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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  • SBC Pastors Want Legacy But Won't Help to Get It, Study

    SBC Pastors Want Legacy But Won't Help to Get It, Study

    Pastors from most Southern Baptist Churches (SBC) believe Christians should bequeath them a piece of their estate when they make their plans but most of them do nothing to educate church members about bow to give it according to a recent Lifeway study.

  • NYC Public Schools Hand Out 13,000 Morning-After Pill Doses

    NYC Public Schools Hand Out 13,000 Morning-After Pill Doses

    New York City public schools handed out nearly 13,000 doses of the morning-after pill to high school students during the last school year and no one had to tell their parents about it.

  • Fame, Faith and a Fire, Sweet Brown's Star Continues to Turn

    Fame, Faith and a Fire, Sweet Brown's Star Continues to Turn

    Oh Lord Jesus it's a fire! She escaped from a fire and lived to talk about it. Now everybody is talking about one-time babysitter-turned-Internet-sensation Sweet Brown and the humorously candid account she gave of her escape to Oklahoma City's NewsChannel4 last spring.

  • Va. Man Pleads Guilty to Family Research Council Shooting

    Va. Man Pleads Guilty to Family Research Council Shooting

    A Virginia man pleaded guilty in federal court Wednesday to several charges related to the shooting at the conservative Family Research Council (FRC) building in Washington, D.C., last year.

  • National Marriage Week Tackles Poverty, Christian Divorce Rate, and Intimacy Problem

    Take your pick. Whether you are looking for ideas for a date night, Valentine's Day or a bigger solution to preserving your marriage this year, National Marriage Week USA, celebrated on February 7-14 annually, will help you find much more than a rose and a box of chocolate for your troubles.

  • Christian Baker Under Fire for Refusing Wedding Cake for Lesbian Couple

    Christian Baker Under Fire for Refusing Wedding Cake for Lesbian Couple

    A Gresham, Ore., baker is now facing fire and praise from both advocates and opponents of same-sex relationships, and an investigation from the Oregon Attorney General's Office after he refused to make a cake for a lesbian wedding citing his Christian faith.

  • Christian University Honors Controversial Abortionist With Name on Center

    Christian University Honors Controversial Abortionist With Name on Center

    La Sierra University, an institution owned by the Seventh Day Adventist Church boasting an environment "where academic investigation, Christian faith and service to others unite," has found a strange bedfellow in controversial abortionist Edward C. Allred, naming a center in its business school in honor of gifts donated by the doctor who is also a professional gambler.

  • Roland Martin: Christian Athletes Should Keep Praising God in Public

    Roland Martin: Christian Athletes Should Keep Praising God in Public

    Popular journalist and columnist Roland Martin encouraged Christian athletes to "keep shining" despite criticisms of their public gestures of faith, naming Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis as an example.

  • Twitter Yanks Black Pro-Life Group's Account for Blasting NAACP

    Activists with the National Black Prolife Coalition (NBPLC) were lobbying on Friday to have their Twitter account restored after the social media company yanked their tweeting privileges for attacking the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) online last week.

  • Marriage Not There to Make You Happy, Says Megachurch Pastor

    Marriage Not There to Make You Happy, Says Megachurch Pastor

    If finding that proverbial bliss is behind your motivation to get married, you might just change your mind after you hear what former NFL player and senior pastor of the Rock Church in San Diego, Calif., Miles McPherson, has to say about it.

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