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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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.
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.
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