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 Jamal Bryant plans Memorial Day weekend Target protest to remember George Floyd
In what he calls an expression of “righteous indignation,” Pastor Jamal Bryant announced on Sunday that he and his parishioners will protest for nearly 10 minutes outside a Target store in Conyers, Georgia, to remember George Floyd, who died in police custody in May 2020.
Kentucky gov. remembers 19 killed in tornado as children of God, asks for prayers
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear remembered 19 people killed by a tornado that ripped through the state Friday as children of God and asked for prayers for others injured or displaced by the event.
Josh Buice recants claim that Voddie Baucham's $1.4M heart surgery campaign was ‘deceitful’
Former G3 Ministries president Josh Buice, who was forced to resign after confessing to using multiple social media and email accounts to “publicly and anonymously slander numerous Christian leaders,” says he made an “unsubstantiated” claim that Baptist preacher Voddie Baucham was “deceitful” in a GoFundMe campaign that raised more than $1.4 million for his heart surgery.
Robert Morris asked Gateway Church for millions in retirement pay, court records show
Gateway Church founder Robert Morris, who resigned from the Southlake, Texas, megachurch last June after he was accused of child sex abuse, demanded a million dollars upfront plus hundreds of thousands more annually in retirement compensation shortly after his exit, but the church refused.
Police close case on alleged abuse of Joni Lamb’s granddaughter with no charges against ‘Pete’
Investigators with the Colleyville Police Department in Texas have officially closed an investigation into allegations that a granddaughter of Daystar Television Network's co-founder and President Joni Lamb, was sexually abused by a family member publicly identified as “Pete.” No charges were filed against Pete.
American missionary Josh Sullivan reveals trauma of South African kidnapping
In the six days he spent as a hostage of kidnappers in South Africa in April, Tennessee missionary Josh Sullivan constantly bobbed between waves of fear and faith as he trusted that God would allow him to see his family again.
G3 Ministries board will remove all Josh Buice content, says he targeted conference speakers
The Board of G3 Ministries said that they will be removing all content from their website produced by their former president, Josh Buice, due to the stain of his confession to slandering Christian leaders on their work.
Duluth Vineyard's interim Pastor John Kliewer cleared of allegations of employee misconduct
Approximately one month after he was forced to step back from his role as interim senior pastor of the Vineyard Church in Duluth, Minnesota, following allegations of leadership abuse by Vineyard USA, John Kliewer has been cleared of the claims by an independent investigation.
Pastor claimed members could be absolved of sins by hauling trash, sexually assaulted member: DOJ
A self-styled pastor who allegedly told his congregants they could be absolved of their sins by hauling commercial trash and allegedly sexually assaulted one of his church members has been arrested for sex trafficking, forced labor and conspiring to commit forced labor.
G3 Ministries President Josh Buice resigns after confessing to slandering Christian leaders
Josh Buice, president of G3 Ministries, who also serves as a pastor and elder at Pray's Mill Baptist Church in Douglasville, Georgia, has resigned after confessing to using multiple social media and email accounts to “publicly and anonymously slander numerous Christian leaders.”
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