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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Prosecutors want Derek Chauvin sentenced to 30 years in prison for George Floyd’s murder
Citing aggravating factors including committing the crime in the presence of children, prosecutors have asked a judge to sentence former Minneapolis police officer, Derek Chauvin, to 30 years in prison for the murder of George Floyd.
Critical race theory sparks flurry of resolutions for annual SBC meeting, Denny Burk reveals
In what is shaping up to be a historic annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention in Nashville, Tennessee, this month, the denomination’s Resolution 9 acknowledging critical race theory as a useful tool to explain how race has and continues to function in society is the target of multiple resolutions seeking to strip it of its power.
Community mourns after pastor, 10-year-old daughter are killed in crash
Friends and relatives of beloved Kansas Pastor Phillip Hett, 39, are now grappling with grief after he was killed along with his 10-year-old daughter, Abigail, in a crash on Sunday. The pastor’s 13-year-old daughter, Jillian, who was traveling with them at the time of the accident, survived.
Ex-nanny of former Hillsong NYC pastor Carl Lentz accuses him of sexual abuse
Months after being fired last November from his role as lead pastor at New York City's Hillsong Church over “leadership issues” and cheating on his wife, Carl Lentz has been accused of bullying and sexual abuse by one of his former nannies who is now a co-pastor at Hillsong Boston.
This year’s Southern Baptist convention could be historic, Ronnie Floyd says
The 2021 annual gathering of the Southern Baptist Convention set to take place in Nashville, Tennessee, next month could be its largest one since 1995 if all of the more than 12,500 pre-registered messengers show up, according to Ronnie Floyd, president and CEO of the denomination’s Executive Committee.
Paula White’s ex-husband says 'slanderous' Facebook post accusing her of affairs made by hacker
A post on the Facebook account of Without Walls International Church leader Randy White accusing his televangelist ex-wife, Paula White-Cain, of having multiple affairs with married men during their marriage was an “unfortunate” and “slanderous” post resulting from a hack, his church said.
Televangelist Jim Bakker blames his 1989 imprisonment for fraud on ‘cancel culture’
Televangelist Jim Bakker isn’t happy with cancel culture and believes his imprisonment for fraud in 1989 aided by “a group of preachers” but mostly the media at the height of his ministry's success was an early example of cancel culture.
As memberships fall, more Protestant churches shuttering than opening: study
With fewer than 50% of Americans holding formal memberships in churches in 80 years, more Protestant churches are closing than opening nationwide, and further decline appears "inevitable," new data show.
Women controlling husbands with sex, other means is destructive, Transformed Wife warns
Lori Alexander, a veteran Christian wife also known through her blog as The Transformed Wife, is warning married women that their desire to control their husbands through a matriarchal spirit using sex, an insistence on being right, always “having the last word” and others means could lead to the destruction of their marriage.
SBC presidential hopeful Mike Stone wants denomination to fully reject critical race theory
Two years after the Southern Baptist Convention acknowledged in Resolution 9 that critical race theory can be a useful analytical tool to explain how race has and continues to function in society, Mike Stone, pastor of Emmanuel Baptist Church in Blackshear, Georgia, is proposing a new resolution asking the denomination to condemn the theory.
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