
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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Pastor Who Asked Congregants for $52 'Favor Seeds' to Upgrade Helicopter Blades Defends Aviation Ministry
A Texas megachurch pastor who came under fire last month for asking supporters of his church for $52,000 to upgrade the blades on his helicopter said if you aren't interested in his appeal letter you can simply throw it away. His aviation ministry however will go on.

Homeland Security Chief Janet Napolitano Will Resign to Lead University of California System
U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security and former governor of Arizona Janet Napolitano is being named as the next president of the University of California system and will resign from her government post, according to media reports.

Emotions Run High After MSNBC Mistakenly Shows Photo of Trayvon Martin's Dead Body
MSNBC recently triggered a new wave of emotions and debate on the proceedings of the George Zimmerman trial when the station mistakenly broadcast a photo of Trayvon Martin's dead body that is creating waves across the Internet.

Demand for Ray Comfort's 'Evolution vs. God' Film Crashes Website
Christian evangelist and author Ray Comfort says a deluge of downloads of his new movie "Evolution vs. God," which he released on Tuesday, caused his website to crash due to the heavy demand.

Chilean President Praises 11-Year-Old Rape Victim for Not Aborting Pregnancy
Chile's conservative president, Sebastian Pinera, stirred angry emotions in that country on Tuesday for praising an 11-year-old for her "depth and maturity" in deciding not to abort a pregnancy resulting from repeated rapings by her mother's lover.
Justin Bieber Apologizes to Former President Bill Clinton After Cursing Him
Pop singer Justin Bieber, who was recently caught on tape urinating in a mop bucket then screaming "F*** Bill Clinton" while spraying a photo of the former president with cleaning liquid after a wild night out, has apologized to Clinton for his behavior.

Neurosurgeon Ben Carson Retires From Surgery; Becomes Columnist for Washington Times
'Gifted Hands' author and renowned neurosurgeon Dr. Benjamin Carson who shot to conservative stardom with his campaign against political correctness earlier this year has retired as head of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Md., and joined The Washington Times as a weekly columnist.

Have Sex Scandals Lost Their Power? Eliot Spitzer Wants to Get Back to Business and Others Agree
While New York City tabloids are having a field day with former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer's five-year-old sex scandal as he seeks the office of the comptroller, the "Sheriff of Wall Street" says he has served his time and just wants to get back to business. And others agree.

Christian Rapper Thi'sl Births Music Ministry From the Womb of an American Inner City
Christian rapper Thi'sl faced some dark days living in the inner city or the "belly of the beast," as some urban dwellers like to call it. But Since God called him from the gritty streets of St. Louis, Mo., several years ago, he has been blazing a trail of inspiration through a language its residents already know – hardcore rap.

'Dead' Woman Wakes Up as Doctors Prepared to Harvest Her Organs
A Central New York hospital was recently fined $22,000 by the state's Health Department partly because a woman who was pronounced dead woke up just in time to avoid the harvesting of her organs by the hospital's doctors for transplant.



















