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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To buy a house or find a spouse, most Americans say young adults have it harder than parents: study
For young adults today, more Americans agree that it’s easier for them than their parents’ generation to stay in touch with friends and family, get into college or find a job. But when it comes to saving for the future, paying for college, buying a house or finding a spouse, most Americans say young adults have it a lot harder.
Father fatally shoots 3 daughters, chaperone inside church then kills himself
A father fatally shot his three daughters and their chaperone inside the sanctuary of a California church before killing himself during a supervised visit with them Monday night, police said.
Pastor Greg Locke says he’s being threatened with death, hexes and sex toys for exposing witches
Pastor Greg Locke, who exposed the presence of suspected witches at his church in recent weeks, says he’s being threatened with death, hexes, sex toys and glitter bombs for preaching about deliverance from evil.
Pastor survives after he's stabbed 7 times in 'devastating' random attack outside home
Members of Second Baptist Church in Santa Ana, California, are thanking God for their pastor being alive after he was stabbed seven times in a random attack outside his home that left him with significant injuries, including two punctured lungs
Pastor Robert Morris offers money-back guarantee if congregants tithe for a year and nothing happens
Willow Creek Community Church Senior Pastor David Dummitt has offered his congregants a money-back guarantee if they tithe 10% of their income for a year and nothing happens. He made the offer Sunday after guest preacher Pastor Robert Morris revealed he has been offering the same guarantee to his nearly 40,000-member Gateway Church in Texas, for 22 years without a claim.
Alabama gov. demands answers after high school basketball team forced to forfeit game on sabbath
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has demanded answers from the Alabama High School Athletic Association after the boys' basketball team of Oakwood Adventist Academy was forced to forfeit a semifinal game in the state tournament that impinged on their observance of sabbath.
Black Americans more certain than any other racial group that they’re going to Heaven: study
An increasing number of Christians say faith in God is not required to go to Heaven, and Christianity is not the only way to get there. Now, a new study has revealed that a majority of Americans need to be certain they’ll make it to Heaven, and African Americans are more certain than any other racial group that they “will be with God in Heaven” in the afterlife.
SBC leaders apologize for mishandling Jennifer Lyell's sex abuse case
After initially refusing to apologize, the Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee expressed regret for its response to the sexual abuse of Jennifer Lyell, which the SBC’s once highest-paid female executive suffered at the hands of a former Southern Baptist Theological Seminary professor.
Hundreds of Catholic baptisms may be invalidated in Michigan over incorrect 'formula'
Nearly two years before thousands of Catholics, learned earlier this month that their baptisms were invalidated because their priest in Phoenix Arizona used an incorrect baptism formula, hundreds of Catholics baptized at the St. Anastasia Roman Catholic Church in Michigan learned their baptisms were invalidated because of another errant priest too.
SBC must deal with 'stains' of racism, sex abuse to regain ‘moral credibility,' Ed Litton says
Southern Baptist Convention President Ed Litton called racism and sexual abuse the “most outstanding” stains on the denomination on Monday, adding that the convention must take steps to cleanse itself.
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