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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Evangelicals Split Over Obama's Executive Action on Immigration
Prominent leaders of the Evangelical Immigration Table took dueling positions on the controversial executive order President Barack Obama announced Thursday that will allow millions of undocumented workers to acquire work permits and temporarily protect them from deportation.
Christian University Stands by Decision to Keep Bill Cosby as Speaker at Benefit Dinner, Despite Outcry From Sexual Assault Victims Group
Officials at a West Tennessee Christian University sparked a fiery debate over Christian values Wednesday for standing by their decision to invite embattled comedian Bill Cosby to serve as keynote speaker for the school's benefit dinner scheduled for next month, despite outcry from an advocacy group for victims of sexual assault.
Long Hollow Baptist Church Senior Pastor David Landrith Dies After Battle With Cancer; Community Grieves
After battling an aggressive cancer for more than a year, David Landrith, senior pastor of Long Hollow Baptist Church in Henderson, Tennessee died Tuesday. He was 51.
Bodies of Myles Munroe, Wife and Crash Victims Returned Home; Family, Friends Get Ready for Burial
The bodies of renowned evangelical pastor and motivational speaker, Myles Munroe, his wife, Ruth, and three of seven other persons who died with them in a fiery jet crash in Freeport, Bahamas, two Sundays ago were returned home to family and friends in the island's capital of New Providence Monday in preparation for multiple memorials in upcoming weeks.
Biblical Abraham Is Placed on Mock Trial in New York City for Attempting to Murder Isaac; and the Verdict Is …
With a jury of more than 1,300 Jews who claim Abraham as their father watching, two of New York City's most prominent Jewish attorneys went head-to-head in a mock trial of the biblical patriarch for the attempted murder of his son, Isaac, on Sunday, and the verdict at the end of the intellectual dust-up was unsurprising.
'Ruffneck Pastor' Dave Burrows Takes Reigns of Myles Munroe's Bahamas Faith Ministries; Vows to Continue Munroe's Vision
Locals affectionately call him "The Ruffneck Pastor" but Bahamian preacher Dave Burrows, who was recently named to take over as leader of the Bahamas Faith Ministries formerly led by prominent evangelical pastor Myles Munroe, knows he has some big shoes to fill.
'God Had Nothing to Do With This,' Says Christian Worship Leader Chris Picco Who Lost Wife and Son Just Days Apart
In an emotional speech delivered at the funeral of his wife, Ashley, and young son, Lennon James, at the Loma Linda University Church in California on Saturday, Christian worship leader Chris Picco declared: "God had nothing to do with this," as he mourned his tragic loss and prepared to keep on living.
Myles Munroe's Children Weep as Thousands Show Up for First Sunday Service Since Crash; Church Recalls Last Sermon
Although prominent evangelical pastor Myles Munroe told the world that he had prepared his children to live without him should he die, his daughter, Charissa, and son, Myles Munroe Jr., couldn't hold back their tears as they faced his former congregation for the first Sunday since his untimely death with their mother, Ruth, and seven others in a fiery jet crash two Sundays ago.
Christian Man Loses Wife After Son's Birth; Newborn Then Dies Days After Father Sings Touching Version of Beatle's 'Blackbird'
Chris Picco, a Christian worship leader whose wife and newborn son died just days apart, brought new meaning to the popular 1968 Beatles hit song "Blackbird" after a recording of him singing the song to his young son shortly before he died went viral on the Internet.
Myles Munroe Talked About Dying Accidentally, and of Legacy in Ominous Message to Leaders Shortly Before Fatal Jet Crash
In what is being described as a message he delivered shortly before he and eight others were killed in a fiery jet crash Sunday, prominent evangelical preacher and motivational speaker Myles Munroe spoke ominously of dying by accident and being "unnecessary" to his ministry.
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