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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Pastor, wife who claim God told them to sell cryptocurrency indicted on fraud charges
A Denver pastor and his wife, who claim God told them to sell cryptocurrency, have been indicted on fraud charges.
New York pastor seeks to quell teen violence by offering Nike sneakers for guns
Pastor Charles Muller of Victory Church in Albany has been trying to get teenagers across the city to surrender illegal guns for more than a decade. And this year, he’s offering cash cards and Nike sneakers in exchange for their cooperation.
Bishop Charles Ellis, pastor once accused of touching Ariana Grande, admits to affair with ex-member
Bishop Charles H. Ellis III, the longtime senior pastor of the nearly 6,000-member Greater Grace Temple in Detroit, Michigan, has admitted to engaging in an “inappropriate relationship” with a former member.
Members praise God in tents after fire destroys historic black church in South Carolina
Despite a massive fire destroying their more than century-old church building on Saturday, members of the Pleasant Grove Baptist Church in Darlington County, South Carolina, gathered for worship in tents at the site of their church to give God glory on Sunday morning.
Family delays telling hospitalized pastor his wife is dead after Richmond Road Baptist Church shooting
A few hours after his wife and one of her daughter’s were buried in a joint funeral a week after they were shot at his church, Jerry Gumm, Pastor of Richmond Road Baptist Church in Lexington, Kentucky, was still recuperating from his injuries at a local hospital.
Mark Driscoll rebukes Chip Gaines for featuring gay couple on ‘Back to the Frontier’
Calling it a betrayal of Christ and his core Evangelical audience, outspoken megachurch preacher Mark Driscoll offered a strong rebuke to Christian producer and reality TV star Chip Gaines for defending the inclusion of a gay couple on his new television series "Back to the Frontier."
Pastor's wife, daughter murdered at Richmond Road Baptist Church to be buried Saturday
A pastor's wife and daughter, who were murdered at Richmond Road Baptist Church in Kentucky, will be buried on Saturday.
‘Christian superstar’ pastor, Kenneth Flowers, gets 4-15 years in prison for rape of teen boy
The Rev. Kenneth Flowers, the prominent former leader of the Greater New Mount Moriah Missionary Baptist Church in Detroit, Michigan, once described by a judge as a “Christian superstar,” was sentenced to spend four to 15 years in prison for the sexual assault of a 17-year-old boy in his home.
Advocate warns against teen use of AI companions as study shows heavy use by demographic
Until more safeguards are in place for artificially intelligent companions like Character.AI or Replika to "eliminate relational manipulation and emotional dependency risks," nonprofit media and technology reviewer Common Sense Media recommends that no one under the age of 18 should use them.
Family asks for prayers after former baseball player Chase Childers drowns saving 5 people
The family of Chase Childers, a former professional baseball player and police officer with the Cobb County Police Department in Georgia, is asking for prayers after he drowned Sunday while trying to save five others from drowning on Pawleys Island in South Carolina. He was 38.
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