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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  • Georgetown Prof: Neurosurgeon Ben Carson Unlikely to Get GOP Nomination

    Georgetown Prof: Neurosurgeon Ben Carson Unlikely to Get GOP Nomination

    While neurosurgeon Dr. Benjamin Carson's "powerful speech" at the National Prayer Breakfast two weeks ago has social conservatives rooting for him to run for president, he is unlikely to get the nod as the GOP's presidential nominee in 2016 if he decides to run, says Georgetown University professor Clyde Wilcox, who works in the school's Department of Government and is an expert on religion and politics.

  • Megachurch Workers in South Are Best Paid Among Peers

    Megachurch Workers in South Are Best Paid Among Peers

    Employees of megachurches located in the South are the highest paid group of megachurch workers in America, according to the recently released 2012 Large Church Salary Report by the Leadership Network.

  • Who Is Benjamin Carson?

    Who Is Benjamin Carson?

    Well before Dr. Benjamin Carson ever set foot at the podium to face the audience at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington D.C. on Feb. 7, the renowned neurosurgeon was already a brand on his own in the field of medicine.

  • Crystal Cathedral Founder Received 'Love Gift' to Fix Broken Heater, Dishwasher

    Crystal Cathedral Founder Received 'Love Gift' to Fix Broken Heater, Dishwasher

    A recent church newsletter revealed that the Rev. Robert H. Schuller, ex-leader and founder of the Crystal Cathedral Ministries and the world's longest running evangelistic television program in the world, "Hour of Power," depended on a "love gift" from a small church to fix his broken heater and dishwasher in January.

  • PoliSci Prof.: Ben Carson as President 'Doesn't Make Sense'

    PoliSci Prof.: Ben Carson as President 'Doesn't Make Sense'

    While many social conservatives have been giddy with excitement about the prospect of renowned neurosurgeon Dr. Benjamin Carson hitting the campaign trail for a presidential run in 2016, prominent Columbia University political scientist Fredrick Harris thinks it's a long shot.

  • Former Chicago Church-Owned Bank to Shut Down After Losing Millions

    Former Chicago Church-Owned Bank to Shut Down After Losing Millions

    A Chicago bank owned by megachurch pastor Bill Winston and some members of his 20,000-strong Living Word Christian Center was shut down by federal regulators late last Friday after hemorrhaging millions of dollars since its founding in 2008.

  • Report: Megachurches Meeting Big Budget Demands Even in Tough Economy

    Report: Megachurches Meeting Big Budget Demands Even in Tough Economy

    Bigger churches are attracting big donations and have fewer problems meeting their budgets even in tough economic times, according to findings reported in The Economic Outlook of Very Large Churches.

  • Megachurch Pastors Running Churches Like CEOs Unbiblical, Says Former Pastor

    If you're a member of a megachurch, chances are you are a part of something that's more business than ministry, according to former pastor and author Glenn Newman in his latest book, Pastors Move Over: Make Room for the Rest of Us.

  • Romney Would Have Won If Ben Carson Was Running Mate, Says Black Church Group

    Romney Would Have Won If Ben Carson Was Running Mate, Says Black Church Group

    If Mitt Romney had renowned neurosurgeon Dr. Benjamin Carson as his running mate in the 2012 presidential elections, he would have been president today, says National Black Church Initiative (NBCI) President Anthony Evans.

  • Got an Idea to Take Over GOP From Establishment? Conservative Faction Eager to Know

    A great idea on how to wrest control of the GOP from "establishment big government Republicans" and return it to the hands of "limited government, constitutional conservatives," and win the November 2016 elections for the Republican Party, can make you $10,000 richer.

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