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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Missing pastor’s wife, woman in custody dispute ‘could be in danger,’ investigator says
Officials at the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation fear a pastor's wife who disappeared with a woman she was accompanying to pick up children on Saturday "could be in danger."
Pastor Greg Locke declares Christianity ‘under attack’ in US after 200 Bibles torched near church
Pastor Greg Locke of Global Vision Bible Church in Mount Juliet, Tennessee, told members of his flock that the setting on fire of around 200 Bibles in a trailer near his church by an unidentified suspect on Easter Sunday is proof that Christianity is "under attack" in the United States.
Pastor shot at church says God told him ‘stop trying to die’ in spirited return to pulpit
In a spirited return to his pulpit just weeks after being shot in the face by carjackers, Pastor Clemmie Livingston Jr., of Zionfield Baptist Church in Memphis, Tennessee, said God told him to “stop trying to die” as he bled in the aftermath of the shooting.
Pacific Coast Pastor Ashley Wilkerson: Bible translators changed Scripture to diminish women leaders
Ashley Wilkerson, senior co-pastor of Pacific Coast Church in Tacoma, Washington, which she leads with her husband JonFulton Wilkerson, has drawn criticism for suggesting that Bible translators altered Scripture to diminish evidence that women served as apostles, deacons and even pastors in the early church.
More US missionaries rescued from Haiti as UN report calls situation ‘cataclysmic’
More U.S. missionaries and other Americans who got stranded in Haiti after criminal gangs overran the country in late February have been rescued after weeks of waiting as a new report from the United Nations described the troubled Caribbean nation’s condition as “cataclysmic.”
TD Jakes’ relationship with Diddy under scrutiny again in wake of raid, lawsuits
The relationship between televangelist and megachurch Pastor T.D. Jakes and music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs has come under renewed public scrutiny following a raid of two of Combs’ homes Monday by federal agents and a recent lawsuit filed by Christian music producer Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones alleging a slew of sex, gun and drug crimes.
Despite discontent about their job, overall health, wellness of pastors better than general public: study
While record levels of pastors have seriously considered quitting and expressed discontent with their jobs in recent years, in general, they are faring better than the general public in health and wellness a new report from the Exploring the Pandemic Impact on Congregations study has found.
Indiana church fires pastor accused of having sex with foster daughter over 100 times
A week after their lead pastor Errol Wright, was accused of having sex with his teenage foster daughter more than 100 times, Community Christian Church in Tell City, Indiana, said he has been fired and they are grieving over the ordeal.
MAG Church disaffiliates from Assemblies of God over Chi Alpha abuse scandal
Former Assemblies of God pastor J.R. Armstrong of MAG Church in Orange, Texas, announced that his congregation recently voted to follow in his footsteps to disaffiliate from the world's largest Pentecostal denomination amid a sexual abuse scandal impacting its Chi Alpha Campus Ministries.
Serial bigamist who posed as pastor had at least 10 wives he met in black churches
A man accused of serial bigamy in Houston, Texas, who posed as a pastor or bishop at small black churches around the country, was sentenced to three years in prison after he was found to have had at least 10 wives whom he married for financial gain.
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