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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Prominent 82-year-old Pastor Douglas Jones to face judge for sex crime
Douglas P. Jones, the longtime senior pastor of Welcome Missionary Baptist Church in Pontiac, Michigan, is expected to be arraigned before a Circuit Court Judge next Thursday, May 29, on a fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct charge.
Summit Church’s religious discrimination lawsuit assigned to magistrate court
Pre-trial proceedings for a religious discrimination lawsuit filed by former Southern Baptist Convention President J.D. Greear's The Summit Church in North Carolina against the Chatham County Board of Commissioners have been moved to magistrate court.
Britain considers mandatory chemical castration for pedophiles, but not rapists
In a bid to lower overcrowding in prisons, the British government is considering whether to make chemical castration mandatory for certain sex offenders serving time in their correctional system.
Judge tells ex-megachurch volunteer to ‘repent’ for sexually abusing teenager
Sixth Judicial Circuit Court Judge LaTonya Honorable urged former middle school teacher and Immanuel Baptist Church praise team member Reagan Danielle Gray to “repent” Monday after she pleaded no-contest to second-degree sexual assault of a minor member of the Southern Baptist megachurch.
Megachurch backs male students being investigated for complaining about female in locker room
A local megachurch is rallying behind three male students at Stone Bridge High School in Ashburn, Virginia, who are being investigated for sexual harassment after complaining about a female student who identifies as a boy in the boys' locker room.
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.
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