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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Dallas megachurch pastor who confessed to sin of pride resigns
Todd Wagner, senior pastor and co-founder of Watermark Community Church in Dallas, Texas, who temporarily stepped down from his pulpit late last summer due to the sin of pride, revealed Sunday that he has resigned from his position in an emotional announcement to congregants.
Menlo Church reveals fired worship director solicited nude photos from teenager
One month after announcing the firing of Mountain View campus worship director Michael Bryce Jr. for “inappropriate behavior online” years ago, Menlo Church in California has confirmed that behavior was the solicitation of nude photos from a teenager.
Tears flow amid biblical cry for justice at Daunte Wright’s funeral
Katie and Aubrey Wright struggled through pain to find words inside the Shiloh Temple in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Thursday to remember the life of their late 20-year-old son Daunte who was shot dead by former Brooklyn Center police officer Kim Potter less than two weeks ago.
Al Sharpton cried then praised God for Derek Chauvin’s conviction for George Floyd’s murder
Surrounded by family, friends and colleagues like The Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. and Pastor Jamal Bryant, longtime civil rights leader, the Rev. Al Sharpton praised God and revealed that he broke down in tears moments after former Minneapolis police offer, Derek Chauvin was found guilty of the murder of George Floyd Tuesday.
Robert Morris urges church to vote in local elections, pray for Christian candidates
Robert Morris, founder of the multi-campus Gateway Church in Texas, which draws some 36,000 worshipers weekly, urged his congregants on Sunday to get active in local government elections and vote to protect their communities while highlighting a raft of members running for office.
'Hope': 10 Christian reactions to Derek Chauvin’s conviction for murder of George Floyd
Some wept. Some cheered. Some stood in silent reverence, absorbing the moment when it was announced that a jury had found former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin guilty of second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter for the death of George Floyd Tuesday.
Black Gateway Seminary board member protests ‘racial insensitivity’ of SBC’s seminary leaders
Terry Turner, the senior pastor at Mesquite Friendship Baptist Church in Mesquite, Texas, says he will not attend his final board meeting at the Southern Baptist Convention’s Gateway Theological Seminary in California to protest the “racial insensitivity” of the denomination’s Council of Seminary Presidents.
Derek Chauvin should be ‘put under the jail’ for death of George Floyd, Pat Robertson says
As the jury in the trial of former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin continued their second day of deliberations on whether to convict him of the murder of George Floyd, if the decision was left up to Christian Broadcasting Network founder Pat Robertson, Chauvin would be “put under the jail.”
Church elders under fire for threatening to expel mom who left husband, started dating woman
A team of elders from the Woodstock Church of Christ in Georgia who threatened to expel one of their members after she divorced her husband and made her new lesbian relationship public are now coming under fire online for trying to live according to their religious beliefs.
Progressive Christian leaders call for abolishing Senate filibuster blocking Biden's agenda
A group of more than 20 progressive religious leaders has joined the Poor People’s Campaign in demanding a repeal of the U.S. Senate filibuster, claiming it subverts democracy by denying the will of the majority.
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