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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Ron Carpenter announces new Greenville Redemption campus amid lawsuit with John Gray
Redemption Church Pastor Ron Carpenter has announced that he is returning to Greenville, South Carolina, with a new campus in 2021 to provide a spiritual home for former congregants who are now in distress after a botched handover of his longtime church in that city to fellow megachurch leader John Gray.
Greg Laurie says COVID-19 symptoms ‘were never that bad,’ will return to pulpit Sunday
Crediting the prayers of his supporters with his quick recovery from COVID-19 symptoms that “were never that bad,” Harvest Christian Fellowship Senior Pastor Greg Laurie said he expects to return to his pulpit on Sunday.
Bank drops foreclosure suit against James MacDonald months after his settlement with megachurch
Controversial founder of Harvest Bible Chapel in greater Chicago, James MacDonald, is no longer in danger of losing his sprawling $1.6 million custom-built home in Elgin, Illinois, after the bank holding his mortgage withdrew a foreclosure lawsuit against him Wednesday.
Amid looming global hunger crisis, UN’s World Food Program wins Nobel Peace Prize
Amid a looming global hunger crisis accelerated by the coronavirus pandemic, the United Nation’s World Food Program which works to bring aid to millions of food insecure people, has been awarded the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize, the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced Friday.
Jon Steingard suggests pandemic forced him to reveal he is no longer a Christian
Jon Steingard, former frontman for the Canadian Christian rock band Hawk Nelson who revealed in May that he no longer believes in God, suggested that if the pandemic didn’t happen, he may not have shared his unbelief with the world.
Pandemic could result in loss of faith in next generation, Barna researchers say
The coronavirus pandemic could accelerate a loss of faith among the next generation unless churches find ways to better disciple young churchgoers and keep them connected senior researchers at the Barna Group say.
Thom Rainer settles dispute with LifeWay, heading off lawsuit; will honor transition agreement
The Southern Baptist Convention’s publishing arm LifeWay Christian Resources and the organization’s former president Thom Rainer announced Tuesday that they have come to “an amicable resolution of their differences” heading off a potentially embarrassing breach of contract lawsuit.
Thom Rainer says he hopes to resolve LifeWay lawsuit Tuesday; already returning severance
Former president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s LifeWay Christian Resources, Thom Rainer, said he hopes to resolve a lawsuit for allegedly breaching his severance agreement with the denomination’s publishing arm by Tuesday, and noted that he began returning a portion of more than $1 million in severance pay.
Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation hearing will begin next Monday, Sen. McConnell says
The confirmation hearing for President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett will begin next Monday as planned Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has announced.
Supreme Court Justices Thomas, Alito suggest same-sex marriage decision be reconsidered
Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito Jr. appeared to suggest that the court should reconsider the landmark Obergefell v. Hodges decision that made same-sex marriage a constitutional right because it threatens the religious liberty of Americans who believe “marriage is a sacred institution between one man and one woman.”
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