd
In what he calls an expression of “righteous indignation,” Pastor Jamal Bryant announced on Sunday that he and his parishioners will protest for nearly 10 minutes outside a Target store in Conyers, Georgia, to remember George Floyd, who died in police custody in May 2020.
Kentucky gov. remembers 19 killed in tornado as children of God, asks for prayers
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear remembered 19 people killed by a tornado that ripped through the state Friday as children of God and asked for prayers for others injured or displaced by the event.
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