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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Tom Keesee, son of Faith Life Church founders, indicted on 11 counts of rape, other sex crimes
Following months of allegations of sexual abuse, Gary Thomas Keesee, a son of Gary and Drenda Keesee, founders and senior pastors of Faith Life Church in Ohio, was indicted by a grand jury on 27 counts of sex crimes, including 11 counts of rape.
Pastor Jamal Bryant rejects Target offer to settle DEI dispute, declares ‘full boycott’
Megachurch Pastor Jamal Bryant said Target’s pledge to invest $2 billion into black-owned businesses by July 31 was not enough to settle a dispute over the retail giant’s decision to scale back its DEI initiatives.
Rescued Tennessee missionary Josh Sullivan breaks silence with gratitude
In his first public comments since he was rescued from his kidnappers after a deadly shootout in South Africa last Tuesday, Tennessee missionary Josh Sullivan expressed immense gratitude to God and the people who prayed for him. He is also looking forward to sharing his “miraculous story.”
Target CEO meets with Al Sharpton as Pastor Jamal Bryant plans next phase of boycott
Target CEO Brian Cornell met with civil rights leader the Rev. Al Sharpton Thursday as megachurch Pastor Jamal Bryant announced that nearly 200,000 people had signed up for a 40-day boycott of the retail giant over the company’s decision to scale back diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. rings alarm on rising autism, calls for examination of environmental factors
A day after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s latest Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network survey showed a significant increase in the prevalence of autism, United States Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called for a look at environmental factors that could be causing the neurological disorder.
Female victim of ex-Kanakuk Kamps director convicted for abusing boys files lawsuit
After a wave of lawsuits involving sex crimes with boys, a woman has now filed a lawsuit alleging Peter Newman, a convicted former director at the network of Christian sports camps called Kanakuk Kamps, sexually abused her when she was 9.
Sisters sue Coastal Church, former youth group assistant for $300M for childhood sex abuse
Two sisters have filed separate lawsuits seeking $150 million each against a Virginia multi-campus church and a former youth group assistant for the childhood sexual abuse they suffered beginning when they were just 6 and 10 years old.
Kidnapped US missionary Josh Sullivan rescued ‘miraculously unharmed’ after shootout left 3 dead
Five days after he was kidnapped by armed men from his church in Motherwell, South Africa, Tennessee missionary Josh Sullivan was rescued and “miraculously unharmed” following a “high-intensity shootout” that left three people dead.
Americans are swapping organized religion for personal truth: study
While respected Christian researchers like George Barna have been sounding the alarm on the dangers of syncretism to a biblical worldview in recent years, a new study published Monday suggests more Americans are leaving organized religion in search of personalized faith perspectives that embrace syncretism — a fusion of different religions.
Before abduction in South Africa, US missionary Josh Sullivan said he forgave man who robbed him
Months before he was abducted from his growing church in the impoverished Motherwell township in South Africa last Thursday, Tennessee missionary and married father of four Josh Sullivan said he was robbed of his wallet by a young neighborhood man who almost got killed for the crime.
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