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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Feds decline all charges, ends probe into Olivet University
Federal authorities have decided not to file criminal charges against Olivet University in Anza, California, in effect dismissing allegations of human trafficking as not credible.
Nearly half of American adults don't believe the Bible is literally true: study
While significant majorities of Evangelicals, black protestants and Americans in the South continue to hold fast to literal belief in Scripture, a new study has found that nearly half of American adults see the Bible as a collection of helpful but “ancient myths” that are “not literally true.”
5 moving Christian reactions to Voddie Baucham’s death and legacy
Hours after the announcement of the death of prominent Southern Baptist preacher Voddie Baucham Jr. on Thursday, there has been an outpouring of condolences and faithful celebration online, marking him as a man of substance who defended the truth of the Gospel and the role of men in society.
Televangelist David Taylor allegedly urged followers to hurt themselves, police
Televangelist David E. Taylor, who was arrested by federal authorities on multiple charges connected to a forced labor and money laundering conspiracy last month, allegedly encouraged his followers to hurt themselves and the police.
Bodycam footage of Pastor Aaron Williams Jr. being charged with sex act in SUV released
Just days after Pastor Aaron Williams Jr. of Maddox Memorial Church of God in Christ in Mansfield, Ohio, pleaded not guilty to engaging in a sex act with a woman who is not his wife, video footage from a police bodycam has been released.
Hope Fellowship’s John McKinzie breaks silence as church consults with police over moral failure
A week after his resignation as lead pastor of the multi-campus Hope Fellowship in North Texas due to “sexual sin and moral” failure.
Ex-Harvest pastor sexually abused, trafficked children in Romania: lawsuit
Three men have filed federal lawsuits claiming they were sexually abused and trafficked by a former Harvest Christian Fellowship pastor, Paul Havsgaard, while living in the now-defunct church-run children’s homes in Romania. The filings also accuse the church's founder, Greg Laurie, and missions pastor Richard Schutte of negligence in failing to prevent the abuse and covering it up for 20 years.
Judge denies motion to dismiss lawsuit accusing Gateway Church, Robert Morris of fraud
U.S. District Judge Amos L. Mazzant has denied a motion to dismiss a class action lawsuit accusing Gateway Church in Southlake, Texas, and its embattled founder, Robert Morris, of misappropriating church funds.
Assemblies of God seek to stop deposition of CEO Doug Clay in Chi Alpha abuse lawsuit
Lawyers for the Assemblies of God, the world’s largest Pentecostal denomination, have asked a Texas District Court Judge to quash a pending deposition of the organization’s General Superintendent and CEO Doug Clay in the ongoing Chi Alpha Campus Ministries lawsuit.
Pastor, wife who sold worthless cryptocurrency to Christians ordered to repay $3.4M
A Denver judge has ordered online pastor Eligio "Eli" Regalado and his wife, Kaitlyn, who sold some $3.2 million in worthless cryptocurrency to their Christian followers, to repay nearly $3.4 million in restitution.
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