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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John-Paul Miller sexually assaulted 14-year-old, told her she would be ‘raped by demons': 2nd lawsuit
A second alleged victim who says she was sexually assaulted by Pastor John-Paul Miller of Solid Rock at Market Common in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, when she was just 14 in the late 1990s, said the embattled pastor and his father Reginald Wayne Miller told her she would be "raped by demons" for reading Harry Potter books.
Teen shot multiple times at Christian school survived because of faith and doctors, family says
Nearly three months after their son was left critically injured during a shooting at Abundant Life Christian School in Wisconsin, Christina and Brett Clardy say their son, River, is alive today thanks to hardworking doctors and their faith in God.
Target sees drop in sales; Pastor Jamal Bryant reports 110K people in 40-day boycott
Megachurch Pastor Jamal Bryant and a reported 110,000 people kicked off a campaign Wednesday to boycott retail giant Target for 40 days over their decision to scale back diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.
After repentance, Pastor Matthew Queen sentenced for lying to federal investigators
Despite facing a maximum penalty of up to five years in prison for lying to federal investigators looking into a case of alleged sexual abuse, former pastor Matthew Queen received six months of house arrest after repenting for his crime.
Dentist sues Koinonia Christian Church Pastor Ronnie Goines for alleged sexual assaults
Pastor Ronnie Goines and his Koinonia Christian Church in Arlington, Texas, have been slapped with a lawsuit seeking more than $1 million in damages by a dentist and former member who alleges she was sexually assaulted twice by the divorced pastor six months after she joined the church.
Pastor sentenced to probation after pleading guilty to stealing $500K from church
A former Assemblies of God pastor who pleaded guilty to stealing more than $500,000 from Harrison Faith Church in Arkansas has been sentenced to 17 years of probation, 800 hours of community service and ordered to pay $100,000 of restitution to the church for his crimes.
Steve Riggle's Grace Church pays $2 million to settle lawsuit for teen abused in sleep
Months after agreeing to pay former member and intern Tyler Bates $2 million to settle a lawsuit in which he alleges he was sexually abused as a teenager by a staff member while he slept, Grace Church, one of the biggest churches in Houston, Texas, founded by Steve Riggle has finally paid up after months of delay.
Middle school teacher facing charges of possessing 1,000 images, videos of child porn, including rape of toddler
A man who worked as a math teacher at a public middle school in Manhattan has been arrested and charged with two counts of possession of child porn.
Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir's new album ‘I Will Not Be Moved’ is an anointed masterpiece
From the first song — the title track “I Will Not Be Moved” featuring Brad Hudson — until the last one, “No Other Name,” Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir has delivered an anointed masterpiece in praise and worship music with their latest album.
Former youth pastor claims TD Jakes tried to kiss him too
Another man who says he worked as T.D. Jakes’ youth pastor in the 1990s has accused the megachurch leader of trying to kiss him too, a week after Jakes formally denied allegations he sexually assaulted former pastor Duane Youngblood when he was a teenager or his older brother, Pastor Richard Edwin Youngblood.
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