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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  • VeggieTales to Celebrate 20th Anniversary at Atlanta Megachurch

    VeggieTales to Celebrate 20th Anniversary at Atlanta Megachurch

    The popular Christian children's animated series, VeggieTales, will be hosting a family party in honor of their 20 years of teaching valuable life lessons to children from a Christian perspective at the World Changers Church in College Park, Ga., on Saturday Mar. 30, and everyone is invited.

  • Neurosurgeon Ben Carson: I Have No Skeleton to Find

    Neurosurgeon Ben Carson: I Have No Skeleton to Find

    Political mudslingers looking for dirt to discredit famed neurosurgeon Dr. Benjamin Carson after his candid speech criticizing government policies and political correctness at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington D.C. just over a week ago, are probably going to need a miracle finding any major ammunition.

  • Poll: Mississippi Ranked #1 Religious State in US

    Poll: Mississippi Ranked #1 Religious State in US

    Mississippi is America's most religious state while President Barack Obama's home state of Hawaii has taken New York's place among the least religious ones, according to results of a Gallup poll released this week.

  • Unpredictable Russell Westbrook Ranks #1 Most Exciting Active NBA Star

    Unpredictable Russell Westbrook Ranks #1 Most Exciting Active NBA Star

    NBA fans across America think Oklahoma City Thunder's mercurial point guard and Western Conference NBA All-Star reserve Russell Westbrook is the most exciting active professional basketball player on and off the court.

  • Neurosurgeon Ben Carson Inundated With Donations After Politically Incorrect Speech

    Neurosurgeon Ben Carson Inundated With Donations After Politically Incorrect Speech

    After throwing political caution to the wind in his candid speech at the National Prayer Breakfast last Thursday, renowned neurosurgeon Dr. Benjamin Carson of Johns Hopkins Hospital is riding his popularity with high sales of his books and being flooded with donations to his Carson Scholars Fund celebrating "intellectual superstars" in America's schools.

  • Ben Carson to Retire From Surgery; Open for 2016 Election?

    Ben Carson to Retire From Surgery; Open for 2016 Election?

    This June, renowned neurosurgeon Dr. Benjamin Carson will retire from surgery at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Md., where he has served as head of pediatric neurosurgery since he was 33, and possibilities about what he will do next are wide open, he says.

  • Dallas Megachurch of Robert Jeffress to Open $130 Million Campus in March

    Dallas Megachurch of Robert Jeffress to Open $130 Million Campus in March

    Congregants of the First Baptist Church of Dallas will be praising God in a gleaming $130 million facility come Easter Sunday, March 31, when the church opens its new state-of-the-art campus after nearly two years under construction.

  • Abortions Down in Pennsylvania With Nation's First-of-Its-Kind Alternative Program

    Abortions Down in Pennsylvania With Nation's First-of-Its-Kind Alternative Program

    An alternative program in Pennsylvania designed to empower women with unplanned pregnancies to choose life over abortion has resulted in a seven percent dip in the number of resident abortions in the state over the last 17 years.

  • Neurosurgeon Ben Carson Not Sorry for Prayer Breakfast Speech; Would Run for President?

    Neurosurgeon Ben Carson Not Sorry for Prayer Breakfast Speech; Would Run for President?

    Slammed by detractors for going "rogue" in delivering a politically incorrect speech criticizing government policies at the National Prayer Breakfast, attended by President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, last Thursday, renowned neurosurgeon Dr. Benjamin Carson says he won't apologize for speaking the truth. And although it's not his intention, he won't rule out a presidential run, either.

  • Christian Group Fights Pa. School District Over $1,200 Fee to Use Facility

    The Good News Club, a Christian-run group that once met for free at the Foose Elementary School in Harrisburg, Pa. is now fighting the Harrisburg School District in federal court to keep it that way after organizers were told they weren't providing a "community service" so could no longer meet at the school unless they paid an annual fee of $1,200.

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