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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Pandemic has revealed weaknesses in Church culture, Francis Chan says
The coronavirus pandemic has revealed weaknesses in western Church culture that can be addressed by using restrictions as an opportunity to go deeper with God, says Francis Chan, the founder of Cornerstone Church in Simi Valley, California, who now lives in Hong Kong.
Ex Ministries founder warns Black Lives Matter movement cannot be separated from organization
Ex Ministries founder and pastor, G. Craige Lewis is warning Christians to stop supporting the popular black lives matter movement, which is an unstructured protest of racial inequality, because it cannot be separated from the ungodly Black Lives Matter organization founded by three “lesbian witches.”
Interest in divorce, particularly among newlyweds, soaring amid pandemic: Legal org
More couples, particularly newlyweds, have been seeking divorce agreements online amid the pandemic lockdowns, according to data collected by Legal Template, an organization with offices in Delaware and North Carolina that seeks to simplify the process of creating legal contracts.
Louisiana pastor, 68, killed in sleep after tree struck his home during Hurricane Laura
Pastor James Cart Jr., leader of First Baptist Church in Iota, Louisiana, was among 18 people killed in the wake of Hurricane Laura last Thursday when a tree fell on his home as he slept through the storm. He was 68.
PPP kept 75% of churches, Christian organizations that took loans fully staffed: survey
Some 75% of Christian churches and organizations that applied for and received forgivable loans under the federal government’s coronavirus relief program for small businesses, known as the Paycheck Protection Program, say the loans helped keep their operations fully staffed and many of them have already been forgiven.
Roger Stone testifies how he gave his life to God after hitting ‘rock bottom’
Conservative political consultant and lobbyist Roger Stone, whose 40-month sentence in federal prison was commuted by President Donald Trump in July, testified how he turned his life over to God at a Franklin Graham revival after “hitting rock bottom” in January 2019.
Pastor John Gray says he has ‘submitted to a process of restoration’ after new infidelity allegations
Megachurch pastor John Gray announced that he has “submitted to a process of restoration” that will sometimes take him away from his church in the wake of new allegations of infidelity, some of which he admits are true.
More than half of US adults, 30% of evangelicals believe Jesus isn’t God: study
More than half of American adults, including 30% of evangelicals, say Jesus isn’t God but most agree He was a great teacher, according to results from the 2020 State of Theology survey.
US Marshals recover 39 missing children in two-week operation in Georgia
In a two-week search for endangered missing children in Georgia dubbed “Operation Not Forgotten,” the U.S. Marshals Service said Thursday that they recovered 39 children and arrested several individuals in connection with their disappearance, including persons who had sex offender violations.
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