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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Bishop Lamor Whitehead explodes after jewelry heist is compared to Tyler Perry movie
Bishop Lamor Whitehead defended himself and his church from jokes and criticism after hundreds of thousands of dollars in jewelry were stolen by gunmen during a worship service Sunday.
Gunmen rob pastor, congregants of over $1M in jewelry during service, leaving them ‘traumatized’
Bishop Lamor Whitehead says his family and congregation were left “traumatized” Sunday after masked gunmen entered their Brooklyn church and stripped them of more than $1 million worth of jewelry.
House of Prayer schools allegedly bilked over $7 million from veterans for Bible study classes
A nonprofit organization called the House of Prayer, a chain of schools that students branded as a cult, has been accused of recruiting veterans and active service members and then bilking them out of more than $7 million in GI Bill benefits and disability checks to pay for Bible classes that were not accredited.
Pastor, youth advocate shot dead in driveway; 15-year-old charged with her murder
A 15-year-old boy has been charged with murder after Rev. Autura Eason-Williams, the pastor of Capleville United Methodist Church in Tennessee, was gunned down during what police believe was a carjacking in the driveway of her Whitehaven home on Monday evening. She was 52.
Pastor John Gray praises God as he leaves hospital after health scare
Relentless Church Pastor John Gray praised God, his wife, his congregation and others who prayed for his recovery after being released from a Georgia hospital Tuesday where he was treated for a life-threatening pulmonary embolism.
TD Jakes says society breaking down because 'we are raising up women to be men’
Megachurch Pastor T.D. Jakes suggested in a recent sermon that families are being lost in contemporary culture because “we are raising up women to be men” while subverting their femininity.
John Gray experiencing 'miraculous' recovery after suffering life-threatening embolism: wife
More than a week after he was hospitalized with a life-threatening pulmonary embolism, Relentless Church Pastor John Gray is now slowly on the mend, according to his wife, Aventer Gray, and she’s calling it a “miracle.”
Stress reaches ‘all-time high’ among world’s workers as 60% detach emotionally: report
Stress among the world’s workers reached an all-time high in 2021, with 60% reporting they felt emotionally detached from their jobs while many others reported not feeling hopeful about the future, according to the State of the Global Workplace: 2022 Report from global analytics and advice firm Gallup.
JD Hall’s former church says he embezzled money, physically assaulted wife and son
An elder with Fellowship Baptist Church in Sidney, Montana, said Friday that former pastor, Jordan Daniel "J.D." Hall, a polemics blogger known for criticizing Christian leaders, embezzled thousands from the church and was kicked out of his home for being physically abusive.
Rick Warren’s Saddleback successor Andy Wood is ‘cleared’ of abuse allegations
Just over a month after a preliminary investigation cleared Pastor Andy Wood of allegations of leadership abuse during his time at Echo.Church, elders at Saddleback Church say that Rick Warren’s named successor has been completely “cleared” by two separate investigations.
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