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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Treasury Dep't issues guidance softening parking tax burden on churches, nonprofits
Churches and other nonprofits that provide parking for their employees welcomed new guidance from the Treasury Department Monday that softens the burden of a provision in the new Tax Cuts and Jobs Act requiring them to file federal and state income tax returns on parking benefits.
Church youth leader charged with rape of teen boy
A 35-year-old church youth leader in Tennessee is now in jail on charges of aggravated statutory rape and soliciting sexual exploitation of a minor after a 16-year-old boy told police that they had sex at least 10 times. The youth leader doesn’t recall being intimate with the teenager more than four times, police say.
John Gray says he made ‘faith deposit’ on wife’s $200K Lamborghini as she defends lavish gift
As he continues to draw flak for gifting his wife a $200,000 Lamborghini Urus for their eighth wedding anniversary, Relentless Church Pastor John Gray revealed it was God who made the acquisition possible.
Stephen Curry comes under fire after expressing doubts about moon landings, NASA offers proof
Golden State Warriors' point guard Stephen Curry has come under fire after he expressed doubts this week about whether man landed on the moon. NASA has offered to provide him with proof.
Former Baylor frat president accused of raping virgin to serve no jail time
A former Baylor University fraternity president accused of raping a 19-year-old student was given a plea deal by a Waco district judge Monday, which outraged many who signed on to a petition urging prosecutors to withdraw the deal.
‘You can have church and never minister,’ Bishop Noel Jones says in dig at black church
California megachurch pastor Bishop Noel Jones has taken a dig at the black church for not fulfilling its role in the community.
Pastor John Gray draws flak for gifting wife $200K Lamborghini Urus for anniversary
Two weeks after drawing praise for allowing congregants in need to take cash directly from his offering baskets, Pastor John Gray of Relentless Church in Greenville, South Carolina, is drawing flak for gifting his wife a Lamborghini Urus for their eighth wedding anniversary celebration that left her screaming on Saturday.
Jamal Bryant gets rock star welcome at New Birth, offered full support of county gov't
Megachurch Pastor Jamal Bryant got a rock star’s welcome and an offer of “full support” from the Dekalb County government as he officially took over as the new senior pastor of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Georgia on Sunday.
Bishop Victor Couzens assures he did not use church money for affairs as some congregants stop giving
Pastor Victor S. Couzens of Inspirational Baptist Church in Cincinnati, Ohio, urged his congregation to “move forward” in a recent sermon in which he apologized for having sexual affairs with multiple women and revealed some members had stopped giving to his ministry because they believe he used church funds to support his lifestyle.
After Sunday School teacher is fatally stabbed, Oprah, others thinking twice on helping panhandlers
The family of a Sunday School teacher who was fatally stabbed inside her car in front of her husband and daughter after she offered help to a panhandler she thought was a mother in need in Baltimore, was told “God bless you” during the attack.
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