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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North Carolina church building amphitheater in preparation for future pandemics
A North Carolina church that already boasts a 6-acre lake on their property announced Sunday that they will add an amphitheater to their sprawling 75-acre campus in Gastonia this summer to be ready for future pandemics that could prevent them from worshiping indoors.
John MacArthur: ‘I wouldn’t fight for religious freedom because I won’t fight for idolatry’
While studies show most Americans support religious freedom as a core component of American cultural values, Pastor John MacArthur of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California, said he doesn’t support it because it allows idolatry.
Pastor who told women to keep slim, be sexually available in marriage is seeking counseling after backlash
A Missouri pastor who told women in his congregation to keep slim, wear makeup and be sexually available for their husbands to keep their marriages healthy is now under investigation by his denomination and is “seeking professional counseling” after backlash over his advice.
Rush Limbaugh helped plan funeral, ‘knew he was going to Heaven': widow
Late popular conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh who died last month after battling lung cancer helped plan his own funeral and was buried last Wednesday confident of his place in heaven according to his widow, Kathryn Limbaugh.
Donald Trump ‘thinks he’s like a god’ after golden statue emerges at CPAC, Michael Cohen says
Former President Donald Trump now “thinks he’s like a god” after a golden sculpture bearing his likeness became a major attraction at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Florida on Saturday his ex-lawyer, Michael Cohen said.
Veritas Forum cancels discussion on critical race theory after uproar over speaker
The Veritas Forum, a non-profit group that explores truth and life through various disciplines, including religion and science, apologized Monday and canceled a discussion on critical race theory after critics pointed out that one of their featured speakers was not a leading expert on race and Christianity.
19-y-o North Dakota student who survived near-fatal crash was found praying at wreck
Broden Frolek, a 19-year-old North Dakota State University student who suffered multiple fractures and brain injury after a near-fatal crash last fall, says he now prays multiple times a day as his family credits God with saving his life.
Prominent Georgia pastor dies from COVID-19 at 44; community mourns
Shockwaves of grief are still rippling through the black Baptist community in Georgia after Rev. Bryant Wardell Raines, a prominent local activist and leader of the New Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Church in Macon, died last Wednesday from COVID-19 complications.
Voddie Baucham underwent ‘very successful’ surgery for heart failure, expects full recovery
Prominent Southern Baptist preacher Voddie Baucham Jr. underwent a “very successful” surgical procedure to treat his heart failure at the Mayo Clinic in Florida last Thursday and is looking forward to making a “full recovery.”
Oklahoma state senator wants ban on critical race theory in public schools
Branding the idea as “divisive,” Republican Oklahoma State Sen. Shane Jett is now pushing to ban critical race theory from being taught in local public schools.
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