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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Of an estimated 176 million American adults who identify as Christian, just 6% or 15 million of them actually hold a biblical worldview, a new study from Arizona Christian University shows.
After criticism, Jesse Duplantis says ministry donated $100K in generators to Ida victims
Louisiana televangelist Jesse Duplantis hit back at critics who charged that he and his ministry weren’t doing enough to help his storm-ravaged community of St. Charles Parish, where Hurricane Ida left most residents without power.
Christian college continues fight to keep single-sex dorms, showers protected from Biden's LGBT policy
The College of the Ozarks, a private Christian college in Point Lookout, Missouri, which filed a lawsuit earlier this year challenging government policy prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity as a violation of their First Amendment rights, is continuing its fight after the case was dismissed in June.
Christian CEO of video game developer steps down amid backlash to support for Texas abortion law
Two days after publicly announcing his support for Texas’ heartbeat bill banning most abortions in the state after six weeks gestation, John Gibson, the Christian president and co-founder of video game development and publishing company Tripwire Interactive, has stepped down amid fierce public backlash over his position.
With less economic security, more women with college degrees having babies out of wedlock: study
Facing diminishing returns from their education and overall economic insecurity, women with college degrees are now six times more likely to give birth to their first child out of wedlock than their counterparts just 25 years ago, a new study from Johns Hopkins University shows.
Trump launches new National Faith Advisory Board with Paula White at helm
Lamenting the current state of faith and religion in America as “not good,” former President Donald Trump launched a new National Faith Advisory Board last Thursday, with his spiritual advisor and televangelist Paula White at the helm.
Devout Christian, Super Bowl winner David Patten mourned after fatal crash
Friends and luminaries in the NFL remembered former wide receiver David Patten for his play, life and faith over the weekend after his tragic death in a motorcycle crash. He was 47.
Atty. Gen. Merrick Garland vows to ‘protect constitutional rights' of women seeking abortions in Texas
Less than a week after Texas’ heartbeat bill became law, banning most abortions in the state after six weeks gestation, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said Monday that the federal government was exploring “all options” to challenge it and “protect the constitutional rights of women and other persons.”
Satanic Temple argues abortion is religious right, challenging Texas law
The controversial Texas heartbeat bill, which bans most abortions in the state after six weeks' gestation, is now under attack from the Massachusetts-based group The Satanic Temple, which argues that the law infringes on the group’s religious freedom by imposing an “undue burden” on its "satanic abortion ritual."
Barna Group’s TruMotivate promises to help Christians, young people find true calling
Evangelical Christian polling firm Barna Group launched a new assessment tool Wednesday called TruMotivate that promises to help students and young adults find their true calling in life as recent studies show nearly half of Americans are now rethinking the kind of job they want to do amid the pandemic.
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