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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At Cross19 Conference JD Greear tells young Christians small dreams, visions don’t honor Jesus
In a rousing presentation at the Cross19 Conference in Kentucky on Friday, Southern Baptist Convention President J.D. Greear told young Christians gathered for the event that the Holy Spirit has already equipped them with the power to be witnesses to the world and urged them to dream big because small dreams and visions don’t honor Jesus.
After being on brink of divorce, Pastor John Gray and wife to host relationship conference
Months after megachurch pastor John Gray revealed that he and his wife were on the verge of getting a divorce, the couple announced that they will be hosting a relationship conference, billed “Align," at their South Carolina church next month.
Beth Moore sparks fiery debate after saying spending time reading Bible doesn’t equal spending time with God
Popular Bible teacher and author Beth Moore has sparked a fiery debate online about whether spending time reading the Bible is the same thing as spending time with God.
Former The Life Church members push for clergy mandatory reporting law after youth pastor's conviction
Three former members of The Life Church in Virginia are now pushing for a law in that state to designate clergy as mandatory reporters of child sex abuse.
Bullet narrowly misses pastor during watch night service; congregants erupt in worship
Congregants at the Ramp Church of Texas in Fort Worth erupted in praise shortly after learning their founder and pastor, Evan D. Risher narrowly escaped being shot by a stray bullet while ministering from the pulpit on New Year’s Eve.
6-y-o boy who told congregation ‘I’m tired of this church’ goes viral
A 6-year-old boy from Oakland, California, who told a congregation “I’m tired of this church” during a Christmas Day speech in a now viral video clip, got a spanking for his defiance from his father and a rebuke from the pastor.
At churches across America, Christmas services in high demand
At the non-denominational, multi-campus Faith Church in Missouri, Christmas Eve will be the culmination of a long weekend of creative celebration focused on family, Christ and saving souls.
Alabama police department says spike in juvenile crime due to Satanism
The Opp Police Department in a rural Alabama has come under fire from an atheist group for publicly blaming the town’s growing juvenile crime rate on residents embracing Satan and turning away from God.
Priest who said he urinated in communion wine, was attracted to satanism gets 25 years for child porn
The Rev. W. Thomas Faucher, a retired Idaho priest, was sentenced Thursday to 25 years in prison without parole for what investigators said was the most disturbing child pornography case they had ever seen.
Christian comedian Rickey Smiley released from hospital after declaring ‘Jesus is my doctor’
After a three day stint in the hospital, Christian comedian Rickey Smiley revealed Thursday morning that he has been discharged and is at home resting.
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