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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  • Congresswoman Waters Mocked for Claiming Sequester Will Cost 170 Million Jobs

    Congresswoman Waters Mocked for Claiming Sequester Will Cost 170 Million Jobs

    Rep. Maxine Waters of California was roundly mocked and even became a trending topic on Twitter on Thursday after a video of her claiming erroneously that the automatic budget sequester, which becomes effective tonight, will cost America 170 million jobs.

  • Bob Woodward: White House Threatened Me Over Sequester Comment

    Bob Woodward: White House Threatened Me Over Sequester Comment

    Veteran Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward said he was threatened by a high ranking White House official in an attempt to stop him from writing a story charging President Barack Obama of having "moved the goal posts" in talks around the sequester deal.

  • GOP Accuses Obama of Deliberate Moves to Make Sequester Worse

    GOP Accuses Obama of Deliberate Moves to Make Sequester Worse

    Republicans and experts are claiming that the Obama administration is taking unnecessary steps to reduce U.S. Middle East security, disrupt air travel and release criminally detained immigrants to exacerbate the effect of the March 1 budget sequester.

  • Former Pastor Goes on 40-Day Fast for $12,200 to Finish Film

    Former Pastor Goes on 40-Day Fast for $12,200 to Finish Film

    Eric "Doc" Benson is hoping America won't let him go without food for 40 days, but he is willing to do it if necessary to raise funds to complete a movie highlighting the struggle many small and mid-sized churches are having with change in America today.

  • Benjamin Carson to Speak at 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference

    Benjamin Carson to Speak at 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference

    New conservative darling, neurosurgeon Dr. Benjamin Carson, will be a featured speaker at the 40th annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) next month, according to the American Conservative Union (ACU).

  • Romney Strategist Says GOP Should Change Stance on Gay Marriage, Contraceptives

    Mitt Romney's lead campaign strategist in the 2012 presidential election called on the Republican Party in a recent op-ed to shift its policy positions on issues like gay marriage and contraceptives in order to attract younger voters.

  • Christian Science Teacher Fired Over Creationism to Head to Ohio Supreme Court

    A 20-year Ohio middle school science teacher who was fired in 2011 for teaching creationism in his class will have his day in the Ohio Supreme Court on Wednesday when his lawyers will argue that his firing was a violation of his First and Fourteenth Amendment rights to free speech and religion.

  • Indiana's Largest Megachurch Faces New Foreclosure Proceedings

    Indiana's Largest Megachurch Faces New Foreclosure Proceedings

    Indiana's largest megachurch, and America's 15th biggest congregation, the Family Christian Center, is now facing a new foreclosure case for a bank debt of more than $600,000.

  • Polls Showing Increasing Support for Gay Marriage Accused of Being 'Skewed'

    Polls Showing Increasing Support for Gay Marriage Accused of Being 'Skewed'

    Results of two polls recently published by the Washington Post suggesting that Americans are increasingly in favor of same-sex marriage and opposed to the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) have come under criticism from the Pennsylvania Pastors' Network, which contends that the results "are likely skewed" in favor of the gay rights advocacy groups that commissioned them.

  • NJ Pastor Convicted of Attempted Murder; Stabbed Mistress 28 Times

    NJ Pastor Convicted of Attempted Murder; Stabbed Mistress 28 Times

    A New Jersey pastor who was charged with stabbing his mistress, who was also the associate pastor at the church, 28 times then left her for dead at her hairdresser's house when she tried to end their longstanding adulterous affair, was convicted of attempted murder after a week-and-a-half-long trial last Friday and now faces up to 20 years in prison for his crimes.

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