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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Most black Americans attend black churches but want diversity: study
While most black Americans believe historically black congregations should become more racially and ethnically diverse, the majority prefer to attend predominantly black congregations that feature distinctive expressions of worship like praying in tongues.
How Voddie Baucham fought for years to protect his heart, health
Prominent Southern Baptist author and preacher Voddie Baucham Jr. is getting treatment at the Mayo Clinic in Florida for his recently diagnosed heart failure, but for at least a decade, the 51-year-old father of nine had been doing everything he could to avoid this health outcome.
Nashville church says Bible isn’t the Word of God, then draws ire
A progressive Nashville church has drawn the ire of the internet after sharing a message on social media declaring the Bible isn’t the Word of God, inerrant or infallible.
Henry Louis Gates: Black people didn’t embrace Christianity to get to Heaven
While it was a “distant motivation,” black Americans did not embrace Christianity to get to Heaven, according to renowned historian, filmmaker and public intellectual Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Texas winter disaster delays Voddie Baucham’s quest for heart failure treatment in Florida
Prominent Southern Baptist author and preacher Voddie Baucham Jr., who recently revealed his struggle with “full-blown heart failure,” said he is trying to get to Florida for treatment but was still stuck in snow-ravaged Texas Tuesday night without power.
Melvin Banks Sr., founder of largest black-owned Christian publishing company, dies at 86
Melvin E. Banks Sr., the founder of Urban Ministries, Inc., the largest independent, African American-owned and operated Christian media and publishing company, passed away Saturday at 86.
John MacArthur’s men’s conference postponed after threats from California officials
John MacArthur’s Shepherds’ Conference for men in church leadership, which was expected to draw some 3,000 attendees to the megachurch in Sun Valley, California, next month, has been postponed due to “ongoing litigation" and "threats" from the state.
Brian Houston announces plans to revamp management at Hillsong Church
Citing the denomination’s rapid growth and a desire to make way for younger leadership and a more effective organizational structure, Hillsong Church Global Senior Pastor Brian Houston announced Sunday that he and his wife, Bobbie, have decided to bring on more support at the top.
Frederick KC Price’s youngest daughter remembers him as her ‘first Valentine’ in touching tribute
Two days after her father's death from COVID-19, Stephanie Price Buchanan, the youngest daughter of the late Frederick K.C. Price, remembered the beloved televangelist in a touching tribute in which she called him her “first Valentine.”
Chrishan and Danielle Jeyaratnam to replace Carl Lentz as new leaders of Hillsong NYC
Hillsong Church’s Global Senior Pastor Brian Houston announced Sunday that Chrishan Jeyaratnam and his wife, Danielle, will replace Carl Lentz as leaders of Hillsong East Coast following the sex scandal that brought down the church’s former leader.
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