Leonardo Blair

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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    Roofers Union Backtracks on Obamacare; Now Wants Repeal or Reform

    Despite initially backing President Barack Obama's Patient Protection and Affordable Healthcare Act, also known as Obamacare, which passed in 2010, the United Union of Roofers, Waterproofers and Allied Workers has reportedly become the first among unions that supported the law to call for its repeal.

  • Liberal Christian Allegedly Sent Deadly Ricin to Obama, Judge, Senator

    Liberal Christian Allegedly Sent Deadly Ricin to Obama, Judge, Senator

    Paul Kevin Curtis, the Elvis Presley impersonator arrested by the FBI in connection with the lethal poison ricin sent in letters to President Barack Obama, a U.S. senator and a judge, is also a self-professed liberal Christian.

  • Rapper Shai Linne Refutes Paula White Ministries' Response to 'Fal$e Teacher$'

    Rapper Shai Linne Refutes Paula White Ministries' Response to 'Fal$e Teacher$'

    In a detailed open letter on Wednesday, controversial rapper Shai Linne refuted a response from Brad Knight, manager and son of popular televangelist Paula White, which chided him for tagging his mother as a prosperity preacher in the lyrics of his song "Fal$e Teacher$."

  • Flak for White House Nonprofit as Gun Control Dies in Senate

    Organizing for Action, the nonprofit organization created from President Barack Obama's campaign organization, Organizing for America, has been attracting a lot of flak from pundits for what is largely seen as its failure to help the president forward his agenda on major social issues like gun control and immigration reform.

  • Hobby Lobby Raises Minimum Wage to $14 for Full-Time Employees

    Hobby Lobby Raises Minimum Wage to $14 for Full-Time Employees

    Arts and crafts giant Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. announced on Monday that effective immediately, the minimum wage for its full-time hourly employees at its stores and affiliate Hemisphere was increased to $14. The hourly wage for part-time employees was also increased to $9.50.

  • Senate Bill Not 'Amnesty,' Say Pro-Immigration Reform Evangelicals

    Senate Bill Not 'Amnesty,' Say Pro-Immigration Reform Evangelicals

    A group of evangelical Christian leaders challenged claims on Wednesday that a recent bill filed by a bipartisan group of senators on immigration reform constitutes amnesty for illegal immigrants.

  • No Agreement Yet on House Immigration Reform Bill

    No Agreement Yet on House Immigration Reform Bill

    Members of an eight-member bipartisan group in the U.S. House of Representatives praised the recently unveiled immigration reform proposal of their counterparts in the Senate on Wednesday and said they expected to release a "reasonable, common-sense plan" of their own in a matter weeks.

  • Scandal Scarred Anthony Weiner Now Second in Race for NYC Mayor

    Scandal Scarred Anthony Weiner Now Second in Race for NYC Mayor

    Two years after a sexting scandal forced him to resign from Congress and toppled him from his frontrunner position in the race for New York City's mayoralty, Democrat Anthony Weiner is now the closest rival to the leading candidate in that race, the city's openly lesbian Council Speaker Christine Quinn.

  • Senate Offers Citizenship, Sweeping Overhaul in Immigration Bill Proposal

    Senate Offers Citizenship, Sweeping Overhaul in Immigration Bill Proposal

    In what is viewed as the most sweeping overhaul in immigration law in at least the last 26 years, a bipartisan group of eight senators unveiled a bill on Tuesday that will map a 13-year pathway to citizenship for almost 11 million undocumented immigrants.

  • Sex Shouldn't Be Better Than Church, Says Professor

    Sex Shouldn't Be Better Than Church, Says Professor

    Although it may not be the case for many Christians today, Dale Kuehne, pastor, political science professor and author of Sex and the iWorld told an intrigued audience at the Q Conference in Los Angeles on Monday that sex should not be better than church.

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