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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Family, friends still searching months after Tennessee pastor goes missing without a trace
The family of DeRossett Church of Christ Pastor Roy Whited, who went missing without a trace on May 3, have hired a private investigator to help them find answers as authorities have been unable to locate his whereabouts in the last four months.
Lake Country Church pastor wrongfully fired for looking at inappropriate images, attorney says
Scott Crenshaw, the senior pastor of Lake Country Church in Fort Worth, Texas, claims he was wrongfully fired for looking at "inappropriate images" and intends to seek a public apology and reinstatement to his job, says his attorney Mark Lane.
Megachurch leader weeps after worship pastor caught recording inside gender-neutral bathroom
Tony Johnson, lead pastor of the multi-campus 2|42 Community Church in Michigan, said he and his staff wept for days after learning that their former worship pastor had violated their trust by setting up a hidden camera inside a “unisex” bathroom at one of their seven campuses.
MorningStar Ministries defends itself after ex-volunteer accused of sexual abuse
Officials at Rick Joyner’s MorningStar Ministries in South Carolina suggested they shouldn't be blamed for the sexual abuse former volunteer and ex-police officer Erickson Douglas Lee committed against multiple young boys who participated in one of its youth programs, as two more alleged victims filed lawsuits against the ministry.
Judge dismisses sexual battery case against pastor, father of 11 who fatally shot himself
A Tennessee judge has dismissed a charge of aggravated sexual battery of a child younger than 12 against pastor, grandfather and father of 11 David Baker Sr. after he fatally shot himself at a local hospital.
5 things to know about Sean Combs, ‘Freak Offs’ and the charges that could send him to prison for life
Music mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs, who once allegedly boasted about leveraging his relationship with megachurch pastor T.D. Jakes to repair his public image, could face life imprisonment after being charged with racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution connected to his infamous "Freak Off" parties.
Megachurch founder IV Hilliard says ‘I love my wife’ after she reveals bruised head
Megachurch Pastor I.V. Hilliard, who co-founded New Light Church in Houston, Texas, urged his congregation Sunday not to trust the "tabloid, online stuff" and declared that "I love my wife" after she shared "disturbing posts" online, including a photo of a hematoma she says was caused by bumping her head on a shower door.
5 things to know about Ryan Wesley Routh, suspect in 2nd Trump assassination attempt
Some two months after he survived an assassination attempt on his life at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, authorities have arrested a man identified as Ryan Wesley Routh in connection with what the FBI described as another apparent “attempted assassination” on the life of former President and Republican presidential nominee, Donald Trump.
Abyssinian Baptist Church will install Kevin Johnson as new senior pastor this month
Three months after announcing that the Rev. Kevin R. Johnson was selected as its new senior pastor, Abyssinian Baptist Church, the renowned black Baptist congregation founded in New York City more than 200 years ago, will officially install him this month.
Televangelist Apollo Quiboloy pleads ‘not guilty’ as more alleged victims come forward
Televangelist and Kingdom of Jesus Christ leader Apollo Quiboloy who surrendered to authorities Sunday after a contentious two-week standoff with Philippines Police over his arrest has pleaded not guilty to human trafficking and the sexual abuse of children as more alleged victims have come forward.
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