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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  • Romney Strategist Says GOP Should Change Stance on Gay Marriage, Contraceptives

    Mitt Romney's lead campaign strategist in the 2012 presidential election called on the Republican Party in a recent op-ed to shift its policy positions on issues like gay marriage and contraceptives in order to attract younger voters.

  • Christian Science Teacher Fired Over Creationism to Head to Ohio Supreme Court

    A 20-year Ohio middle school science teacher who was fired in 2011 for teaching creationism in his class will have his day in the Ohio Supreme Court on Wednesday when his lawyers will argue that his firing was a violation of his First and Fourteenth Amendment rights to free speech and religion.

  • Indiana's Largest Megachurch Faces New Foreclosure Proceedings

    Indiana's Largest Megachurch Faces New Foreclosure Proceedings

    Indiana's largest megachurch, and America's 15th biggest congregation, the Family Christian Center, is now facing a new foreclosure case for a bank debt of more than $600,000.

  • Polls Showing Increasing Support for Gay Marriage Accused of Being 'Skewed'

    Polls Showing Increasing Support for Gay Marriage Accused of Being 'Skewed'

    Results of two polls recently published by the Washington Post suggesting that Americans are increasingly in favor of same-sex marriage and opposed to the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) have come under criticism from the Pennsylvania Pastors' Network, which contends that the results "are likely skewed" in favor of the gay rights advocacy groups that commissioned them.

  • NJ Pastor Convicted of Attempted Murder; Stabbed Mistress 28 Times

    NJ Pastor Convicted of Attempted Murder; Stabbed Mistress 28 Times

    A New Jersey pastor who was charged with stabbing his mistress, who was also the associate pastor at the church, 28 times then left her for dead at her hairdresser's house when she tried to end their longstanding adulterous affair, was convicted of attempted murder after a week-and-a-half-long trial last Friday and now faces up to 20 years in prison for his crimes.

  • Georgetown Prof: Neurosurgeon Ben Carson Unlikely to Get GOP Nomination

    Georgetown Prof: Neurosurgeon Ben Carson Unlikely to Get GOP Nomination

    While neurosurgeon Dr. Benjamin Carson's "powerful speech" at the National Prayer Breakfast two weeks ago has social conservatives rooting for him to run for president, he is unlikely to get the nod as the GOP's presidential nominee in 2016 if he decides to run, says Georgetown University professor Clyde Wilcox, who works in the school's Department of Government and is an expert on religion and politics.

  • Megachurch Workers in South Are Best Paid Among Peers

    Megachurch Workers in South Are Best Paid Among Peers

    Employees of megachurches located in the South are the highest paid group of megachurch workers in America, according to the recently released 2012 Large Church Salary Report by the Leadership Network.

  • Who Is Benjamin Carson?

    Who Is Benjamin Carson?

    Well before Dr. Benjamin Carson ever set foot at the podium to face the audience at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington D.C. on Feb. 7, the renowned neurosurgeon was already a brand on his own in the field of medicine.

  • Crystal Cathedral Founder Received 'Love Gift' to Fix Broken Heater, Dishwasher

    Crystal Cathedral Founder Received 'Love Gift' to Fix Broken Heater, Dishwasher

    A recent church newsletter revealed that the Rev. Robert H. Schuller, ex-leader and founder of the Crystal Cathedral Ministries and the world's longest running evangelistic television program in the world, "Hour of Power," depended on a "love gift" from a small church to fix his broken heater and dishwasher in January.

  • PoliSci Prof.: Ben Carson as President 'Doesn't Make Sense'

    PoliSci Prof.: Ben Carson as President 'Doesn't Make Sense'

    While many social conservatives have been giddy with excitement about the prospect of renowned neurosurgeon Dr. Benjamin Carson hitting the campaign trail for a presidential run in 2016, prominent Columbia University political scientist Fredrick Harris thinks it's a long shot.

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