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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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.
‘President-elect Biden will seek after the heart of God,’ says pastor who will give benediction at inauguration
The Rev. Silvester Beaman, pastor of the Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Wilmington, Delaware, who will deliver the benediction at President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration ceremony next Wednesday, says he's confident the president-elect will “seek after the heart of God” to lead the country.
Fewer pastors now willing to preach sermons on race, study shows
Despite massive protests in 2020 against police brutality and racial injustice following the death of George Floyd, fewer pastors, particularly white congregation leaders, say they are willing to preach sermons on race compared to 2020, a new report from LifeWay Research has found.
Moderna CEO: World will have to live with COVID-19 ‘forever’
As new, more infectious variants of COVID-19 continue to pop up in the U.S. and other parts of the world, Stephane Bancel, CEO of Moderna, which is the maker of one of two coronavirus vaccines approved for use by the Food and Drug Administration, believes the virus could be around “forever.”
Pastor condemned for cursing those who ‘stole’ election from Trump during service
Several pastors have spoken out against a Kentucky megachurch pastor who during a service Sunday cursed those who “stole” the 2020 election from President Donald Trump in the name of Jesus.
Pastor Kirbyjon Caldwell who advised Bush, Obama sentenced to 6 years for fraud
Prominent Houston Pastor Kirbyjon Caldwell, who served as a spiritual adviser to former Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush, was sentenced to six years in prison Wednesday, just under a year after he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud in a multimillion dollar investment scheme.
Pastor killed in crash hours after warning church to be more prayerful about using social media
Matt Netzer, the 44-year-old pastor of RockPile Church in Marble Falls, Texas, was killed in a crash last Friday hours after warning his followers about discussing politics on social media.
PayPal blocks Christian crowdfunding site GiveSendGo
Digital payments processor PayPal Holdings Inc. has blocked the Christian crowdfunding site GiveSendGo after it was used to raise funds for people to attend a rally in Washington, D.C., last Wednesday that erupted in a deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Warnock calls Senate victory ‘a glimpse of God’s vision of a more inclusive humanity’
In his first sermon days after defeating Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler in a closely contested runoff election in Georgia, Rev. Raphael Warnock called his election as the southern state's first black senator on Sunday “a glimpse of God’s vision of a more inclusive humanity.”
Jeremiah Johnson gets threats after Trump prophecy apology; slams some in prophetic movement
Evangelical prophet Jeremiah Johnson said he’s now getting death threats from Christians after apologizing to his followers Thursday for “inaccurately prophesying” that President Donald Trump would win a second term.
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