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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Donald Trump's former pastor says he never saw him in church, advises he read Gospels
As Donald Trump praised the expansion of Bible literacy in schools this week, Pastor David Lewicki, who served as an associate pastor at the president’s family church in New York City for approximately five years, said the president should also apply Bible literacy to his daily life to help him more actively live out his faith.
Va. Democrat defends abortion for women in labor: While 'she's dilating?' 'Yes'
Outrage mounted to a fever-pitch Wednesday as conservatives voiced opposition to a new bill proposed in the Virginia legislature that would allow abortions up to 40 weeks of pregnancy and permit abortions outside of a hospital during the second trimester.
Pastor who fatally shot himself would sometimes stop taking medication, megachurch leader reveals
Jim Howard, a California pastor who fatally shot himself in the head at his home last week after a private struggle with mental illness, would sometimes fail to take medication prescribed for his condition.
Davey Blackburn's Resonate Church shuttered due to lack of successor, membership decline
The interim pastor at Resonate Church in Indiana that was founded by Davey Blackburn admitted they were poor stewards of church finances and revealed that they ultimately decided to dissolve the church because of dwindling membership and an inability to find a successor to continue the ministry.
Hispanic pastors praise Trump for work on border security as president touts growing support
A group of Hispanic pastors praised President Donald Trump for his work on border security and pushing to build his controversial wall at a meeting at the White House Friday, as the New York billionaire touted a recent poll showing his growing support among Latinos.
In debt, Resonate Church to shut down a week after founder Davey Blackburn resigns
A week after Pastor Davey Blackburn of Resonate Church in Indiana announced his resignation to answer God’s newest call on his life, church officials revealed Sunday that the congregation was tens of thousands of dollars in debt and would be shutting down.
After struggle with mental illness, megachurch pastor Jim Howard fatally shoots himself
Jim Howard, lead pastor of the Valencia campus of the more than 6,000 member Real Life Church in California, fatally shot himself after battling mental illness.
Georgia pastor loses 2 teenage sons in crash, says he’s keeping faith in God anyway
A Georgia pastor who lost both of his sons in a car crash on Sunday says he's walking by faith through his pain even though he can’t understand why his family has been hit by such tragedy.
Former Village Church children’s minister charged in assault of minor
Just months after he was quietly removed from his role last June, the Matt Chandler-led, Village Church in Texas, has ...
Conservatives protest NY law allowing abortion up to birth for any reason
A day after the New York state Legislature passed a bill Tuesday that made it legal for abortionists and other health care professionals to perform abortions up to birth for any reason, conservative anti-abortion advocates have ramped up criticism of the measure as liberals defend it.
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