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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    Controversial Televangelist Peter Popoff Hawks 'Miracle Water'

    Peter Popoff, the controversial televangelist who amassed millions from a "prophetic anointing" that was later revealed to have come, at least in part, from information fed to him over a radio by his wife, Elizabeth, is now hawking baggies of "miracle spring water" that promises to rid its drinkers from debt.

  • Doctor Who 'Cured' Baby of HIV: 'Faith Affects Everything I Do'

    Doctor Who 'Cured' Baby of HIV: 'Faith Affects Everything I Do'

    If you ever wondered how much of an impact the Christian faith of Dr. Hannah Gay, the University of Mississippi Medical Center pediatrician whose treatment "functionally cured" a baby girl born with an HIV infection, has had on her work, you don't have to anymore. Her faith is "everything," she says.

  • Tubby 50-Year-Old Soccer Ace Is Newest Internet Star

    Andrew Cassidy, a tubby 50-year-old Welshman recently dubbed the "Welsh Maradona," has become the latest Internet sensation for his dazzling display of freestyle soccer skills in a parking lot that was captured in a video posted on YouTube a week ago.

  • Republican Lawmakers in North Carolina Push to Establish State Religion

    In a bid to nullify any federal ban on Christian prayer by public bodies in North Carolina, Republican legislators in that state filed a bill last month that would not only do that but also allow them to declare an official religion in the state too.

  • Obama Gives Brick Show on White House Ball Court at Easter Egg Roll

    Obama Gives Brick Show on White House Ball Court at Easter Egg Roll

    Call it an epic fail or a brickfest, but President Barack Obama could perhaps have built himself a little house with the number of bricks he threw down on the White House basketball court during the Easter Egg Roll festivities on Monday.

  • Transgender Boy Cries Foul After Double Rejection by Women's College

    Transgender Boy Cries Foul After Double Rejection by Women's College

    A transgender teen who was born male but insists he is a female, cried foul last week when all-female Smith College twice rejected his application for admission to the institution because of his male genitalia.

  • John Piper Cries Tears of Thanks After Final Day as Pastor

    John Piper Cries Tears of Thanks After Final Day as Pastor

    On Monday morning, for the first time in 33 years, Piper woke up without the title of pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, Minn., and he cried tears of thanks and joy.

  • How to Keep Your Church Out of Court and Manage Conflicts

    How to Keep Your Church Out of Court and Manage Conflicts

    With more than 75 percent of American churches experiencing some kind of conflict and 25 percent reporting disputes as "serious," according to Faith Communities, conflict experts believe planning for its inevitability can help churches arrive at more peaceful resolutions and stay out of damaging court battles.

  • Fla. Planned Parenthood Defends Right to Kill Babies That Survive Abortions

    In a shocking statement contravening the federal Born Alive Infants Protection Act of 2002, a Planned Parenthood lobbyist told Florida legislators last week that the fate of babies who survive botched abortions should be left to doctors and family.

  • Under Fire, Ben Carson Defends Marriage, Refines Comments on Gay Relationships

    Rising conservative star, neurosurgeon Dr. Benjamin Carson refined comments he made regarding the definition of marriage and gay relationships on Friday after coming under fire from liberal groups who took offense to a statement that he made on the issue earlier this week.

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