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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  • Ben Carson to Retire From Surgery; Open for 2016 Election?

    Ben Carson to Retire From Surgery; Open for 2016 Election?

    This June, renowned neurosurgeon Dr. Benjamin Carson will retire from surgery at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Md., where he has served as head of pediatric neurosurgery since he was 33, and possibilities about what he will do next are wide open, he says.

  • Dallas Megachurch of Robert Jeffress to Open $130 Million Campus in March

    Dallas Megachurch of Robert Jeffress to Open $130 Million Campus in March

    Congregants of the First Baptist Church of Dallas will be praising God in a gleaming $130 million facility come Easter Sunday, March 31, when the church opens its new state-of-the-art campus after nearly two years under construction.

  • Abortions Down in Pennsylvania With Nation's First-of-Its-Kind Alternative Program

    Abortions Down in Pennsylvania With Nation's First-of-Its-Kind Alternative Program

    An alternative program in Pennsylvania designed to empower women with unplanned pregnancies to choose life over abortion has resulted in a seven percent dip in the number of resident abortions in the state over the last 17 years.

  • Neurosurgeon Ben Carson Not Sorry for Prayer Breakfast Speech; Would Run for President?

    Neurosurgeon Ben Carson Not Sorry for Prayer Breakfast Speech; Would Run for President?

    Slammed by detractors for going "rogue" in delivering a politically incorrect speech criticizing government policies at the National Prayer Breakfast, attended by President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, last Thursday, renowned neurosurgeon Dr. Benjamin Carson says he won't apologize for speaking the truth. And although it's not his intention, he won't rule out a presidential run, either.

  • Christian Group Fights Pa. School District Over $1,200 Fee to Use Facility

    The Good News Club, a Christian-run group that once met for free at the Foose Elementary School in Harrisburg, Pa. is now fighting the Harrisburg School District in federal court to keep it that way after organizers were told they weren't providing a "community service" so could no longer meet at the school unless they paid an annual fee of $1,200.

  • Joel Osteen, Dwyane Wade to Talk Family, Fatherhood During NBA All-Star Weekend

    Joel Osteen, Dwyane Wade to Talk Family, Fatherhood During NBA All-Star Weekend

    A team of NBA stars, headlined by nine-time NBA All-Star and Miami Heat shooting guard Dwyane Wade, will join forces with popular Lakewood Church Senior Pastor, Joel Osteen, to talk about family and fatherhood this Friday during the 2013 NBA All-Star Weekend in Houston TX.

  • Creflo Dollar Promises $10,000 Help for Community Groups in 6-City Tour

    Creflo Dollar Promises $10,000 Help for Community Groups in 6-City Tour

    Megachurch prosperity preacher Creflo Dollar, pastor of World Changers Church International in Georgia, is bringing the gospel of change and a gift of $10,000 to one lucky community organization in each of the six new cities he will visit as a part of his 2013 Change experience.

  • Neurosurgeon Ben Carson's Politically Incorrect Speech at Prayer Breakfast a YouTube Sensation

    Neurosurgeon Ben Carson's Politically Incorrect Speech at Prayer Breakfast a YouTube Sensation

    The doctor's 25-minute speech displayed a "logical" and "common-sense" approach to issues like freedom of speech, education, taxation, the national debt and spirituality, and has already captured more than a million hits on YouTube and elicited headlines and calls like the Wall Street Journal's "Ben Carson for President."

  • 11-Year-Old Preacher Dreams of the Gospel in New Web Series

    Eleven-year-old child preacher Rev. Ezekiel Stoddard often envisions his future – a life wrapped up in preaching the gospel of Jesus. And right now, the young Christian phenom from Capitol Heights, Md., wouldn't have it any other way.

  • Christian Man Quits Job; Refuses to File Taxes Over '666' on W-2 Form

    It was the third time that broke his resolve. Walter Slonopas, 52, had complained on the job twice before about being assigned the number 666 on work documents. But when he noticed the dreaded number stamped on his W-2 form again last week, the devout Christian of 10 years felt he had no choice but to quit.

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