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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Christian school reported female teacher accused of sex with minor to shine light on darkness
Dana Jones, principal of the private Christian K3-12 C.H. Friend School in South Boston, Virginia, says the school acted on a biblical mandate to shine light into darkness when they told authorities about an English teacher suspected of having sex with an underage male, then fired her.
Central Christian Church grieves after multiple men accuse former youth pastor of abuse
Larry Kirk, the lead pastor of Central Christian Church in Baltimore County, Maryland, has called the recent arrest of former youth pastor Thomas Pinkerton on sex abuse charges “heartbreaking” and said the church is cooperating with police as they investigate him.
Church's sanctuary roof collapses hours after leaders notice cracks
The Haywood campus of the growing First Baptist Simpsonville Upstate Church in South Carolina escaped tragedy over the weekend when leaders managed to relocate services hours before the sanctuary's roof collapsed on Sunday morning.
Gateway Church officially turns page on Robert Morris with installation of Daniel Floyd
Gateway Church in Southlake, Texas, officially installed Daniel Floyd, as their new senior pastor on the weekend three months after elders announced they had selected him to replace their embattled founder, Robert Morris, who resigned over a year ago amid a child sex abuse scandal.
Central Bible Church elders asked Pastor David Daniels to resign over porn addiction
Elders at Central Bible Church in Fort Worth, Texas, said they recently asked their longtime lead pastor, David Daniels, to resign after he confessed to having a porn addiction.
Pastor who lost wife, daughter in Kentucky church shooting makes defiant return
Jerry Gumm, the 81-year-old pastor of Richmond Road Baptist Church in Lexington, Kentucky, who was critically injured and lost his wife and a daughter during a mass shooting at the church last month, says he won’t let the devil stop his praise. He urged his congregants to do the same.
Fugitive quadruple murder suspect Austin Robert Drummond dated victim's sister
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has announced a $15,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of fugitive quadruple murder suspect Austin Robert Drummond as family members reveal he was once in a relationship with one of the victims.
Marvin Sapp responds after Maverick City Music executive critiques gospel music
Gospel singer and pastor of The Chosen Vessel church in Fort Worth, Texas, Marvin Sapp, has weighed in after Norman Gyamfi, the CEO of Insignia Assets which owns Tribl Records and contemporary Christian worship music collective Maverick City Music, invoked Sapp’s popular “Never Would Have Made It” song in a controversial critique of the music genre.
Home connected to ‘TikTok cult’ leader is raided by feds
A home in Los Angeles co-owned by Robert Israel Shinn, the leader of group accused of being a cult known as Shekinah Church International, was raided by a team of local and federal officers who served a warrant for sex trafficking, tax evasion, mail fraud and money laundering.
Tenn. police hunt for suspect Austin Robert Drummond in quadruple murder, baby kidnapping
Police in Tennessee are seeking the public’s help in locating Austin Robert Drummond, a 29-year-old man suspected of murdering four relatives of a 7-month-old baby girl found abandoned in Dyer County.
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