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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Joel Osteen's mother, Dodie, who was healed from cancer 4 decades ago, dies at 91
Dodie Osteen, the co-founder of Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas, and the mother of the church’s current leader, Joel Osteen, has died more than four decades after she said she was miraculously healed from metastatic liver cancer, even though doctors gave her weeks to live in 1981. She was 91.
NYC mourns victims of mass shooting as slain officer’s widow says ‘pray for us’
Officials and multiple communities continue to mourn and offer prayers and support for the families of the four people shot dead by 27-year-old former football player Shane Tamura on Monday night inside a Manhattan skyscraper.
Pastor allegedly strangled, threatened to rape and kill wife after his alleged affair
A Pennsylvania pastor was evicted from his home by police after he allegedly strangled and threatened to rape, then kill his “high school sweetheart” wife during an argument over an alleged extramarital affair.
Pastor accused of sexually abusing teenage girl who sought grief counseling
An Arizona pastor has been arrested and remains in police custody after he was accused of sexually abusing a 16-year-old girl who he was supposed to be offering grief counseling after the death of her brother.
Gunman who killed 4 then himself in NYC blamed NFL, CTE in note
Shane Tamura, the 27-year-old gunman who killed four people — including a police officer — and himself inside a Manhattan skyscraper on Monday, said he was grappling with the progressive brain disease Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) and blamed the National Football League in a note he left behind, Mayor Eric Adams said.
Robert Morris wants Christian arbitration to settle pay dispute with Gateway Church
Gateway Church founder Robert Morris has insisted on resolving a bitter pay dispute with the Texas megachurch through Christian arbitration, following a district judge's order to reach an agreement on an arbitrator within 30 days.
Man built at least 7 bombs using AI, planned to set them off in Manhattan: DOJ
A Long Island man who authorities say made at least seven homemade bombs and threw at least one of them onto the subway tracks of the Williamsburg Bridge after expressing antisemitic comments and frustration about immigration in New York City was indicted on Tuesday.
Father shot twice in the face during Kentucky church shooting ‘devastated’ wife did not survive
A father of five who was sedated in the hospital after he was shot in the face twice by a gunman at Richmond Road Baptist Church in Lexington, Kentucky, recently learned his wife did not survive the attack as he regained consciousness at a local hospital.
Pastor William Ladd speaks out on black Baptist denomination accepting Target donation
A Tennessee pastor is criticizing the National Baptist Convention USA for accepting a $75,000 donation from retail giant Target amid Jamal Bryant's ongoing boycott of the company for scaling back of diversity, equity and inclusion policies.
Brady Boyd, wife launch new ministry after New Life asked him to resign
Soon after elders at New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado, urged their then-senior pastor, Brady Boyd, to resign in June, he and his wife, Pam, launched a new ministry in his home based on Psalm 68.
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