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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Mom of 6-year-old who shot teacher will plead guilty to federal charges
Deja Taylor, the 25-year-old mother whose 6-year-old son shot his first-grade teacher in the chest at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, Virginia, in January, will plead guilty to making a false statement that she was not an unlawful drug user when she purchased the firearm used in the attack on the teacher.
Minister with outsized influence in Assemblies of God’s Chi Alpha ministry arrested for abusing boys
Daniel Savala, a 67-year-old itinerant minister and a convicted sex offender with outsized influence in the Chi Alpha Campus Ministries sponsored by the Assemblies of God, was arrested last Friday on charges that he sexually abused two boys in Waco, Texas.
Ex Dave Ramsey followers sue him for more than $150M over endorsement of failed timeshare exit company
Evangelical financial advisor and CEO Dave Ramsey is being sued by a group of his former followers for more than $150 million for allegedly deceiving thousands of listeners of his nationally syndicated radio show and podcast to invest millions of dollars into a failed timeshare exit company.
Married youth pastor, former Compassion International volunteer recorded woman as she showered: police
Daniel Kellan Mayfield, a married youth pastor at First Baptist Gowensville in Landrum, South Carolina, who states on LinkedIn that he's also an event coordinator for global Christian humanitarian aid agency Compassion International, has been fired from his role at the church after admitting to secretly recording a woman, who is not his wife, from her bathroom window as she showered.
Pastor, son arrested for turning church into drug house
A North Carolina pastor and his son were arrested Sunday for allegedly turning their church that had been shuttered since the COVID-19 pandemic into a drug house that manufactured marijuana with the intent to traffic the drug.
Most Christians believe churches should provide counseling and care, but most pastors disagree: study
While more than half of Christians and nearly 50% of the general population believe churches should be offering care and counseling to their communities, most pastors disagree, according to recent research from the Barna Group.
Church associate arrested in shooting death of pastor's wife, councilwoman
Nearly four months after Eunice Dwumfour, a pastor’s wife and Republican New Jersey councilwoman was gunned down in her car just outside her townhome in Sayreville, authorities announced that they have arrested and charged a 28-year-old Virginia man with her murder.
Chick-fil-A accused of going ‘woke’ over addition of diversity and inclusion agenda
Chick-fil-A, the leading fast-food chain that has shuttered its stores each Sunday to allow employees "to rest and worship if they choose" since 1946 and became a household name because of it, is now coming under fire over the company’s diversity, equity and inclusion agenda and Erick McReynolds, the black company executive driving it.
11-month-old dies after parents left her in hot car to attend church: police
Police in Palm Bay, Florida, are still investigating the death of an 11-month-old girl who died after she was left alone in a hot car for three hours as her parents attended a worship service at the Mount of Olives Evangelical Baptist Church, a small Southern Baptist congregation that is a member of the Florida Baptist Convention.
Christian journalist Julie Roys wants megachurch founder James MacDonald to ‘stop hurting people’
Harvest Bible Chapel founder James MacDonald has hurt a lot of people, says Christian investigative journalist Julie Roys, and she wants him to stop.
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