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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  • Pastor Who Helped Ex-Lesbian, Her Child Escape Gets 27-Month Sentence

    Pastor Who Helped Ex-Lesbian, Her Child Escape Gets 27-Month Sentence

    A Mennonite pastor from Virginia who helped a woman flee the United States with her daughter to prevent the woman's former lesbian partner from getting custody of the child, was sentenced to 21 to 27 months in prison by a federal judge in Vermont last Monday.

  • Pastor Arrests and Prays for Alleged Burglar Until Cops Arrive

    Pastor Arrests and Prays for Alleged Burglar Until Cops Arrive

    In what the man of God now describes as a "miracle," a Suffolk County, N.Y., pastor who was four days into a week-long fast with his church found the strength to arrest an alleged drug-addled burglar who surprised him at his office when he showed up to prepare for an early morning prayer meeting last Thursday.

  • Live Tweeting the Gospel: Churches Tap Into Social Media Market

    When the Rev. Jim Liberatore gave his young congregation carte blanche to use social media during his sermon two weeks ago, about 25 percent of his 700-member church jumped at the offer. But now, even his older congregants want to talk about Jesus on social media.

  • After Fasting 10 Days, Former Pastor Meets Funding Goal to Finish Movie

    After Fasting 10 Days, Former Pastor Meets Funding Goal to Finish Movie

    After only 10 days of fulfilling a vow to fast up to 40 days to raise $12,200 to finish a film God inspired him to make, a former pastor-turned-filmmaker, Eric "Doc" Benson, managed to raise more than enough money to finish his project, and he is thanking God for showing up.

  • Hillsong Church's Zion Album Debuts at #5 on Billboard 200

    Hillsong Church's Zion Album Debuts at #5 on Billboard 200

    Zion, the latest and third album from contemporary Christian and alternative rock band Hillsong United, is also now the group's most commercially successful album after striking gold with a mainstream audience and debuting at the number five spot on Billboard's 200 chart on Friday. It is also number one on Billboard's Christian Album chart.

  • Obama's Policies Have Hurt African Americans, Says Neurosurgeon Ben Carson

    If President Obama wants to be a hero in the African-American community, he should do something to alleviate the "abominable" black unemployment rate in America, says renowned neurosurgeon Dr. Benjamin Carson.

  • Interview: Dr. Benjamin Carson Talks Race, Politics and Life After Medicine

    Interview: Dr. Benjamin Carson Talks Race, Politics and Life After Medicine

    Renowned neurosurgeon Dr. Benjamin Carson, who became the subject of a national conversation after delivering a politically incorrect speech at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington D.C. last month, talked with The Christian Post on Thursday about race, politics and life after medicine. Below is an edited transcript of that conversation.

  • Quinnipiac Poll: Hillary Clinton Would Beat Top 2016 GOP Presidential Picks

    Quinnipiac Poll: Hillary Clinton Would Beat Top 2016 GOP Presidential Picks

    If the 2016 presidential elections were held now, Hillary Clinton would win in match-ups against potential GOP candidates Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin and New Jersey Gov. Christopher Christie, according to results of a national Quinnipiac poll released on Thursday.

  • Doctor Who 'Cured' Baby With HIV Is Former Christian Missionary

    Doctor Who 'Cured' Baby With HIV Is Former Christian Missionary

    Dr. Hannah Gay, the University of Mississippi Medical Center pediatrician whose treatment "functionally cured" a baby girl born with an HIV infection, is a Christian who previously spent years living as a missionary with her husband in Ethiopia.

  • Pope Betting to Rake in Millions; Boston's O'Malley Now 'Serious Contender'

    Pope Betting to Rake in Millions; Boston's O'Malley Now 'Serious Contender'

    Gambling on the next pope of the Roman Catholic Church is on track to draw millions of dollars in bets and become the biggest non-sporting event in the history of Ireland's leading bookmaker Paddy Power, which said on Wednesday that America's Cardinal Sean O'Malley is now a "serious contender" for the papacy.

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