Leonardo Blair
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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SBC Exec. Committee expels church after pastor defends blackface impression of Ray Charles
Five months after Pastor Sherman Jaquess of Matoaka Baptist Church in Ochelata, Oklahoma, defended his decisions to wear blackface mimicking legendary singer Ray Charles and dress like Native American figure Pocahontas, the Southern Baptist Convention's Executive Committee has expelled his church from the nation's largest Protestant denomination.
Family of 4 found murdered with 3 dogs in home they ‘just bought’; police say they were targeted
A family of four found gunned down with their three dogs inside their home, which a family member said they had “just bought” in Romeoville, Illinois, was a targeted attack, the Romeoville Police Department said.
Temple University Acting President JoAnne A. Epps dies after collapsing at memorial service
Temple University Acting President JoAnne A. Epps died Tuesday after collapsing during a memorial service on the campus of the public research university in Philadelphia, the university announced. She was 72.
Pastor sues for $1.5M after he's defrocked for infidelity he confessed to colleague
Anthony Stephens, a married former pastor of Our Savior Lutheran Church in Croton-on-Hudson who is also a licensed mental health counselor and attorney, has filed a lawsuit against the Metropolitan New York Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America after he was defrocked following what he argues is a protected confession of infidelity to a colleague minister.
Divided church in Alaskan city with bitter winters nixes cold weather shelter for the homeless
After opening their doors for two years to help a growing population of homeless people find emergency shelter during dangerously cold periods of the year, the small congregation of Resurrection Lutheran Church in Alaska’s capital, Juneau, voted not once but twice against using their property to help keep the homeless warm.
Pastor charged with attempted murder of wife and kids lost triplets in 2008
On the 15th anniversary of their wedding on Aug. 9, 2018, former Crossroads Christian Church Children’s Pastor Matthew Lee Richards thanked God for his wife, Stephanie, and the five children they share together.
Children’s pastor charged with attempting to murder wife and 4 of his children
A Kansas pastor who allegedly tried and failed to murder his wife and four of their five children and then attempted to burn their house to the ground with their bodies inside has been charged with multiple counts of attempted murder.
5 reasons Coco Gauff’s US Open win is a triumph for faith and family values
When 19-year-old tennis sensation Coco Gauff delivered a comeback win over new world No. 1 women’s tennis player, Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus 2-6, 6-3, 6-2, in the 2023 U.S. Open women’s final on Sept. 9, she also delivered a big win for Christian faith and family values on the national stage.
Excessive scrolling on TikTok, apps can lead to sleep problems but Americans are addicted: study
Even though health experts have long warned that the practice can cause insomnia, nearly 40% of Americans admit to scrolling through apps like TikTok before bedtime, and more than half say they do it to help themselves wind down, a new survey shows.
Criticism of slave memorial at Southern Seminary illustrates complexities surrounding issues of racial reconciliation
A commemorative plaque placed in the lobby of the Broadus Chapel at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary that the school’s president, Al Mohler, says is meant to serve as a “prominent” acknowledgment of the contributions enslaved people made in building the Louisville, Kentucky, institution is being challenged as a disappointing celebration by two outspoken black Southern Baptist ministers.