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 under fire for booting male member who dressed like a woman for church service
Pastor Antonio Rocquemore of Power House International Ministries in Chicago, Illinois, is coming under fire from advocates of the LGBTQ community for publicly rebuking a male member who came to his church dressed as a woman on Sunday night.
Hundreds remember Christian newlyweds killed in helicopter crash at memorial service
An estimated 2,000 people showed up at the Belleville United Methodist Church in Texas last Friday to pay final respects to a newlywed Christian couple who died shortly after their wedding less than a week earlier.
Christian UC-Berkeley Student Senator Refuses to Resign Over Belief Gender Is Not a Choice
Isabella Chow, a conservative University of California-Berkeley student senator who is facing calls to resign because she believes gender is assigned at birth and is not an individual's choice, says she plans to stand up for the values of the Christians who elected her.
Many Pastors See Bump in 2018 Giving but Black Pastors More Likely to Report Decline, Study Says
While some 42 percent of pastors in general are reporting a bump in giving to their churches over 2017, an equal amount of African American pastors say giving has gone down for them over the same period, a new survey from Lifeway Research says.
Why Black Church Leaders Often Get Away With Sexual Misconduct, and the Woman Breaking the Silence
New York City model, Andrea Garrison wants to use her voice as a wrecking ball against the culture of silence that has enabled rogue pastors like Bishop Victor Couzens to sexually exploit women in the black church without penalty. She is also pushing to mobilize other women who have also been mistreated to speak up and force churches to renounce wayward leaders.
'I Hope to God Nobody Sends Me Anymore Prayers,' Says Mom Whose Son Is Killed After Surviving Vegas Shooting
Susan Orfanos, the mother of 27-year-old Telemachus Orfanos who was killed in Wednesday's mass shooting in Thousand Oaks, California, after surviving last year's shooting in Las Vegas, said in a recent interview that she wants no more thoughts and prayers.
Utah Lawmakers Urged to Remove 'Clergy Exemption' From Reporting Child Abuse
The Truth and Transparency Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to decreasing abuse and corruption in religious and faith-based organizations through increased transparency, has called on Utah legislators to remove the state's clergy exemption from mandatory reporting laws.
69-Y-O Asks Court to Declare Him 49, Cites Transgender Ideology, American Thinking, Trump, Tinder
Claiming age is as fluid as gender, Emile Ratelband, a 69-year-old Dutch pensioner who feels like he's in his 40s has asked a court in his hometown of Arnhem, southeast of Amsterdam, to allow him to change his birth certificate to show that he is as young as he feels.
Creflo Dollar: Make Withdrawals From God's 'Heavenly' Bank Account With $19/Month Bible Study
Televangelist Creflo Dollar, founder and senior pastor of the nearly 30,000-member World Changers Church International, is now offering a $19 per month online Bible study that he says will help people make withdrawals from God's metaphorical bank account.
Texas Pastor Meets $2.3M Fundraising Goal to Help Liberia Get Clean Water After Huge Donation
A Texas pastor who began living on a barge on Lake Ray Hubbard in Dallas nearly a month ago and pledged to keep living there until he raised $2.29 million to help provide clean drinking water for all of Liberia by 2020 is now home after meeting his goal in a surprising moment on Monday.
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