Leonardo Blair

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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  • Senate Bill Not 'Amnesty,' Say Pro-Immigration Reform Evangelicals

    Senate Bill Not 'Amnesty,' Say Pro-Immigration Reform Evangelicals

    A group of evangelical Christian leaders challenged claims on Wednesday that a recent bill filed by a bipartisan group of senators on immigration reform constitutes amnesty for illegal immigrants.

  • No Agreement Yet on House Immigration Reform Bill

    No Agreement Yet on House Immigration Reform Bill

    Members of an eight-member bipartisan group in the U.S. House of Representatives praised the recently unveiled immigration reform proposal of their counterparts in the Senate on Wednesday and said they expected to release a "reasonable, common-sense plan" of their own in a matter weeks.

  • Scandal Scarred Anthony Weiner Now Second in Race for NYC Mayor

    Scandal Scarred Anthony Weiner Now Second in Race for NYC Mayor

    Two years after a sexting scandal forced him to resign from Congress and toppled him from his frontrunner position in the race for New York City's mayoralty, Democrat Anthony Weiner is now the closest rival to the leading candidate in that race, the city's openly lesbian Council Speaker Christine Quinn.

  • Senate Offers Citizenship, Sweeping Overhaul in Immigration Bill Proposal

    Senate Offers Citizenship, Sweeping Overhaul in Immigration Bill Proposal

    In what is viewed as the most sweeping overhaul in immigration law in at least the last 26 years, a bipartisan group of eight senators unveiled a bill on Tuesday that will map a 13-year pathway to citizenship for almost 11 million undocumented immigrants.

  • Sex Shouldn't Be Better Than Church, Says Professor

    Sex Shouldn't Be Better Than Church, Says Professor

    Although it may not be the case for many Christians today, Dale Kuehne, pastor, political science professor and author of Sex and the iWorld told an intrigued audience at the Q Conference in Los Angeles on Monday that sex should not be better than church.

  • No Suspects Yet, But Speculation on Perpetrators of Boston Marathon Bombings Abound

    No Suspects Yet, But Speculation on Perpetrators of Boston Marathon Bombings Abound

    With no official motive or suspects identified in Monday's double bombing of the Boston Marathon to report, some journalists have resorted to speculating on the motive behind the blast that crippled the annual event on Monday.

  • President, Salvation Army Pledge Support for Boston Bombing Victims

    President, Salvation Army Pledge Support for Boston Bombing Victims

    President Barack Obama, several church leaders and humanitarian organizations such as The Salvation Army and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops have pledged their support for victims of the Boston Marathon bombings which rocked that city on Monday.

  • 'Kony 2012' Jason Russell Announces Follow-Up Project, Fourth Estate

    'Kony 2012' Jason Russell Announces Follow-Up Project, Fourth Estate

    A year after his naked obscenity-filled meltdown in the streets of San Diego, Calif., where he cursed the devil and smacked the pavement, Invisible Children co-founder and creator of the viral video "Kony 2012," Jason Russell, says he is now doing better and promoting his latest project, the Fourth Estate.

  • 'The Bible' Exec Fired From $6M Job for Sexting With Escort

    'The Bible' Exec Fired From $6M Job for Sexting With Escort

    Executive Producer of the History Channel's "The Bible" miniseries Scott Sassa was booted from his $6 million job by conservative heads at media giant Hearst Corporation last month after they got wind of his racy text exchange negotiating a drug-filled $1,000 sexual encounter with a teenage escort last Christmas.

  • 17 Million Adventists Still Praying for the End of the World

    More than 17 million Seventh Day Adventist Christians around the globe are still praying for the end of the world as we know it. And next month, as they celebrate a 150-year-old tradition they hadn't expected to last this long, there are some who are disappointed that Jesus hasn't returned yet.

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