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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Reactions to the death of Grammy nominated gospel and opera singer, Jubilant Sykes, continue to emerge Thursday following his fatal stabbing at his home in California and the arrest of one of his sons, Micah Sykes by local police.
Grace Community Church mourns murder of member, celebrated Christian singer Jubilant Sykes
Grace Community Church is mourning the loss of its longtime member of the church’s music ministry, Grammy-nominated gospel and opera singer, Jubilant Sykes. He was found stabbed to death in his home by police who arrested his son.
Ex-Truett McConnell University VP indicted for lying to police during sex abuse investigation
Former Truett McConnell University Academic Services Vice President Bradley Reynolds, who was accused of rape and grooming by former student-athlete Hayle Swinson, has been indicted for lying to police in Georgia during an investigation of the allegations last year.
Rep. Jasmine Crockett’s pastor, Frederick Haynes, launches bid to fill her congressional seat
Rev. Frederick Douglass Haynes III, senior pastor of the 13,000-member Friendship-West Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas, who counts Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, among his flock, launched a bid to fill her District 30 congressional seat Monday after she formally announced her run for the U.S. Senate on the same day.
Pastor Jamal Bryant slams removal of fee-free entry to parks on MLK Day, Juneteenth
Outspoken civil rights activist and megachurch pastor Jamal Bryant has criticized a recent move by the National Park Service to remove Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth from its calendar of fee-free days to enter national parks and add "Flag Day/President [Donald] Trump's birthday," calling it a "slap in the face."
Jonathan Evans, son of Tony Evans, installed as new leader of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship
Tony Evans' son, Jonathan Evans, was formally installed as the new lead pastor at Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship Church in Dallas, Texas, two months after elders restored their founding Pastor back to ministry following an undisclosed sin.
Churchgoers gift more money, food at Christmastime to help those in need: study
Christmas has long been a time of giving, and for church-going Protestants, this generally translates into giving more money and food to help those in need, a new study published by Lifeway Research shows.
As Christians put more trust in AI, pastor warns of idolatry
As a growing number of people have been turning to apps like Text With Jesus for spiritual guidance, Pastor Ray Miller of First Baptist Church in Abilene, Texas, warns that the rapid adoption of the technology in the faith arena could become "another type of idol pulling at our attention."
Majority of pastors now using AI to prepare sermons amid rapid embrace of technology: study
A majority of pastors are now using artificial intelligence to prepare their sermons, with ChatGPT and Grammarly reported as the top two AI tools, new survey data shows.
Missionary pilot was breathing heavy in final moments before fatal plane crash with daughter: NTSB
In the final moments just before Ignite the Fire founder and CEO Alexander Wurm fatally crashed his Beech King Air B100 airplane near Coral Springs, Florida, with his adult daughter Serena last month, air traffic control recorded heavy breathing and grunting.
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