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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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.
School staffer dies after troubled student kicks her in the chest
Amy Morrell, a beloved staff member at the Meadowridge Academy in Swansea, Massachusetts, has died after she was kicked in the chest by a 14-year-old student she was trying to restrain authorities say.
Christian woman shot dead during robbery on her way home from church
Family and friends of Jewel Harden, a beloved member of the Crown Kingdom Cultural Center in North Augusta, South Carolina, are reeling in grief after she was shot dead during a robbery on her way home from church on Sunday.
Gateway Church, Robert Morris seek to dismiss Cindy Clemishire’s defamation lawsuit
Gateway Church in Southlake, Texas, and its embattled founder, Robert Morris, are seeking to dismiss a defamation lawsuit filed by Cindy Clemishire earlier this summer, just weeks after Morris pleaded guilty to sexually abusing her beginning when she was 12 in the 1980s.
Ex-youth minister Lindsey Whiteside’s home detention for child sex abuse divides Mississippi town
The prosecution of former Mississippi youth minister Lindsey Whiteside, who is accused of sexually abusing a minor under her care, continues to divide her community as United States Attorney Clay Joyner filed an emergency motion to review and revoke a federal judge's order to release her from custody pending trial.
Pastor Jamal Bryant suspends giving campaign for members, citing government shutdown
Citing the impact of the ongoing federal government shutdown on the economy and his members, megachurch Pastor Jamal Bryant has suspended his church’s Exceedingly Giving Campaign until the first Sunday after the shutdown ends.
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