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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Pastor serving life in prison for trafficking teen girl seeks compassionate release due to COVID-19
An Ohio pastor sentenced to life in prison last year for grooming a teenage girl to have sex with him and two other pastors is seeking compassionate release from prison by claiming his life is threatened by the coronavirus.
6 white seminary presidents meeting to discuss race is bad optics: black SBC leader
The head of the National African American Fellowship of the Southern Baptist Convention says he will soon meet with the leaders of the denomination’s most prominent seminaries to “discuss our concerns” regarding their recent statement denouncing racism but declaring critical race theory incompatible with their beliefs.
Beth Moore draws flak and praise after warning Christians against ‘dangerous’ Trumpism
Popular evangelical Bible teacher Beth Moore is drawing both flak and praise after delivering a stern warning to Christians against Trumpism, which she called “astonishingly seductive & dangerous.”
Transformation Church gives away $3.5M in house, cars, cash to bless those in need
Pastor Michael Todd of Transformation Church in Bixby, Oklahoma, led his congregation in a $3.5 million one-day blessings spree Sunday in which they helped scores of human service organizations, churches and individuals, including one needy family that received a new car and $250,000 to purchase a home.
Bible-toting gunman killed after shooting at Christmas carol event outside NY church
A Bible-toting gunman who opened fire at an open air a cappella Christmas choral event, held at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in Manhattan, was shot dead by police on Sunday after shouting “Kill me!” according to eyewitnesses.
Actor Kel Mitchell says he felt the ‘call’ to be a pastor ‘all through my life’
Before actor and comedian Kel Mitchell decided to surrender to the “call” he felt “all through my life” to become a pastor, he worried that perhaps he would have had to sacrifice his secular calling.
Miami megachurch pastor tells congregants not to take COVID-19 vaccine
Founding pastor of the Miami-based King Jesus International Ministry, Guillermo Maldonado, who is also a loyal supporter of President Donald Trump warned his congregation Sunday not to take the coronavirus vaccine because it is being used to prepare the world for the Antichrist and one world order.
Actor Matthew McConaughey: ‘I need the ritual of church on Sunday’
Academy Award–winning actor Matthew McConaughey who recently released his bestselling memoir Greenlights says attending church on Sunday is a necessity for him to stay grounded.
Missouri megachurch under fire after photos show packed Christmas services
James River Church, a multi-campus, 17,000-member megachurch in Missouri, is now fending off strong criticism from the public and health officials after pictures posted on social media showed what appear to be hundreds of unmasked people, practicing very little social distancing packed inside their Springfield location to participate in Christmas services.
Highlands Community Church lead pastor resigns over DUI, another fired amid sex scandal
Highlands Community Church in Renton, Washington, is trying to find healing after losing three pastors in the last few months, including their lead pastor, Jesse Campbell, who resigned after elders discovered he lied to them about the details of a DUI arrest.
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