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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Televangelist Kenneth Copeland says any Christian who doesn’t vote is ‘guilty of murder’
Warning Christians that praying for President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence isn’t enough, televangelist Kenneth Copeland urged them to vote this November because if they fail to cast a ballot, they will be “guilty of murder.”
Liberty U’s campus pastor apologizes to students for ‘shameful’ Jerry Falwell Jr. scandal
David Nasser, Liberty University’s campus pastor and senior vice president of the school’s office of spiritual development, apologized Wednesday night to students for the “shameful” sex scandal involving the institution’s former president, Jerry Falwell Jr., saying that they deserved “much better than this.”
Pastor credits Jacob Blake’s ‘miracle’ survival to prayer with his Christian mother after shooting
When 29-year-old Wisconsin father Jacob S. Blake, was shot multiple times by a police officer in Kenosha on Sunday evening, one of the first things his devout Christian mother Julia Jackson did was call her pastor at Insight Church in Skokie, Illinois.
For King and Country, Christian artists join virtual concert to help developing world suffering amid COVID-19
It would be a tragedy, says Joel Smallbone of Christian pop band, for King and Country, if the coronavirus pandemic ended and the world failed to learn anything from it or even grew closer to God.
Jerry Falwell Jr. will get $10.5M severance from Liberty U in wake of sex scandal
Since he wasn’t formally accused of or admitted to any wrongdoing, former Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. said he will walk away with a severance package totaling $10.5 million after his resignation Monday night in the wake of a sex scandal.
Liberty University accepts Jerry Falwell Jr.’s resignation ‘effective immediately’
The Board of Trustees of Liberty University, one of the largest evangelical Christian universities in the world, announced Tuesday that they had accepted the resignation of their president and chancellor, Jerry Falwell Jr., “effective immediately” after he and his wife, Rebecca, were implicated in a sex scandal Monday.
Pastor John Gray accused of another inappropriate relationship; lawyers say he’s being blackmailed
Lawyers for megachurch pastor John Gray said Monday that he is being blackmailed and extorted after the leader of Relentless Church in South Carolina was accused of engaging in another inappropriate relationship.
Catholic Republican calls Trump, Pence 'gifts' from God America doesn’t deserve
Kicking off the Republican National Convention on Monday, Jay Shepard, a Catholic Republican delegate from Vermont, described President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence as "gifts" that “God has bestowed upon us” but “not because we deserve them."
Telling the uncomfortable truth about racial reconciliation and the Church's struggle to achieve it
In the wake of global protests over inequality and police brutality sparked by the killing of George Floyd, many American Christians and churches are now struggling to strike the right note on racial reconciliation. Some religion scholars and pastors also warn that healing can’t happen without first telling the truth about the Church’s record on race.
Jerry Falwell denies claim he resigned from Liberty U, says he's on indefinite leave
In an interview with Politico Monday evening, Jerry Falwell Jr. denied reports that he has resigned as president and chancellor of Liberty University. He clarified that he is on "indefinite leave" after the Associated Press cited a school official earlier in the day to report that Falwell had resigned.
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