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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Cornerstone Church Senior Pastor Loses New Wife in Tragic Crash After Just 8 Months of Marriage; She Was a 'True Light,' Says Friend
Miranda Schumann, 26, the wife of popular senior pastor of Cornerstone Church in Buena Vista, Colorado, Charlie Stombaugh, was killed in an accident near Copper Mountain Friday after the SUV she was traveling in flipped and rolled multiple times.
Denzel Washington on Prayer: 'Put Your Shoes Way Under The Bed at Night So You Gotta Get on Your Knees in the Morning'
Academy Award winning actor Denzel Washington believes that a good way to make sure you pray every morning is to place your shoes "way under the bed at night." Doing that he says ensures that you "gotta get on your knees in the morning.
New Boy Scouts President Robert Gates Supports Inclusion of Openly Gay Adults But Vows to Oppose Reopening Issue
If former U.S. Defense Secretary and new president of the Boy Scouts of America Robert Gates had his way, openly gay adults would be serving in the organization.
7 Dead in Calif. Shooting Rampage; Suspect 22-Y-O Elliot Rodger Pledged 'Retribution' for Rejection by Females
Seven people are now dead including the suspected gunman Elliot Rodger, 22, after he went on a bloody 10-minute shooting rampage in the Southern California college town of Isla Vista which also left seven others injured.
Media 'Railed Against Me for Giving Them the Truth About Their Sins,' Says Duck Dynasty's Phil Robertson
Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson, who became a target of gay rights advocates and triggered a national firestorm last fall for calling homosexuality a sin, defended his comments in a recent sermon in which he said people only got mad because he told them the truth.
Death Sentence for Pregnant Christian Woman in Sudan Appealed; US Congress Calls for Her Release
A pregnant Sudanese woman who was sentenced to death for apostasy this month after she refused to renounce her Christian faith got some help from a local lawyer Thursday who filed an appeal of the controversial verdict which has attracted international rebuke.
74-Y-O Man Sentenced to 60 Days in Prison for Killing 13-Y-O Daughter With Slap Over Chores
A 74-year-old Canadian man who pleaded guilty to unintentionally killing his 13-year-old daughter with a slap over her chores in 2010 was sentenced to a 60-day jail term Wednesday.
Doctors Told Woman She Was Too Young to Have Cancer; Now She Finds Out They Were Wrong and She May Have Only 8 Weeks to Live
About 12 years ago when Julia Wolf was 18, she complained to several doctors that a birthmark on her ankle had raised and started to itch. It might be skin cancer, she told them but she was told to apply some moisturizer. Now 30 and a mother, Wolf is dying from cancer and may have just eight weeks to live.
Residents Say Police Beat Washington Man Until He Was Dead as He Cried Out for Help
Neighbors and family of Ron Hillstrom, 44, of University Place, Washington, are now pleading for justice after witnesses who captured the incident on video say local police beat him as he cried out for help until he was dead.
Benham Brothers Testify How God Helped Them to Start Company After They Got Fired; Confident Good Will Come From HGTV Firing
Popular Christian twin brothers and real estate experts, David and Jason Benham, are confident that good will come from HGTV's dropping of their reality show in the same way he used a firing in the past to help them start their successful real estate business.
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