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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After setting record for baptisms in California, pastor wants to baptize America, then the world
In what has been dubbed the largest synchronized baptism in American history, more than 12,000 people were baptized in the name of Christ across California on Pentecost Sunday. The pastor who founded the movement to make it happen called Baptize California says he plans to take it across America and then the world.
AME official Jerome V. Harris dies amid lawsuit over nearly $100M missing from pension fund
Jerome V. Harris, the former executive director of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, Inc.’s Department of Retirement Services who was accused in a federal lawsuit of losing nearly $100 million from the denomination’s retirement plan, has died. He was 79.
IHOPKC’s Forerunner Church closes with final service amid Mike Bickle scandal
International House of Prayer Kansas City continues to unravel amid founder Mike Bickle's sex scandal as its Forerunner Church held a final service in the fellowship of about 1,000 worshipers Sunday, leaving some in tears.
Las Vegas pastor escapes jail time for sex crimes case but required to register as sex offender
Nearly three years after he was charged with sexual assault, child abuse and other crimes involving multiple underage victims, Pastor Bobby Cornealius Smith of New Beginnings Ministries Church of God in Christ in Las Vegas, Nevada, was sentenced to one-year probation during which he will be required to register as a sex offender. However, he will continue to serve as a pastor, his attorney said.
Docs show church of Mica Miller’s husband owns $430K plane, millions in assets as family mulls lawsuit
As the family of Mica Miller, the wife of Pastor John-Paul Miller of Solid Rock at Market Common church in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, mull a wrongful death lawsuit aimed at her husband after her suicide, a new report shows the church owns millions in assets including a private aircraft estimated to worth around $430,000.
California pastor married to porn star Christy Love pleads guilty to raping younger sister
A California pastor, who openly stated that his wife is an active "adult actress" but still serves as co-pastor of the church, is now facing a 30-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to multiple felonies, including the rape of his younger sister when he was a teenager.
Attendance at Jimmy Carter's church staggered after he stopped teaching Sunday school, deacon says
A deacon at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Georgia, where former President Jimmy Carter is a member, says attendance dropped after he stopped teaching Sunday school and the church's hiring of its first woman lead pastor is an effort to bring people back to their pews.
America facing ‘mental health disaster,’ American Association of Christian Counselors head says
America is in the throes of a "mental health disaster" that requires a holistic solution grounded in a biblical worldview and starting in the family, according to Tim Clinton, president of the American Association of Christian Counselors.
5 people overdose outside Alabama church that ministers to homeless
Five people almost died on Wednesday night outside the Church of the Reconciler United Methodist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, after experiencing drug overdoses, officials have confirmed.
Actor Kel Mitchell claims he was told ex-wife hexed him during exorcism of multiple demons
Christian actor and Pastor Kel Mitchell claims he discovered he was hexed by his ex-wife during an hourlong prayer session in which he was exorcised of multiple demons by an evangelist after they finally ended the relationship he described as "toxic."
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