
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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Nicki Minaj declares faith as SBA names her as judge in Million Dollar Pitch Competition
Outspoken rapper-turned-religious-freedom advocate Nicki Minaj continued the public reaffirmation of her Christian faith, sharing Scripture and declaring that she wants to “see my Jesus someday” in a recent nod to the gospel song "I've Got My Mind Made Up."

Registered sex offender remains pastor of St. Louis Church as denomination stops elevation
A planned elevation of Timothy D. Price, III, the senior pastor of First Baptist Church City of St. Louis in Missouri, to the role of Missouri State Overseer in the Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship has been scuttled by International Presiding Bishop Joseph Warren Walker, III, after outcry over his status as a registered sex offender.

Missionary claims his group was kicked out of Burning Man after sharing Jesus with hundreds, accused of violating rules
John Calvin Hinerman, a Navy veteran who describes himself as a “front-lines revivalist” and member of Philip Renner Ministries, claims he and his Christian group were kicked out of the temporary Burning Man community in Nevada after sharing about Jesus with hundreds. Organizers say the evangelists broke privacy rules.

Majority of pastors worried about AI misinterpreting Scripture: Barna
Nearly all pastors, along with a majority of practicing Christians and U.S. adults in general, say they are concerned about artificial intelligence misinterpreting Scripture, but they are divided on the best response to the problem, according to new research from Barna.

Huntsville Hospital ICU nurses help patient get baptized a week before death
Creative thinking from three nurses at the medical intensive care unit at Huntsville Hospital in Alabama helped a terminally ill patient fulfill her wish to get baptized earlier this summer just a week before she died.

Pastor speaks out after Haitian student, Pierre Damas Bel, takes life after losing TPS status
An Ohio has blamed U.S. immigration policy for the death of Haitian Wright State University student Pierre Damas Bel, after he took his own life Monday after the loss of his Temporary Protected Status, which allowed him to live and work in the country.

Al Sharpton vows to keep advocating for Nolan Wells’ family despite defamation lawsuit threat
Lawyers for civil rights leader and National Action Network founder, the Rev. Al Sharpton, have rejected a threatened defamation lawsuit from attorneys representing three friends of 18-year-old Nolan Wells, who was found dead near Horn Island off the Mississippi Gulf Coast on July 6 after traveling there by boat with a group of friends on July 4.

Trump names Pastor Darrell Scott as tobacco health adviser at CDC
President Donald Trump has named his longtime friend and ally Pastor Darrell Scott as a tobacco health adviser at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), even though he has no recorded experience in public health or tobacco control policy.

In 'redemptive story,' SLO City Church moves into former Arise Vineyard building
In what Lead Pastor Brent Bramer describes as a “redemptive story,” SLO City Church is expected to host its grand opening at the former Arise Vineyard Church campus at 1775 Calle Joaquin in San Luis Obispo, California, on Sept. 13, just months after it was shuttered following the resignation of two pastors.

InterVarsity sues after SUNY Broome opposes club’s Christian leadership requirement
InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, a major evangelical, interdenominational campus ministry operating on hundreds of college and university campuses across America, has filed a lawsuit against SUNY Broome Community College for insisting that the group allow non-Christian leaders to be recognized as an official club on campus.


























