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 John Kliewer leaves Duluth Vineyard, wife claims church’s defamation gave husband PTSD
John Kliewer, the whistleblowing former interim senior pastor of the Vineyard Church in Duluth, Minnesota, who was falsely accused of leadership abuse as he tried to hold church officials accountable in the wake of a sex abuse scandal, has formally cut ties with the church.
Pastor’s mistress LaToshia Daniels is found guilty of second-degree murder
LaToshia Daniels, the former social worker mistress of the late Pastor Brodes Perry of Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church in Memphis, Tennessee was spared having to spend the rest of her life in prison or even sentenced to death last Friday after a jury found her not guilty of first degree murder.
More Americans are now reading the Bible but fewer believe it’s 100% accurate: study
With Millennials and Generation Z leading the way, particularly among men, Bible reading among U.S. adults in 2025 is at its highest level in the last 15 years, according to new data from the "State of the Church" initiative.
Mistress apologizes for pastor’s murder, claims she only wanted to kill herself
LaToshia Daniels, the woman on trial for the 2019 murder of Brodes Perry, who served as associate pastor at Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church in Memphis, Tennessee, says she never wanted to hurt him.
Pastor who sold $3.2M in worthless cryptocurrency to Christians served time for auto theft
Online Pastor Eligio "Eli" Regalado, who was recently ordered to repay nearly $3.4 million in restitution for selling some $3.2 million in worthless cryptocurrency to his Christian followers, previously served time in prison for auto theft, according to court records.
Woman on trial for pastor's murder claims he seduced her during counseling session
LaToshia Daniels, a woman on trial for the 2019 murder of Brodes Perry, who served as associate pastor at Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church, claims he seduced her during a counseling session at a previous church and was in an open marriage.
Rocky Goodwin, 87-year-old pastor of Calvary Baptist Church, found not guilty of child porn charges
Rocky Goodwin, a former missionary, founder Evangelistic International Ministries and pastor of Calvary Baptist Church in Warren, Arkansas, who was hit with several child pornography charges last year, has been found not guilty.
Trinity Christian College announces closure amid financial distress
After 66 years of operation, Trinity Christian College, a private liberal arts Christian college sitting on more than 100 acres of land 20 miles southwest of Chicago in Palos Heights, Illinois, have announced they will cease operating at the end of the 2025-2026 academic year due to financial problems.
Prosecutors seek death penalty for man who crucified pastor
Prosecutors in the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office in Arizona plan to seek the death penalty for Adam Christopher Sheafe, the man who confessed to the crucifixion-style murder of New River Bible Chapel Pastor William Schonemann in his home earlier this year.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney dead at 84
After years of battling heart disease, former Vice President Dick Cheney has died from complications of pneumonia, cardiac and vascular disease his family has announced. He was 84.
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