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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For King and Country, Christian artists join virtual concert to help developing world suffering amid COVID-19
It would be a tragedy, says Joel Smallbone of Christian pop band, for King and Country, if the coronavirus pandemic ended and the world failed to learn anything from it or even grew closer to God.
Jerry Falwell Jr. will get $10.5M severance from Liberty U in wake of sex scandal
Since he wasn’t formally accused of or admitted to any wrongdoing, former Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. said he will walk away with a severance package totaling $10.5 million after his resignation Monday night in the wake of a sex scandal.
Liberty University accepts Jerry Falwell Jr.’s resignation ‘effective immediately’
The Board of Trustees of Liberty University, one of the largest evangelical Christian universities in the world, announced Tuesday that they had accepted the resignation of their president and chancellor, Jerry Falwell Jr., “effective immediately” after he and his wife, Rebecca, were implicated in a sex scandal Monday.
Pastor John Gray accused of another inappropriate relationship; lawyers say he’s being blackmailed
Lawyers for megachurch pastor John Gray said Monday that he is being blackmailed and extorted after the leader of Relentless Church in South Carolina was accused of engaging in another inappropriate relationship.
Catholic Republican calls Trump, Pence 'gifts' from God America doesn’t deserve
Kicking off the Republican National Convention on Monday, Jay Shepard, a Catholic Republican delegate from Vermont, described President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence as "gifts" that “God has bestowed upon us” but “not because we deserve them."
Telling the uncomfortable truth about racial reconciliation and the Church's struggle to achieve it
In the wake of global protests over inequality and police brutality sparked by the killing of George Floyd, many American Christians and churches are now struggling to strike the right note on racial reconciliation. Some religion scholars and pastors also warn that healing can’t happen without first telling the truth about the Church’s record on race.
Jerry Falwell denies claim he resigned from Liberty U, says he's on indefinite leave
In an interview with Politico Monday evening, Jerry Falwell Jr. denied reports that he has resigned as president and chancellor of Liberty University. He clarified that he is on "indefinite leave" after the Associated Press cited a school official earlier in the day to report that Falwell had resigned.
Jerry Falwell Jr. says he was depressed after wife had affair, man blackmailed family
Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr., who is currently on an “indefinite leave of absence,” revealed Sunday that he had been depressed after his wife, Rebecca, had an affair with a young man who then blackmailed his family.
Majority of black, Hispanic Americans support universal basic income; most whites oppose: poll
As support for guaranteed or universal basic income grows across America, a recent survey from the Pew Research Center says a majority of black and Hispanic Americans support monthly $1,000 payments from the federal government for all adult citizens regardless of work status. Most white Americans don’t back it.
Thousands urge Netflix to pull ‘Cuties’ film that sexualizes young girls after apology
Thousands of people are now urging popular streaming service Netflix to pull a controversial French film about an 11-year-old girl rebelling against her conservative family to join a dance crew, after the media company apologized for using a sexualized poster to promote the film.
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