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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Former President Jimmy Carter's Church Flooded With Calls After Announcing He'll Be Teaching Sunday School Despite Brain Cancer
If all goes well and he is able, former President Jimmy Carter will be teaching his Sunday school class at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Georgia, this Sunday and several Sundays more over the next three months while he's being treated for brain cancer.
New Trailer for Controversial 'So You Think You Can Preach' Competition Makes Waves Online as Interest Grows (WATCH)
A trailer for the controversial new reality show "So You Think You Can Preach," where hundreds of lay preachers are already clamoring for the opportunity to become "the next T.D. Jakes, Creflo Dollar, Benny Hinn, Kenneth Copeland, Eddie Long, Joel Osteen, or Joyce Meyer," is now making waves online with some critics dismissing it as "mockery," a "joke," "wickedness," or "vile vine."
'Disgusting and Sickening Criminal' Passion for Truth Pastor Jim Staley Sentenced to 7 Years for $3.3 Million Scam
Some elderly victims and their relatives lashed out at Passion for Truth Ministries Pastor Jim Stanley, 40, in a St. Louis, Missouri, court Wednesday, calling him words like "sick, manipulative and deceitful" as he was sentenced to seven years in federal prison and pay $3.3 million in restitution to the investors he defrauded in an investment scam.
Caught on Camera: Cops Handle Surprise Baby Delivery After Stopping Couple Speeding to Hospital
A group of Seattle Police Department officers who stopped a driver speeding to the hospital with his pregnant partner in labor with their fourth child, were forced to help the mother deliver the baby as they waited for an ambulance to arrive and it was all caught on camera.
Pastor Sues Megachurch for $12M After Leaders Allegedly Booted Him and Reneged on Promise to Care for Him
A former megachurch pastor who served for 50 years at the Fountain of Life Assemblies of God Church in Florence, New Jersey is now suing for $12 million after the church allegedly expelled him from the pulpit then reneged on a promise to take care of him for the rest of his life.
Pastor Caught in $30M Insider Trading Ring Says 'I Know in My Heart I am Clean Before the Lord'
A Pennsylvania pastor who was arrested last Tuesday for his alleged involvement in what the FBI has called the largest known computer hacking and securities fraud scheme — that yielded some $30 million in illegal profits — told his congregation Sunday that he was innocent, and that "I know in my heart I am clean before the Lord."
'If You Ever Leave a Legacy for Your Children, Let It be That You've Taught Them Friendship With God,' Says Kathie Lee Gifford
In a moving tribute to her late husband, NFL legend and former television personality Frank Gifford who died two Sundays ago, "Today" show host Kathie Lee Gifford said her husband who "asked Jesus into his heart" as a young child, saw his relationship with God as the most important thing in life, and shared his legacy of faith with his children.
Comedian John Oliver Lampoons Televangelists on 'Last Week Tonight' Show; Opens Our Lady of Perpetual Exemption Church
From Creflo Dollar to Kenneth Copeland, late night comedian John Oliver delivered a brutal takedown Sunday of a group of televangelists and related churches known for preaching "the prosperity gospel" on his HBO program "Last Week Tonight" that has now gone viral.
Pastor Leading Iraq's Only Christian Radio Station 'Not Touched' After Bomb Explodes in Garage Where He Went to Fix Church Bus
A pastor leading Iraq's only Christian radio station that reaches up to 8 million people in and around Baghdad with the Gospel, narrowly escaped death after a bomb exploded in a garage where he had gone to get his church bus fixed.
Donations, Condolences Pour in as Churches Ready to Bury Pastor's Three Daughters and Friend Killed in Crash
As they prepare for heartbreaking funerals on Saturday and Sunday, thousands of dollars in donations and a flood of support have been pouring in for the families of a Florida pastor's three daughters and their male friend who died in a horrific accident on their way home from a convention last Sunday.
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