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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Christian relationship guru Derrick Jaxn admits extramarital affairs; wife says God has forgiven him
Gripping tightly to his forgiving wife’s hand on Monday, popular Christian relationship guru Derrick Jaxn, who is well known for preaching a message that black men don't cheat, confessed to his millions of social media followers that he had been unfaithful to his wife multiple times.
Mixing religion and politics leading to rise of the 'nones,' scholars say
The marrying of religion and politics among conservatives to create the well-known and powerful religious right that forms a voting bloc for the Republican Party has led some Americans to abandon their ties to the Christian faith and join the ranks of secularists, scholars argue in a new book.
Robert Aaron Long struggled with sins he committed at massage parlors, former roommate says
Robert Aaron Long, the 21-year-old who's now facing multiple murder charges for killing eight people at three massage parlors in the Atlanta area on Tuesday, struggled with sexual sins he committed in these establishments, a former roommate says.
AME pastor who admitted to having ‘some bourbon’ charged with DUI
Lavan Strickland, a longtime counselor and leader of the New Webb Grove AME Church in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, was arrested and charged with a DUI on Sunday after he attempted to flee the scene of a crash and admitted to having “some bourbon.”
Christian mass shooter Robert Long was tired of ‘temptation’ posed by massage parlors: police
Christian mass shooter Robert Aaron Long, 21, told police he was addicted to pornography and was trying to eliminate “temptation” when he shot up three massage parlors in the Atlanta area, killing eight people who were mostly Asian women Tuesday evening, and was planning to shoot up more in Florida.
Southern Baptist church where mass shooting suspect Robert Aaron Long was baptized grieves for dead
The Southern Baptist church where 21-year-old mass shooting suspect Robert Aaron Long got baptized twice is now grieving for his victims and the families impacted by his deadly shooting rampage at three massage parlors in the Atlanta area that left eight people dead Tuesday including six Asian women.
After SBC ousts Tennessee church, pastor convicted of statutory rape resigns
John Randy Leming Jr., a pastor at Antioch Baptist Church in Sevierville, Tennessee, whose past as a convicted rapist caused the Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee to disfellowship his congregation last month has resigned.
Most European countries suspend use of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine over blood clot fears
Most European Union countries including Spain, France, Italy and Germany have suspended the use of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine amid fears of rare blood clots and abnormal bleeding. The pharmaceutical company and health officials in the region insist however there is no cause for alarm.
Tree injures pastor in accident, wife dies of heart attack on same day
Members of First Baptist Church of Richburg, South Carolina, sobbed in shock after learning their pastor was badly injured and his wife had suffered a fatal heart attack on the same day.
WNBA champion who says she was bullied in league for being straight shares how faith kept her
Former WNBA star Candice Wiggins sees herself as a non-traditional Christian who has walked a rocky road. Three years ago, Wiggins says she was forced to retire early in part because she was bullied for being straight in a league she estimates is 98% gay. After telling her truth though, Wiggins now reveals how she leaned on her faith after she was attacked with “unimaginable anger.”
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