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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Co-owner of the WNBA’s Atlanta Dream, Sen. Kelly Loeffler R-Ga., slammed her Democratic rival Rev. Raphael Warnock who leads the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta for not rejecting the Black Lives Matter movement which she says in part is seeking the “removal of Jesus from churches.”
Kanye West says God told him to run for president in 2020, wants Trump, Biden to step aside
Floating Michelle Tidball, an obscure preacher from Cody, Wyoming, as his running mate, popular rapper and music producer Kanye West says God has told him to run for president in 2020 and urged incumbent Donald Trump and his Democratic rival Joe Biden to “gracefully bow out” of the race.
Fla. megachurch denies hosting 'COVID-19 parties' after teen dies: 'Absolutely false'
First Assembly of God, a megachurch in Fort Myers, Florida, has denied reports that they hosted a huge party, attended by a 17-year-old girl who later died from COVID-19, where no social distancing was practiced or masks worn.
Cornerstone Church Atlanta votes to leave SBC: ‘We should've done it sooner,’ black pastor says
Pastor John Onwuchekwa, lead pastor of the diverse but predominantly black, Cornerstone Church Atlanta announced Friday that his congregation has voted to leave the Southern Baptist Convention.
Popular Mo. Christian camp shutters site after dozens test positive for COVID-19
Kanakuk Kamps, a popular network of Christian sports camps in southern Missouri which has welcomed more than 450,000 campers since 1926, was forced to shutter one of its multiple sites Friday after some 49 campers and counselors tested positive for COVID-19.
Black man found hanging from tree was pastor’s adopted son; probe ongoing
As activists demand a full investigation into the death of a white New Jersey pastor’s adopted black son found hanging from a tree and question possible murder motives, authorities say they are still investigating after the medical examiner ruled the death a suicide.
Pastor Jentezen Franklin urges Christians to vote their faith after Calif. bans singing in church
Megachurch pastor Jentezen Franklin cried “discrimination” and urged Christians to vote their faith in November as the California Department of Public Health issued updated guidelines Wednesday, forbidding churches from singing during services to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Herman Cain hospitalized with COVID-19 after attending Trump rally, team seeks prayers
Former Republican presidential candidate and businessman Herman Cain, 74, has been hospitalized with COVID-19, his team announced Thursday, just over a week after attending a rally for President Donald Trump in Tulsa.
Mass. city recognizes domestic partnerships with 3 or more consenting adults
Somerville, a liberal city in Massachusetts, became perhaps the first city in the United States to recognize domestic partnerships involving three or more people after Mayor Joe Curtatone signed an ordinance into law providing sweeping latitude to redefine family.
Priest suspended for calling Black Lives Matter, Antifa protesters ‘maggots and parasites’
The Rev. Theodore Rothrock, the embattled pastor of the St. Elizabeth Seton Catholic Church in Carmel, Indiana, has been suspended after apologizing Wednesday for calling Black Lives Matter and Antifa demonstrators “maggots and parasites” in a recent weekly message.
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