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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Most American teens ‘very motivated’ to know about Jesus: Barna
Although religious affiliation and church attendance are currently on the decline, more than half of American teenagers say they are “very motivated” to know more about Jesus.
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For the first time in the last decade, most Democrats and Republicans agree that the cost of living is one of the most important issues facing American families today, according to the results of the recently released American Family Survey.
Saddleback Pastor Andy Wood apologizes for controversial post on Trump's inauguration
Saddleback Church Lead Pastor Andy Wood apologized to his congregants and staff for causing "confusion," weeks after he shut down the comments section of his Instagram post about the inauguration of President Donald Trump on Jan. 20, which made some of his followers ask if he had gone "MAGA."
IHOPKC’s Mike Bickle allegedly made abuse victim read Psalm 51 after sexual encounters: report
International House of Prayer Kansas City’s disgraced founder Mike Bickle used predatory tactics and spiritual manipulation to sexually abuse at least 17 females, including minors, according to the findings of an independent investigative report.
Lucy Pat Curl, wife of First Baptist Orlando pastor, dies after beating in home invasion
Lucy Pat Curl, the 85-year-old wife of First Baptist Church Orlando’s longtime pastoral care minister Bill Curl, who was hospitalized after she was brutally beaten during a home invasion last Friday, has died.
Steven Nelson, convicted of killing pastor inside church, to be executed after failed appeals
Some 13 years after he was sentenced to death for the grisly murder of Texas Rev. Clint Dobson inside his church in 2011, Steven Nelson maintains his innocence and said the late pastor's church rejected his efforts to contact Dobson's family days before he is scheduled to die by lethal injection Wednesday.
Church prays for miracle after wife of First Baptist Orlando pastor attacked, left in coma
Congregants at the 14,000-member First Baptist Church Orlando are praying for a miracle for Lucy Pat Curl, the 85-year-old wife of their longtime pastoral care minister Bill Curl, after she was brutally attacked inside her home while her husband was at work.
Bethel Church addresses allegations Shawn Bolz used social media to generate ‘prophecies’
After years of online allegations that Christian minister Shawn Bolz was fabricating prophecies and words of knowledge in his ministry, leaders at Bethel Church in Redding, California, where he was frequently platformed, revealed that they confronted him about the allegations more than five years ago and distanced themselves from him when he didn't provide a satisfactory response.
Pastor Jamal Bryant pushes boycott of Target over DEI rollback he calls ‘a spit in the face of black people’
Calling Target’s decision to scale back its diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives “a spit in the face of black people,” megachurch Pastor Jamal Bryant is pushing a 40-day boycott of the retail giant starting at the beginning of Lent on March 5.
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