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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Parents mourn pastor son shot dead after ministering to gunmen
Pastor Rodney Booth wants the killers of his 25-year-old son, Pastor Robert Booth of Hood Holiness Church of God in North Carolina, to know that they “took a great man away from" the world.
Whistleblower challenges SBC leaders’ response to Russell Moore letters
Days after Southern Baptist Convention leaders Mike Stone and Ronnie Floyd challenged claims by the former leader of the denomination’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, Russell Moore, that they mishandled a “crisis of sexual abuse” in the convention, a Texas pastor has come forward with evidence that he claims supports Moore’s claims.
Jury imposes $500K verdict on pastor accused of rape after he refused to apologize to victim
Pastor Lewis Clemons of Kingdom Awareness Ministries International in Columbus, Georgia, could have settled a civil case against him for zero dollars if he agreed to acknowledge and record a public apology for allegedly sexually abusing and raping his former congregant, Lequita Jackson. He refused and went to trial.
Jerry Falwell Jr. unhappy with Liberty University’s ‘public shaming,’ wants lawsuit dismissed
Disgraced former president and chancellor of Liberty University, Jerry Falwell Jr., wants leaders of the evangelical institution founded by his father to stop trying to ruin his reputation and publicly shaming him after resigning in the wake of an explosive sex scandal last summer.
Charles Stanley says websites claiming he’s now selling CBD oil are scams
Iconic Southern Baptist Pastor Charles F. Stanley, who led the 13,000-member First Baptist Church Atlanta in Georgia for more than 40 years before retiring last September, wants the world to know that he has not started a CBD oil business, and any claims that he has can be dismissed as a “scam.”
SBC leaders mishandled ‘crisis of sexual abuse,’ Russell Moore claims in second leaked letter
Southern Baptist Convention leaders mishandled a “crisis of sexual abuse” in the denomination through methods such as intimidating whistleblowers into silence and exonerating churches with credible allegations of negligence of sexual abuse victims, according to Russell Moore, the former leader of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission.
Pastor accused of touching at least 21 girls sues megachurch for defamation in $3.1M lawsuit
Wayne Aarum, a pastor and operator of the Circle C Ranch Christian camp in Delevan who has been accused of inappropriately touching at least 21 teenage girls in the past is now suing The Chapel megachurch for manufacturing the allegations against him to gain control of the camp’s land.
Disabled grandmother says she survived hours-long sexual assault by praying to God
A 58-year-old disabled grandmother allegedly sexually assaulted for hours by a 28-year-old intruder inside her California home says she prayed to God for strength to survive. Now, family and friends are seeking help so she can move.
SBC reports increased giving after Russell Moore’s exit but resignation played no role
Two days after Russell Moore’s official exit as president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, which he announced in May, the denomination is reporting strong year-over-year increases in designated giving as well as giving to its Cooperative Program for May.
East Texas pastor finally gets high school diploma at 99
It took him a while to achieve his dream but Dr. Jack Hetzel, a 99-year-old World War II veteran who leads the First United Methodist Church in Big Sandy, Texas, is beaming with joy after recently achieving his dream of getting a high school diploma.
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