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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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.
Missouri pastor who called autism a ‘demon’ resigns from school board after backlash
A Missouri pastor who recently told his congregation that autism is a demon that can be cast out by Christians and pointed to many examples of this recorded online, has resigned as a member of the board of the Stoutland School District after backlash over his comments.
Christians protest plans to censure Spokane mayor for appearance at Sean Feucht prayer event
Several Christian residents in Spokane, Washington, protested plans by the city council Monday to censure or formally rebuke Spokane Mayor Nadine Woodward for attending a worship event hosted by conservative activist missionary Sean Feucht and receiving prayer from former state legislator-turned-pastor, Matt Shea last month.
Paula White claims she helped Mandela abolish apartheid, but foundation has no record of work
Former President Donald Trump’s spiritual advisor, televangelist Paula White-Cain, recently claimed she helped Nelson Mandela abolish apartheid in South Africa, but his foundation says they have no evidence she engaged in such work with the iconic world leader who died in December 2013.
Most Americans say Confederate memorials should be left in public; blacks disagree: study
Despite ongoing racial reconciliation efforts in some churches and society in general, a yawning divide still endures between black and white Americans over how Confederate memorials should be treated, a new study from the Public Religion Research Institute finds.
Florida now accepting Christian-backed CLT as alternative to SAT and ACT at public universities
The Classic Learning Test, an exam that is said to be more rooted in Western classical and Christian traditions and is currently used in undergraduate admissions at more than 200 mostly Christian colleges across the country, can now be used as an alternative to SAT and ACT, for admission to all universities in the State University System of Florida, the system’s Board of Governors announced Friday.
Uncommitted Christians causing ‘catastrophic decline in biblical worldview in America’: Barna
Millions of uncommitted Christians are causing a "catastrophic decline in biblical worldview in America" because they have been poorly discipled in their faith and often don't know how to pass on biblical values to their children, research in a new book from veteran Christian researcher George Barna shows.
5 Christian reactions to Coco Gauff’s prayer after winning 1st Grand Slam title at US Open
Many Christians who saw Coco Gauff’s prayer after winning the U.S. Open and know how vocal she has been about her faith responded when ESPN’s flagship program noted in a post on X that she had merely taken a moment to “soak it all in" after winning her first Grand Slam title.
Whistleblower alleges Boy Scouts of America blocked child protection measure due to fear of Mormons
The former youth protection director at the Boy Scouts of America says the embattled youth organization blocked his efforts to institute child protection measures due to fear of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Married pastor accused of robbing 5 women, sexually assaulting 2
The wife of a longtime Illinois preacher reeled in shocked Wednesday as she learned that her husband of 11 years has been accused of robbing five women and sexually assaulting two of them.