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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Majority of black Americans remain highly religious even if they don't go to church
Even if they don’t go to church or subscribe to a particular religion, a majority of black Americans still pray and believe in God or a higher power, a new study shows.
Herschel Walker says reparations is ‘outside teaching of Jesus’
Former professional football player Herschel Walker told the House Judiciary Committee during a hearing on reparations for black Americans that white America should not be asked to pay for the sins of their forefathers because it is outside the teachings of Jesus.
SBC seminary helps Dwight McKissic after home suffers damage in Texas winter storm
Despite his criticism of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Council of Seminary Presidents’ statement on critical race theory, outspoken SBC Pastor Dwight McKissic was blessed by one of the council's six members after water damaged his Texas home amid wild winter weather this week.
Most black Americans attend black churches but want diversity: study
While most black Americans believe historically black congregations should become more racially and ethnically diverse, the majority prefer to attend predominantly black congregations that feature distinctive expressions of worship like praying in tongues.
How Voddie Baucham fought for years to protect his heart, health
Prominent Southern Baptist author and preacher Voddie Baucham Jr. is getting treatment at the Mayo Clinic in Florida for his recently diagnosed heart failure, but for at least a decade, the 51-year-old father of nine had been doing everything he could to avoid this health outcome.
Nashville church says Bible isn’t the Word of God, then draws ire
A progressive Nashville church has drawn the ire of the internet after sharing a message on social media declaring the Bible isn’t the Word of God, inerrant or infallible.
Henry Louis Gates: Black people didn’t embrace Christianity to get to Heaven
While it was a “distant motivation,” black Americans did not embrace Christianity to get to Heaven, according to renowned historian, filmmaker and public intellectual Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Texas winter disaster delays Voddie Baucham’s quest for heart failure treatment in Florida
Prominent Southern Baptist author and preacher Voddie Baucham Jr., who recently revealed his struggle with “full-blown heart failure,” said he is trying to get to Florida for treatment but was still stuck in snow-ravaged Texas Tuesday night without power.
Melvin Banks Sr., founder of largest black-owned Christian publishing company, dies at 86
Melvin E. Banks Sr., the founder of Urban Ministries, Inc., the largest independent, African American-owned and operated Christian media and publishing company, passed away Saturday at 86.
John MacArthur’s men’s conference postponed after threats from California officials
John MacArthur’s Shepherds’ Conference for men in church leadership, which was expected to draw some 3,000 attendees to the megachurch in Sun Valley, California, next month, has been postponed due to “ongoing litigation" and "threats" from the state.
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