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 thanks God for ‘blessing’ after suspect in son's murder is arrested
Darrell Boyce, a Texas pastor and anti-violence activist, openly praised God for "such a blessing" Friday after law enforcement officials announced the arrest of a suspect in the March 31 murder of his 19-year-old son in a parking lot.
Black church calls police after ‘suspicious’ white man visits during service
On high alert after multiple mass shootings in recent weeks, officials at Fellowship Bible Baptist Church, a predominantly black congregation in Warner Robins, Georgia, called police after a “suspicious” white man visited during a service last week.
Guidepost Solutions’ LGBT pride tweet sparks uproar in SBC
Guidepost Solutions, the investigative firm that recently produced a report on how the Southern Baptist Convention’s leadership mishandled sexual abuse allegations, is coming under fire from high-profile leaders in the denomination over a tweet supporting LGBT pride.
Americans prefer churches with names that are nondenominational: study
In continuation of a cultural shift researchers have previously documented as a growing rejection of organized religion, a new study from Lifeway Research shows Americans are least likely to dismiss churches branded as nondenominational.
Ex-SBC president suspended by First Baptist Church Woodstock after sexual assault allegation
Former Southern Baptist Convention President Johnny Hunt has been formally suspended as pastor emeritus at First Baptist Church Woodstock in Georgia after an investigation deemed credible allegations that he sexually assaulted a younger pastor's wife several years ago.
Leader of Mexico’s largest evangelical church gets 17 years for child sex abuse
Naasón Joaquín García, the leader of Mexico’s largest evangelical church, was sentenced to nearly 17 years in prison Wednesday for sexually assaulting three minor girls from his flock.
How the digital revolution is disrupting the Church and forcing it out of buildings
As online Christian engagement continues to expand rapidly through the use of digital technologies, it has coincided with a staggering disruption in physical church membership which some technology experts say will continue to displace physical churches that refuse to adapt to the digital revolution.
Waitress gets $777 tip after prayer then donates it to her church
A New Orleans waitress who received a $777 tip from a customer shortly after praying to God to help her church repair their broken air conditioning system has donated the entire amount to her congregation.
Pastor calls murder-suicide at Cornerstone Church ‘worst day of a lot of our lives’
Speaking to his congregation on Sunday, the lead pastor of Cornerstone Church in Ames, Iowa, couldn't find the words to describe the heartbreak his church has experienced after two college students were shot dead in the church’s parking lot last Thursday by a gunman who took his own life.
Celebration Church sues to evict Stovall and Kerri Weems from million dollar waterfront home
The 12,000-member Celebration Church in Jacksonville, Florida, continued its legal sparring with founding Pastor Stovall Weems and his wife, Kerri, in a new lawsuit earlier this month demanding that the couple vacate a million dollar waterfront home owned by the church after Weems completely resigned from all work with the church in April.
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