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 reveals grandson accused of killing wife, 4 kids struggled with mental illness
Three days after his grandson allegedly murdered his wife and four children in their home on Thursday night, Allan Kendrick, lead pastor of Oasis of Praise Church in Bessemer, Alabama, revealed how his family had been struggling to get help with his mental illness from multiple government agencies, including with Medicaid, to pay for his care.
Former Gateway Church pastor believes there was a cover-up of Robert Morris’ child sex abuse
Stephen LeBlanc, a former Gateway Church pastor in Texas who has known the church’s founder Robert Morris since the 1980s, says he was shocked to learn about recent allegations that Morris sexually abused Cindy Clemishire over multiple years in the 1980s beginning when she was 12.
200-year-old church destroyed by fire after lightning strike
The state Fire Marshal in Zebulon, Georgia, is now investigating a fire after the historic Zebulon United Methodist Church was destroyed by fire following a lightning strike during a storm that moved across the area Wednesday.
Former SBC President Johnny Hunt claims pastor’s wife stalked, seduced him
Former Southern Baptist Convention President Johnny Hunt, who previously admitted to engaging in "kissing and some awkward fondling" with the wife of a younger minister who accused him of sexual assault while on a beach vacation with his family in Panama City, Florida, in 2010, says he was stalked and seduced by the woman.
Eternal Church fires pastor convicted of sexual misconduct with 14-year-old 27 years ago
The nondenominational Eternal Church in Fort Mill, South Carolina, has fired longtime Pastor Donald Logan after it was revealed that he is a registered sex offender convicted of sexual misconduct with a 14-year-old girl 27 years ago.
4 churches connected to Civil Rights Movement could make UNESCO World Heritage List
Four churches in Alabama and Georgia are among 11 national Civil Rights Movement sites that the U.S. government could nominate for inclusion on the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization World Heritage List.
Did Tucker Carlson, 'prophet' Brandon Briggs predict assassination attempt on Trump?
Several months before a gunman attempted to assassinate former president and presumptive 2024 GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump on Saturday, conservative media personality Tucker Carlson and a pastor identified as Prophet Brandon Briggs, predicted that an attempt would be made to kill Trump.
Village Church Denton hired Matt Chandler’s father despite past child sex abuse, podcast alleges
The Village Church Denton, a former campus of Pastor Matt Chandler's The Village Church in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, reportedly hired Chandler's father, Steve Chandler, to work as the church's custodian and kept him on staff for five years after he confessed to child sexual abuse.
Pastors slam Todd Starnes for urging Christians to leave churches if they didn’t preach on Trump attack
Conservative media personality Todd Starnes has come under fire from a number of pastors after he urged Christians to leave their church if their pastor didn't address the assassination attempt on the life of former President Donald Trump from their pulpits on Sunday.
‘Mr. President, let your bloodied ear lead you to Jesus Christ,’ says Pastor Jack Hibbs
Megachurch Pastor Jack Hibbs says the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump’s life on Saturday is a warning shot from God urging him to “bow the knee” and truly get to know the Lord.
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