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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Actor and comedian Drew Desbordes, better known as Druski, who famously mocked prosperity preachers in a viral video skit earlier this year, will expand on that narrative in a new semi-scripted comedy series on Netflix called “Collect & Praise.”
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Some five months after he was acquitted of sexual assault charges by a Tarrant County grand jury due to insufficient evidence, Texas Pastor Ronnie Goines allegedly sexually assaulted another woman, according to claims in a new personal injury lawsuit.
Pastor Mike Stone announces daughter Sarah has died after long battle with chronic illness
After several years of chronic illness, Sarah Ellington Stone, the younger daughter of prominent Southern Baptist pastor Mike Stone, has died. She was 19.
Faith communities may be missing up to $30B in giving annually: study
By creating more consistent givers, faith communities across the U.S. could generate up to $30 billion more in donations annually, according to a report released by Givelify Philanthropic Research & Insights, a research initiative of online and mobile donation platform Givelify.
Church rejoices as pastor recovers after passing out, hitting head during sermon; ‘It must have been his sugar’
A Georgia congregation rejoiced Tuesday after their pastor was sent home from the hospital just a day after he collapsed and passed out while preaching.
Ex-Acts 29 CEO Stephen Timmis, wife charged with alleged rape from 18 years ago when he led UK church
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