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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Former real estate broker John Termini steps up to help lead Hillsong NYC after sex scandal
Pastor John Termini, a former real estate broker and his wife, Katie, have stepped in to lead the scandal-scarred Hillsong NYC in the wake of an explosive sex scandal that took down the church’s former celebrity lead pastor Carl Lentz.
Televangelist Frederick KC Price fighting for life after COVID-19 ravages heart, lungs and kidneys
A global call for prayers is now circulating for the 89-year-old founder of the 28,000-member Los Angeles-based Crenshaw Christian Center, Frederick K.C. Price, after a weekslong bout with COVID-19 left him with a ravaged heart, lungs and kidneys.
Official denies John MacArthur makes more than $500K a year from Grace to You
California megachurch Pastor John MacArthur’s ministry denied he makes more than $500,000 annually from his Grace to You media ministry and defended the stewardship of his collective ministries' finances on Tuesday after a recent report suggested his private lifestyle belies the modesty he preaches at the pulpit.
Kentucky church votes not to resume indoor services until 70% of city is vaccinated
Leaders at First Presbyterian Church in Lexington, Kentucky, voted Monday to keep indoor worship services suspended until 70% of the city is vaccinated as a more highly transmissible coronavirus variant spreads rapidly around the U.S.
Some black leaders say there's room for dissent in SBC over CRT
As a racial and ideological divide over critical race theory continues to roil the Southern Baptist Convention, two of the denomination’s senior black leaders insist the denomination is big enough to accommodate dissent.
California to revise indoor church guidelines after Supreme Court ruling
The office of California Gov. Gavin Newsom said the state will soon issue revised guidelines for indoor worship services after the Supreme Court granted an emergency injunction against a public health ban on the practice but kept restrictions on singing, chanting and crowd size in place.
It’s time for SBC leaders to take racial turmoil to God, Illinois pastors say
A group of black and white pastors from the Illinois Baptist State Association are urging a return to the Bible and the setting aside of politics to help heal the racial divide in the Southern Baptist Convention that has erupted over politics and theology in recent months.
Cicely Tyson’s pastor remembers her faith as family announces public viewing
A public viewing for the late award-winning actor Cicely Tyson, who died at the age of 96 on Jan. 28, will be held this month at the famed Abyssinian Baptist Church in New York City where she was a member and attended every Sunday when she could, according to her pastor, the Rev. Calvin Butts III.
Catholic Church amassed billions in PPP aid despite having billions of own money: report
Catholic churches and their related institutions amassed at least $1.5 billion in funding from the government’s Paycheck Protection Program while sitting on billions of dollars of their own money, a new Associated Press investigation has found.
JD Greear urges pastors not to call VP Kamala Harris ‘Jezebel,' but to pray for her
Southern Baptist Convention President J.D. Greear is urging pastors in the denomination to refrain from calling Vice President Kamala Harris “Jezebel” due to the racist connotations of the moniker. He is calling on them to honor and pray for her as an elected leader instead.
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