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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Pastor Mark Driscoll wants Jesus to return before Election Day as civil war chatter abounds
Hours after former president and presumptive Republican 2024 presidential nominee Donald Trump was convicted Thursday on 34 counts of falsifying business records to cover up a sex scandal that threatened his 2016 presidential campaign, megachurch pastor Mark Driscoll pleaded on social media for Jesus to return before Election Day.
Former Community Bible Church volunteer accused of sex acts with minor
Officials at Community Bible Church in Waterford, California, are cooperating with the Stanislaus County Sheriff's Office in Modesto after David Odom, a former youth group volunteer, was arrested Tuesday on multiple felony charges related to alleged sexual acts with a minor.
Carl Lentz says he’s not back in ministry, reveals new chapter is podcast
Two days after teasing his audience with a “new chapter” that he plans to reveal on June 4, former Hillsong NYC Pastor Carl Lentz said that new chapter doesn't involve returning to the pulpit, but he will be back in the limelight with a new podcast called “Lights On.”
High school student's diploma delayed for telling classmates to find Christ in graduation speech
Five days after his graduation from Campbell County High School in Kentucky, Micah Price finally received his diploma from school officials Wednesday after it was withheld because he went off script in his commencement speech and encouraged his classmates to find God.
Black residents in NC sue to remove monument to ‘faithful slaves’
Calling it unlawful and racially discriminatory government speech that violates the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment of the Constitution, a group of black residents in Tyrrell County, North Carolina, have filed a lawsuit to remove a monument that states, “IN APPRECIATION OF OUR FAITHFUL SLAVES,” near the front door of the county’s courthouse.
SWBTS president expresses ‘deep regret’ over former staffers implicated in federal investigation
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary President David S. Dockery expressed "deep regret" over the actions of two former administrators charged or implicated in the U.S. Department of Justice's investigation of allegations that Southern Baptist Convention leaders intimidated whistleblowers with credible claims of sexual abuse.
Teenager arrested in connection with Memphis pastor’s shooting
A teenager who allegedly drove a getaway car from Zionfield Baptist Church in Memphis, Tennessee, in February after Pastor Clemmie Livingston Jr. was shot in the face by yet-to-be-identified carjackers has been arrested in connection with the shooting.
Carl and Laura Lentz tease ‘new chapter’ in video trailer
Come June 4, former Hillsong NYC pastor Carl Lentz and his wife, Laura, will reveal what they have teased as a “new chapter,” according to a video posted on their social media Tuesday night.
Pastor Jamal Bryant announces engagement to Karri Turner
More than five years after taking the helm of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Lithonia, Georgia, as a single, divorced father, Pastor Jamal Bryant announced on Sunday that he is now engaged to Christian motivational speaker Karri Turner.
Remains of American missionaries killed in Haiti to return home as Trump calls for justice
The remains of American missionaries Davy and Natalie Lloyd, who were shot dead by gangsters in Haiti on Friday, are expected to be flown home as former President Donald Trump offered condolences to the family of Missouri state Rep. Ben Baker, Natalie's father.
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