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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Christian Comedian John Crist Says Celebrity Pastors Are His Friends: I'm Not About Tearing People Down
Popular Christian comedian John Crist whose roast of several high-profile preachers in a video called "Celebrity Pastor Fantasy Draft" has racked nearly five million views on Facebook alone, recently clarified that the roast was not intended to demean the preachers because they are his friends.
NewSpring Named 'Jesus Christ' as Senior Pastor After Perry Noble Left, Church Was $47M in Debt
Two years after NewSpring Church in South Carolina lost their founding and senior pastor Perry Noble to alcohol abuse and other "unfortunate choices and decisions," Jesus Christ is now listed as senior pastor over a new team-led church model in amended bylaws.
Christian Wrestling Gets National Stage on Now Network
A group of professional Christian athletes who've been using wrestling as a ministry tool for the last 18 years, are set to get a bigger audience next month when their work debuts on the NOW Television Network, the No. 1 urban Christian channel.
Beloved Megachurch Volunteer Dies Shielding Grandson After Jeep Tumbles Down Mountain
Jerry Greenough, a 63-year-old Oklahoma man and frequent volunteer at the multi-campus Victory Church, is being hailed a hero by his family after he died trying to shield his grandson from injury as his Jeep rolled 150 feet down the side of a mountain in New Mexico.
Church Urges Compassion After Autistic Member Confesses to Murder
When William Winters Leverett, 27, confessed a week ago to leaders at the Open Gate Ministries of New England that he was the one who fatally stabbed insurance company executive Melissa Millan four years ago they were stunned.
Statement Against Social Justice Marginalizes People Who Talk About Race and Justice, Tim Keller Says
A controversial statement signed by more than 9,000 evangelicals and Christian organizations deploring social justice as a dangerous concept to the Gospel, belittles Christians who talk about race and justice says Tim Keller, founding pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City.
Christians Shouldn't Attend Weddings of Christians Who Fornicate and Believe It's OK: John Piper
Founder of desiringGod.org and chancellor of Bethlehem College & Seminary in Minnesota, John Piper, has suggested that Christian should not support the weddings of Christian couples who fornicate and believe it is permissible even though the Bible calls fornication sin.
Evangelist Christine Caine Sued by Colo. Author for Copying Book
Carey Scott, a Colorado author and life coach, has accused international evangelist Christine Caine and her publishers of copying substantial portions of a book she published in 2015 to include in two bestselling books Caine published later.
Detained American Pastor Andrew Brunson's Fate Is in Hands of Court, Turkey's President Says
American Pastor Andrew Brunson, who is under house arrest in Turkey will have to wait until the court makes a decision on Oct. 12 to find out if he will be freed the country's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday.
Ex-Potter's House Volunteer Files Lawsuit Against TD Jakes Ministries Over 'Assault' in Church
Audrey Stevenson, a former Potter's House Fort Worth church volunteer who was caught on video being handcuffed, assaulted and physically removed from the church during a dispute with an elder in March, has filed a lawsuit against T.D. Jakes Ministries and several other parties over the incident.
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