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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SBC messengers approve task force for sex abuse investigation after leaders rejected expanded review
Two days after the Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee rejected a motion to create a task force to oversee a third-party investigation of allegations SBC leaders mishandled a “crisis of sexual abuse” in the denomination, messengers overwhelmingly approved a motion to do just that on Wednesday.
Trinity Church Wall Street awards $4.6M in grants to seminaries, churches and Christian orgs
Trinity Church Wall Street in Lower Manhattan, the richest Episcopal church in the world, which boasts a diverse investment portfolio worth $6 billion, has awarded more than $4.6 million in grants to Christian organizations across the United States, Africa and Latin America
Man contemplating self-harm changes mind after good Samaritan tells him ‘God loves you’
After spending hours dangling precariously from a sign above an Oklahoma highway as onlookers worried he would jump to his death Tuesday, a man in mental distress was convinced that life was worth living by a good Samaritan who told him, “God loves you.”
How evangelical teachings ruin sex and marriage for many women
New research shows many evangelical women are unsatisfied in the bedroom and popular blogger Sheila Wray Gregoire is staging a scholarly intervention with her latest book, "The Great Sex Rescue: The Lies You've Been Taught and How to Recover What God Intended."
Southern Baptists affirm commitment to racial reconciliation without fight over critical race theory
Southern Baptist messengers affirmed their commitment to racial reconciliation and the sufficiency of Scripture to address issues of race by adopting a resolution that avoided the contentious debate over critical race theory at the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention in Nashville Tuesday.
SBC official says increasing scope of sex abuse investigation would be ‘horrific’
The Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee shot down a motion Monday that sought to expand the scope of a recently commissioned independent investigation into allegations SBC leaders mishandled a “crisis of sexual abuse” in the denomination with one official declaring the move would be “horrific.”
Tony Evans calls for Christian unity amid racial tensions in the Church
In a rousing sermon in which he acknowledged ongoing racial tensions in the Church Sunday, prominent Dallas Pastor Tony Evans called on Christians “not to be part-time saints but fulltime Christians” and implored them to unite for the advancement of the Gospel as the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting kicks off in Nashville on Tuesday.
Before suicide, ex-youth pastor Steve Austin came out as queer, revealed family struggles
Days before he was found dead in Alabama of an apparent suicide, Steve Austin, a former youth pastor, suicide survivor and mental health advocate, sought financial help from subscribers to his newsletter as his wife, Lindsey, battled a mental health crisis a week after he publicly came out as queer.
Parents mourn pastor son shot dead after ministering to gunmen
Pastor Rodney Booth wants the killers of his 25-year-old son, Pastor Robert Booth of Hood Holiness Church of God in North Carolina, to know that they “took a great man away from" the world.
Whistleblower challenges SBC leaders’ response to Russell Moore letters
Days after Southern Baptist Convention leaders Mike Stone and Ronnie Floyd challenged claims by the former leader of the denomination’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, Russell Moore, that they mishandled a “crisis of sexual abuse” in the convention, a Texas pastor has come forward with evidence that he claims supports Moore’s claims.
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