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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World renowned pastor and motivational speaker Myles Munroe has a new messages for leaders in 2014 and it's a powerful one about character.
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After enduring months of withering criticism for their 2011 manual on how to get "spontaneous" baptisms, Elevation Church, which has advertised its baptism of thousands of people as a spontaneous miracle, has admitted that the baptisms are "not so spontaneous."
'Anti-Gay' Heterosexuals Die Earlier, Says Study; and Why Experts Think This Is So Might Surprise You
"Anti-gay" heterosexuals are more likely to die earlier than those who aren't, according to results of a recent study published in the February issue of the American Journal of Public Health.
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In an astounding demonstration of faith last Saturday night, Cody Coots, 21, son of the-late "Snake Salvation" pastor Jamie Coots, embraced the deadly rattlesnake that killed his father a week ago then played with fire in a rapturous church service.
Gay Heart Attack Patient Curses Hospital Priest for Refusing Him Last Rites and Communion; Priest Offered to Pray for Him
A 63-year-old heart attack patient and devout Catholic reportedly cursed at a Roman Catholic priest working as a chaplain at the Washington Hospital Center in Washington, D.C. because he refused to give him last rites and communion after he told him he was gay.
Brave Mom Surprises Home Invaders With Bullets to Protect Children (Video)
A Detroit mother of two used an assault rifle to defend her family against three armed home invaders Monday night when she sent them running for their lives in a hail of bullets and it was all caught on surveillance video.
Michele Bachmann Under Fire For Saying America is Not Ready For Female President, Obama Got Elected Because of White Guilt
Conservative Minnesota congresswoman and former U.S. Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann has drawn the ire of the Internet for declaring that America is not ready for a woman president and Barack Obama only became president because of white guilt.
Woman Says She Stabbed Her 61-Y-O Mother Because She Was Trying to Kill Her With Satanic Curses
A Knoxville, Tenn., woman described as "emotionally unstable" by her neighbor reportedly attempted to murder her 61-year-old mother Wednesday, because she is a powerful satanist who was trying to kill her and her young daughter through curses.
Elevation Church 'Emotionally Manipulating' Thousands Into 'Spontaneous' Baptisms, Say Critics
A baptism manual produced by Pastor Steven Furtick's popular Elevation Church in North Carolina, which teaches people how to produce "spontaneous" baptisms among the repentant, is being criticized as "emotional manipulation."
Pizza Hut 'Embarrassed' After Health Officials Shut Down Store Where Manager Was Caught Peeing in Sink (Video)
Pizza Hut officials said Wednesday that they were "embarrassed" after Health Officials shut down one of their stores in Kermit, W.Va., because a district manager was caught on video peeing in the same sink in which the store utensils are washed.
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