
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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Women controlling husbands with sex, other means is destructive, Transformed Wife warns
Lori Alexander, a veteran Christian wife also known through her blog as The Transformed Wife, is warning married women that their desire to control their husbands through a matriarchal spirit using sex, an insistence on being right, always “having the last word” and others means could lead to the destruction of their marriage.

SBC presidential hopeful Mike Stone wants denomination to fully reject critical race theory
Two years after the Southern Baptist Convention acknowledged in Resolution 9 that critical race theory can be a useful analytical tool to explain how race has and continues to function in society, Mike Stone, pastor of Emmanuel Baptist Church in Blackshear, Georgia, is proposing a new resolution asking the denomination to condemn the theory.

Voddie Baucham doesn’t believe in ‘white privilege,’ thinks America on verge of ‘race war’
Although traditional Christian publishers turned their back on his latest book, Fault Lines: The Social Justice Movement and Evangelicalism's Looming Catastrophe, denouncing critical race theory and the social justice movement, prominent Southern Baptist preacher Voddie Baucham Jr. found a home for it at Salem Books and it is now one of the most talked about works in evangelicalism.

Ohio megachurch will donate $2.5M over next 25 weeks
An Ohio megachurch among several churches nationwide to receive millions of dollars last year under the federal government’s Paycheck Protection Program has announced it will give away $2.5 million over the next 25 weeks.

SBC church membership suffers new historic 1-year decline of more than 400K
A year after reporting the largest single-year membership decline in more than 100 years, churches in the Southern Baptist Convention, the nation’s largest Protestant denomination, lost more than 400,000 members in 2020 and set a new record for the single-year decline amid the coronavirus pandemic and a bitter culture war.

George Floyd’s sister says she’s leaning on God as anniversary of killing approaches
Just days away from the one year anniversary of her brother’s death which triggered a summer of protests for racial justice in 2020, George Floyd’s sister, Bridgett Floyd who started a foundation in his name, says her faith in God helped her survive his passing.

Churches needed more than ever to treat COVID-19 ‘trauma’: TD Jakes
As the nation slowly emerges from the deadly grip of the COVID-19 pandemic with vaccinations and declining case numbers, the Church will be needed more than ever to treat the “residue of trauma” left in the wake of the virus, according to megachurch leader and televangelist Bishop T.D. Jakes.

Rock Church suspends indoor services after staffers test positive for COVID-19
A month after Rock Church in San Diego, California, held their first indoor worship service since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, the church has suspended indoor worship at all of their campuses for May 23, except at the Point Loma and microsite locations, after multiple staffers tested positive for COVID-19.

More than 120 priests die in 2 weeks amid COVID-19 outbreak in India
Father Victor David, parish priest of Our Lady of Happy Voyage in Howrah, India, died from COVID-19 last Thursday at the Mercy Hospital hours after Sister Pranita Rai, principal of St. Teresa’s School in Kidderpore, died from the disease too.

Zachery Tims' ex-wife Riva weds ‘best friend’ and ‘heart-centered financier’
More than a decade after divorcing her late troubled celebrity pastor husband Zachery Tims in 2009, whose affair with drugs and sex ultimately ended his life two years later, Riva Tims announced Sunday that she has found love again and is now remarried.


























