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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'You're not a weak Christian if you see a therapist,' pastor tells congregants after attempted mass shooting
A week after 31-year-old Brian Browning attempted a mass shooting at CrossPointe Community Church in Wayne, Michigan, the congregation’s pastor urged his members to forgive him while acknowledging the trauma from the incident.
JD Greear’s Summit Church denies it attempted hostile takeover of Faith Baptist Church after docuseries
Leaders at Pastor J.D. Greear's 12,000-member multi-campus The Summit Church are defending him and the organization after a docuseries on their failed merger with Faith Baptist Church in Knightdale, North Carolina, suggested the megachurch used questionable tactics in a bid to take over the non-denominational church and its 30-acre campus valued at an estimated $25 million.
Pastor stole $200K from church as founder died, claimed he gave money to charity
A former California pastor who stole $200,000 from his church while their founder was dying during the COVID-19 pandemic will now have to pay back all the money and spend two years in state prison for his crime.
In search to heal America’s divisions, Fr. Richard Rohr suggests turning to God, ditching identity politics
A lot of what passes as religion in America today only helps perpetuate false narratives people create for themselves about who they think they are, says noted theologian Fr. Richard Rohr.
Some New Life Church members protest Brady Boyd’s resignation
Some members of New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado, mounted a strong protest outside the church on Sunday, a week after elders announced they asked Senior Pastor Brady Boyd to resign.
Ex-counselor charged with sex abuse arrested for threatening to shoot up Christian camp
Mario Bernal, an ex-employee of Camp Cho-Yeh in Livingston, Texas, was arrested for threatening children at the Christian camp that he would "create the next Columbine shooting” if they "piss him off."
Attorney of man who accused TD Jakes of sexual assault could face sanctions in defamation case
The efforts of former pastor-turned-registered sex offender Duane Youngblood in fending off a defamation lawsuit from megachurch founder T.D. Jakes in Pennsylvania, has suffered a massive blow as his New York City attorney Tyrone Blackburn now faces possible sanctions for submitting fabricated quotations and misleading analysis of case law to the court in his defense.
Lawyer TD Jakes claims sent him ‘$6M extortion letter’ is arrested for assault
A New York City-based attorney who megachurch pastor Bishop T.D. Jakes alleged sent him a “$6 million extortion letter” over claims he sexually assaulted former pastor Duane Youngblood decades ago when he was a teenager was arrested Wednesday for assault.
Deacon, member who stopped gunman at Crosspointe Community Church hailed as heroes
Thousands of dollars have been raised for two members of CrossPointe Community Church in Wayne, Michigan, who are now being hailed as heroes for helping to stop a man who attempted to carry out a mass shooting during the church's worship service on Sunday.
Judge cancels NC county’s rejection of JD Greear’s church expansion plan
U.S. District Judge for the Middle District of North Carolina William Osteen Jr. has temporarily canceled a decision of the Chatham County Board of Commissioners to reject the request by former Southern Baptist Convention President J.D. Greear's The Summit Church to rezone nearly 100 acres of land to house its Chapel Hill campus.
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