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 fraudulently got $1.5M in PPP loans then splurged on 39 cars including Tesla
Pastor Rudolph Brooks Jr., founder and senior pastor of the Kingdom Tabernacle of Restoration Ministries in Washington, D.C., is now facing up to 20 years in prison after he was arrested for fraudulently obtaining more than $1.5 million from the Paycheck Protection Program, which he then splurged on personal expenses, including 39 cars.
5K attend first indoor services at Rock Church in over 1 year; pastor says it feels like 'Christmas'
More than a year after the COVID-19 pandemic caused the shuttering of the campuses of Rock Church in San Diego, California, Senior Pastor Miles McPherson welcomed back over 5,000 of his congregants indoors for the first time on Sunday, and it felt like “Christmas.”
Beth Moore will face ‘blackness of darkness’ if she doesn’t repent, Susan Heck says
Longtime women’s ministry leader Susan Heck, who leads a ministry called With the Master, denounced popular Bible teacher Beth Moore as a false teacher who will face the “blackness of darkness forever” unless she repents for leading women astray.
Kimberly Potter, officer who fatally shot Daunte Wright, charged with 2nd-degree manslaughter
Kimberly A. Potter, the white Brooklyn Center police officer who resigned after fatally shooting Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old black man who resisted arrest during a traffic stop in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, was formally charged Wednesday with second-degree manslaughter after three days of protests and riots.
Pastor who predicted end to Trump's presidency says God’s going to 'reimburse' black Americans
Despite opposition among some to the idea of reparations for slavery, the Rev. John A. Kilpatrick, a self-styled Assemblies of God prophet in Alabama who predicted the end of Trump's presidency in 2018, also predicted that God is going to “reimburse” black Americans for their trouble and labor.
Grieving pastor, wife call on witnesses to help catch daughter’s killer
A grieving Alabama pastor and his wife called on residents who witnessed the fatal shooting of their daughter in a public Birmingham park on Easter Sunday to come forward and help the police catch her killer.
Churches urge prayer after fatal police shooting of Daunte Wright
As tensions and protests continue to flare in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, over the fatal police shooting of 20-year-old Daunte Wright, local churches are calling for prayers and calm while seeking to help the community process its grief.
Megachurch leader who allegedly made sex videos with minors to face trial in September
Naason Joaquin Garcia, the controversial leader of the 5 million-member Light of the World, who's accused of multiple sex crimes, including making sex videos with minor girls from his flock, will go on trial in Los Angeles on Sept. 27.
Willow Creek pastor says he won’t minister at churches unless they are diverse
Calling it a personal decision he made with his family a long time ago, Willow Creek Community Church North Shore campus Pastor Ed Ollie Jr. says he will only minister at racially diverse churches because that’s how he sees the Church in the Bible.
John Piper’s son Abraham Piper skewers evangelicals as his star rises on TikTok
Abraham Piper, an artist and son of desiringGod.org founder and chancellor of Bethlehem College & Seminary in Minnesota, John Piper, is a rising star on the social network TikTok for his irreverent and quirky videos on a random mix of subjects, including growing up evangelical.
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