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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Evangelicals divided on how churches, leaders should engage on public policy issues
While there has been a longstanding debate over how involved churches and their leaders should be when it comes to public policy issues, a majority of Evangelicals only agree on two issues they think churches and their leaders should be very involved with — abortion and what is acceptable in public expressions of faith.
Woman recorded shooting pastor will not face death penalty
A woman recorded on video fatally shooting a Nevada pastor in front of his family during a longstanding HOA dispute in December will not face the death penalty if she is convicted of murder.
NY lawmaker pushes to decriminalize adultery
Slamming a New York State Penal Law that makes adultery a class B misdemeanor as “archaic,” Democratic State Assemblymember Charles D. Lavine introduced a new bill Monday to decriminalize a sin that was punishable by death in the Old Testament of the Bible.
Pastor shot in mouth during carjacking speaks, is grateful to be alive
Nearly three weeks after he was shot in the mouth by carjackers as he was getting ready for a service at his church in Memphis, Tennessee, Pastor Clemmie Livingston Jr. is on the mend.
Chick-fil-A distances itself from franchise owner charged with sex crimes
Chick-fil-A is distancing itself from one of its independent franchise owners accused of sexually abusing a 15-year-old girl he met online.
Church member arrested for murder of 3 Coptic monks in South Africa
A member of the Egyptian Coptic Orthodox Church in South Africa, who was also a monk in training, has been arrested for the murder of three beloved and longtime monks at a monastery in Cullinan near Pretoria on Tuesday.
American missionaries trapped in Haiti seek prayers and help
As a fight for power continues to unfold in Haiti after the Caribbean nation’s Prime Minister Ariel Henry announced he would resign Monday amid escalating violence, an American missionary and several of her adopted children trapped there are pleading for prayers and help as they wait to be evacuated.
Bishop could face life in prison after he is accused of setting fire to historic church that was synagogue
A Kentucky pastor accused of setting fire to a historic building that once housed his church which was built as a synagogue to serve the largest Jewish congregation in Kentucky in the 1920s, could spend the rest of his life in prison if convicted of the crime.
Lamor Whitehead, ‘Bling Bishop’ of Brooklyn convicted of fraud, insists ‘story isn’t over’
After his conviction on fraud and attempted extortion charges in New York City, Bishop Lamor Whitehead of Leaders of Tomorrow International Ministries in Brooklyn insisted that the “story isn’t over” and he will be vindicated.
Fewer pastors now want to quit but younger leaders still challenged: Barna
Fewer pastors are now reporting dissatisfaction with their job or doubt in their calling, but that rebound isn’t as noticeable among younger or female pastors, according to a new report from Barna.
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