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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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.
Gateway Church names 4 new interim elders months after removing leaders over Robert Morris scandal
Gateway Church in Southlake, Texas, has added four new interim elders to its leadership team months after purging multiple elders from their ranks who were aware of a past child sex abuse claim against the church’s former leader and founder, Robert Morris, but did not make it known to the congregation.
Nation grieves as victims of American Airlines, Army helicopter crash are identified
An outpouring of grief and support has been spreading across the country for the 67 people killed in Wednesday’s midair collision of American Airlines Flight 5342 and a U.S. Army Black Hawk in Washington D.C., as their identities continued to be revealed by friends and family Friday.
Trump pushes school choice expansion after ‘heartbreaking’ report on student performance
President Donald Trump has directed the U.S. Department of Education and several other federal agencies to look for ways to expand school choice for families to improve student performance as the nation's latest report card shows American students falling behind in reading and stagnating in math,
6 pastors, Christian leaders react to American Airlines crash with Army helicopter that left 67 dead
As America grapples with the nation’s deadliest commercial airline crash since 2001, after a midair collision between an American Airlines jet and an Army helicopter left 67 people dead Wednesday, pastors across the country are now sharing prayers and other words of comfort as profiles of the victims slowly emerge online.
Wichita hosts community prayer as officials give up hope on finding survivors in Potomac River crash
Wichita, Kansas, the city from where an American Airlines jet departed Wednesday, with 64 people on board before crashing midair with a U.S. Army helicopter carrying three soldiers near Reagan National Airport, is set to host a community prayer meeting as officials gave up hope of finding survivors Thursday.
Education experts worry as American children fall further behind in reading, stagnate in math
More than half of fourth graders nationwide have not mastered reading at a proficient level for their grade, and the share of students considered proficient is now 2 percentage points lower than two years earlier, new data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress shows.
14 Pentecostal sect members convicted for death of 8-year-old girl denied lifesaving insulin
The parents of an 8-year-old girl, her adult brother and 11 other members of a small, tongues-talking Pentecostal sect in Toowoomba, Australia, were convicted of manslaughter Wednesday for causing her death by withholding lifesaving insulin needed to treat her Type 1 diabetes because of their religious beliefs.
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