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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Robert Morris wants Christian arbitration to settle pay dispute with Gateway Church
Gateway Church founder Robert Morris has insisted on resolving a bitter pay dispute with the Texas megachurch through Christian arbitration, following a district judge's order to reach an agreement on an arbitrator within 30 days.
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A Long Island man who authorities say made at least seven homemade bombs and threw at least one of them onto the subway tracks of the Williamsburg Bridge after expressing antisemitic comments and frustration about immigration in New York City was indicted on Tuesday.
Father shot twice in the face during Kentucky church shooting ‘devastated’ wife did not survive
A father of five who was sedated in the hospital after he was shot in the face twice by a gunman at Richmond Road Baptist Church in Lexington, Kentucky, recently learned his wife did not survive the attack as he regained consciousness at a local hospital.
Pastor William Ladd speaks out on black Baptist denomination accepting Target donation
A Tennessee pastor is criticizing the National Baptist Convention USA for accepting a $75,000 donation from retail giant Target amid Jamal Bryant's ongoing boycott of the company for scaling back of diversity, equity and inclusion policies.
Brady Boyd, wife launch new ministry after New Life asked him to resign
Soon after elders at New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado, urged their then-senior pastor, Brady Boyd, to resign in June, he and his wife, Pam, launched a new ministry in his home based on Psalm 68.
Pastor, wife who claim God told them to sell cryptocurrency indicted on fraud charges
A Denver pastor and his wife, who claim God told them to sell cryptocurrency, have been indicted on fraud charges.
New York pastor seeks to quell teen violence by offering Nike sneakers for guns
Pastor Charles Muller of Victory Church in Albany has been trying to get teenagers across the city to surrender illegal guns for more than a decade. And this year, he’s offering cash cards and Nike sneakers in exchange for their cooperation.
Bishop Charles Ellis, pastor once accused of touching Ariana Grande, admits to affair with ex-member
Bishop Charles H. Ellis III, the longtime senior pastor of the nearly 6,000-member Greater Grace Temple in Detroit, Michigan, has admitted to engaging in an “inappropriate relationship” with a former member.
Members praise God in tents after fire destroys historic black church in South Carolina
Despite a massive fire destroying their more than century-old church building on Saturday, members of the Pleasant Grove Baptist Church in Darlington County, South Carolina, gathered for worship in tents at the site of their church to give God glory on Sunday morning.
Family delays telling hospitalized pastor his wife is dead after Richmond Road Baptist Church shooting
A few hours after his wife and one of her daughter’s were buried in a joint funeral a week after they were shot at his church, Jerry Gumm, Pastor of Richmond Road Baptist Church in Lexington, Kentucky, was still recuperating from his injuries at a local hospital.
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