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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God ‘didn’t give us this land,’ Jen Hatmaker says in apology for controversial inaugural prayer
Christian author Jen Hatmaker, who on Thursday joined a progressive group of interfaith leaders for the National Prayer Service in honor of President Joe Biden’s inauguration, has apologized for the first line of a prayer she delivered at the event.
Christopher Rufo vows to fight as Biden reverses ban on critical race theory in government
Christopher F. Rufo, a director at the Discovery Institute, who said his research inspired former President Donald Trump’s decision to abolish critical race theory training at federal agencies last year, announced a legal coalition to fight back after President Joe Biden reversed the move.
JD Greear's Summit Church to review hiring pastor accused of mishandling past sex crime allegations
The Summit Church in North Carolina, led by Southern Baptist Convention President J.D. Greear, said they have contracted global investigating firm Guidepost Solutions to independently review their recent hiring of Pastor Bryan Loritts who has been accused of mishandling past sex crime allegations at a previous church.
Relentless Church files motion against Redemption Church in ongoing real estate dispute
An ongoing dispute between the Ron Carpenter-led Redemption Church and John Gray’s Relentless Church in South Carolina over real estate has escalated after Relentless Church filed a motion in court last week seeking to enforce a settlement reached with Redemption Church last October.
LeeBeth Young, firstborn child of megachurch Pastor Ed Young, passes
Founding pastor of Fellowship Church in Grapevine, Texas, Ed Young, is mourning the death of his firstborn child, daughter Leebeth Young. She was 34.
Franklin Graham asks Christians to pray for peace during inauguration
Franklin Graham, president and CEO of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, has urged Christians to pray for “peace and calm” during the inauguration of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris Wednesday.
Pastor Dwight McKissic says he’s leaving SBTC, possibly SBC over critical race theory dispute
When leaders in the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention rebuked him for supporting missionaries praying and praising in tongues in 2006, prominent Southern Baptist Convention Pastor Dwight McKissic said he almost quit.
Pastor’s fatal heart attack at 32 points to chronic disease crisis among young black males
A 32-year-old Texas pastor's fatal heart attack may be a casualty of an “emerging chronic disease crisis” among young black American males, recent but limited research suggests.
Megachurch pastor AR Bernard doesn’t think the white Church should be desegregated
A.R. Bernard, the pastor and founder of New York City's largest evangelical congregation, says he doesn’t believe that there should be an intentional “movement to desegregate the white Church.”
Feeling politically powerless, black Christians find more comfort in black church: study
While feeling more politically powerless, black Christians have been increasingly finding more comfort and control being part of the black church in recent years, a new report from Barna Group shows.
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