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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Chris Reed announces plan to launch new ‘Jesus Revolution Church’ after personal failure
Former MorningStar Ministries leader Chris Reed is getting ready to start a new congregation called Jesus Revolution Church in South Carolina just over a month after resigning from the ministry amid allegations of sexual abuse of minors by a former volunteer and a confession by Reed that he had an inappropriate relationship with an adult ex-student.
Wisconsin pastor fired for allegedly sending himself nude photos of congregant’s wife
Gabriel Mills, a father of five and husband who recently celebrated 20 years of marriage, was recently fired from his job as guest experience pastor at the Kenosha campus of the multisite Journey Church for allegedly sending himself nude photos of a female congregant from her husband’s cell phone.
Biden says ‘heartbreaking’ devastation in North Carolina is ‘bigger than politics’
Days after western North Carolina got hit by historic flooding from Hurricane Helene one government official has described as “biblical,” President Joe Biden said the response to the recovery efforts and search for survivors is “bigger than politics” as he announced additional aid for the state.
Pastor arrested while watering plants can now sue officers and city, judges rule
Michael Jennings, a black pastor who was arrested while watering his neighbor’s plants two years ago, can now sue the officers involved in his arrest along with the city of Childersburg a three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Court of Appeals unanimously ruled Friday.
JD Hall found guilty of embezzlement, ordered to apologize to church and pay restitution
More than two years after he was removed as lead pastor of Fellowship Baptist Church in Sidney, Montana, due to allegations of prescription drug abuse, domestic violence and embezzling money, once popular polemics blogger Jordan Daniel "J.D." Hall has been found guilty of embezzlement and ordered to pay restitution.
Former megachurch Pastor Mike Baker moves growing congregation into new building
Mike Baker, the former pastor of Eastview Christian Church in Bloomington, Illinois, who resigned from the megachurch after his son, Caleb Baker, was fired from his job as a pastor at Central Christian Church due to adultery, will move his growing new congregation into a new building on Sunday.
Pastor’s widower curses killer to life without peace after he pleads guilty to her murder
The widower of the-late United Methodist Church pastor, the Rev. Autura Eason-Williams, cursed the final suspect involved in her killing, Eduard Rodriguez-Tabora, to a life without peace on Monday, after he pleaded to second-degree murder and was slapped with a 20-year prison sentence.
Former Atlanta Hawks forward AJ Griffin quits NBA to follow Jesus
After just two years as a player in the National Basketball Association, former Atlanta Hawks forward, Adrian Griffin Jr., who was traded to the Houston Rockets in June, is calling it quits to follow Jesus full time.
As death toll from Helene tops 100, President Biden offers help and prayers
President Joe Biden offered help and prayers to victims in multiple states impacted by Hurricane Helene, as the death toll stemming from the storm officially topped 100 as people cut off in remote communities remain unaccounted for.
Diocese of Rockville Centre reaches historic $320M settlement with more than 600 abuse survivors
The Diocese of Rockville Centre in Long Island, New York, the largest Catholic Diocese in the U.S. to file for bankruptcy, has agreed to pay more than 600 survivors of sexual abuse a historic $320 million and invest in rigorous child protection protocols in a legal settlement reach Thursday.
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