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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Hillsong Church pauses Dallas campus after completing investigation of former pastors
Former Hillsong Dallas Lead Pastor Reed Bogard and his wife, Jess, were under investigation for leadership failures when they abruptly resigned in January, Hillsong Church Global Senior Pastor Brian Houston said Saturday while announcing a pause in the operation of the Texas campus.
SBC officer criticizes pastor for praising wife’s preaching
Rod D. Martin, founder and CEO of The Martin Organization and an officer of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee has come under fire for criticizing Arizona pastor, Josh King, for praising his wife’s ministry online.
In ‘Billy Graham: The Man I Knew,’ Greg Laurie paints a human portrait of famed evangelist
Though he was embraced as a saint by many who loved him, Billy Graham was still a man who was “no stranger to mischief or sin” in his youth and “dated and kissed several girls” while showing “uncommon restraint” to avoid compromising his Christian standards, says bestselling author and Pastor Greg Laurie.
After guiding students through Falwell sex scandal, Liberty U campus pastor resigns
David Nasser, Liberty University’s campus pastor and senior vice president of the school’s spiritual development office, who helped steer students through the “shameful” sex scandal involving the institution’s former president, Jerry Falwell Jr., will resign at the end of the semester.
Megachurch Pastor Greg Laurie still can’t smell after recovering from COVID-19
Five months after making headlines when he tested positive for COVID-19 last October, California megachurch Pastor Greg Laurie says he still hasn't regained his sense of smell.
Voddie Baucham had quadruple bypass heart surgery, now faces ‘long recovery’
Southern Baptist preacher Voddie Baucham Jr. underwent a complicated quadruple bypass heart surgery Monday, typically reserved for patients with severe heart disease, and now has a “long road of recovery ahead.”
Pastor’s daughter shot dead, several others injured on Easter Sunday
Radio personality Rickey Smiley and Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin are among the leading voices condemning the fatal shooting of the beloved daughter of a local pastor and wounding of several others, including four children, Sunday night.
Depressed Texas teen who killed family then himself was raised in religious family, friend says
Farhan Towhid, a chronically depressed 19-year-old Texan who formed a murder-suicide pact with his older brother and killed their parents, sister and grandmother over the weekend, was raised in a religious Muslim family but acted against his faith, according to Hasmat Mobin, president of the Bangladesh Association of North Texas.
How she fought back after assault by Hillsong Church administrator
It’s 7 a.m. on a recent Friday and Anna Crenshaw is “feeling alright” in Sydney, Australia. Months after her arrival in the Land Down Under to attend Hillsong College in 2016, though, this pastor’s daughter from Pennsylvania was left in shock after a Hillsong Church worship leader assaulted her.
John Gray secures Atlanta area location for new Relentless Church campus
Relentless Church leader John Gray and his wife, Aventer, have settled on a location for their new Atlanta area campus, the couple revealed in an announcement Sunday.
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