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 Greg Locke blames ‘haters’ after YouTube shuts him out of platform
Tennessee pastor and social media influencer Greg Locke lost some of that influence online Tuesday when YouTube removed his personal account from the platform weeks after shutting down his church’s account, and he blames his “haters” for complaining.
Pastor rebuked for preaching in skinny jeans that make him look like he’s ‘trying to be sexy’
The founder of the multi-campus Embrace church in South Dakota, Pastor Adam Weber, says he won’t stop preaching in his skinny jeans despite being recently rebuked by a Christian for wearing the “offensive” pants that make him look like he’s “trying on purpose to be sexy” at his pulpit.
Nondenominational churches surpass Southern Baptists in adherents: report
In the last 10 years, the number of American Christian adherents in nondenominational churches nearly doubled in number and surpassed America's largest Protestant denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention, by several million adherents, the 2020 U.S. Religion Census shows.
Family of 10-year-old boy accused of groping counselor demands apology; pastor defends him as loving
The family of a 10-year-old Florida boy who was suspended after a counselor at Holly Hill School in Volusia County reported to police that he inappropriately cupped one of her breasts during a hug is now demanding an apology from the school, the clearing of the boy’s record and that the counselor be fired.
Former Faith Baptist Church pastor faces up to 20 years in prison after child porn arrest
David Lloyd Walther, a pastor who led the Faith Baptist Church in Round Rock, Texas, for 18 years, could now face up to 20 years in prison after he was arrested for knowingly searching for, downloading, distributing and possessing child pornography the Department of Justice has announced.
Miles McPherson says fmr. church volunteer charged with murder of daughter, 11, passed multiple background checks
Leticia McCormack, a one-time elder and former volunteer at Rock Church in San Diego, who was charged with the murder of her 11-year-old adopted daughter, Arabella, months after her husband died by suicide, had passed several background checks that revealed nothing to suggest her life was on track toward tragedy, said the church’s Senior Pastor Miles McPherson.
Jeff Bezos pledges to give away most of his $123B fortune in his lifetime
After years of being among the world’s billionaires and the only one among the top five not to publicly pledge to give away more than half of his wealth in his lifetime or his will, Amazon founder and the world’s fourth richest person, Jeff Bezos, said he plans on giving away the majority of his $123 billion fortune while he’s alive.
‘Evil piece of flesh demon:’ Woman sentenced to death for killing pregnant friend to steal unborn baby
Taylor Rene Parker, a 29-year-old mother who can no longer have children due to a hysterectomy, was sentenced to death by a jury in New Boston, Texas, Wednesday for the 2020 murder of her heavily pregnant friend, Reagan Simmons-Hancock, 21, whose child she attempted to pass off as her own after harvesting the infant from her friend’s womb with a scalpel during the attack.
Suspect arrested in torching of 2 black churches in what Democrat claims was tactic to suppress votes
Investigators at the Jackson Police Department have arrested 23-year-old Devin McLaurin on suspicion of starting seven fires across Jackson, Mississippi, Tuesday, including two at historically black churches one of which was completely destroyed.
Church elder killed in pit bull attack is mourned by church, family, friends
Members of the First Baptist Church of South Richmond are grieving the loss of longtime member and elder Evangeline Brooks, who was mauled to death by a pit bull as she walked toward her sister's mailbox in Virginia Monday. She was 88.
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