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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John Gray’s Relentless Church claims legal fight with Redemption Church is over ‘church members’
The ongoing legal standoff between pastor John Gray of Relentless Church and Redemption Church leaders Ron and Hope Carpenter, who are seeking to evict Relentless Church from property they own in South Carolina, is really “a fight over church members,” lawyers for Gray argue in court documents filed last Friday.
If God didn’t want women leaders He ‘wouldn’t anoint them,’ preacher who ordained 6 daughters says
A Pentecostal pastor in Michigan who ordained his six daughters as ministers earlier this month says if God didn’t want women to be leaders in the church, he “wouldn’t anoint them.”
Calvin Butts III, influential pastor of black church, under fire for endorsing Bloomberg
The Rev. Calvin Butts III, is drawing strong criticism from some members of his church for throwing his support behind billionaire Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg, who is currently under fire for his controversial support of stop-and-frisk policies that targeted mainly black and Hispanic residents.
Iowa news anchor Dan Winters reveals wife of pastor in double murder-suicide was his sister
Dan Winters co-anchor of Channel 13 News in Des Moines, Iowa, revealed Saturday that he is the brother of Diana Logan, the wife of Richard Logan, a former pastor and CEO of Attack Poverty, who fatally shot himself after killing his wife and their young son in their family home.
Pastor Davey Blackburn reveals how God helped him to forgive after first wife’s murder
In a message on forgiveness, Sunday, Pastor Davey Blackburn of Nothing Is Wasted Ministries revealed how God helped him to forgive when he struggled to embrace the concept when he first learned about the suspects involved in the 2015 murder of his first wife Amanda Blackburn.
At least 17 children die in fire at Haitian orphanage run by Pennsylvania church
The controversial Church of Bible Understanding headquartered in Pennsylvania is now under scrutiny after at least 17 children, including babies and toddlers, died after a fire ravaged one of two orphanages run by the religious group in Haiti, officials said Friday.
Boys Scouts file for bankruptcy, creates fund to compensate sex abuse victims
The Boy Scouts of America said Tuesday that the national organization has filed for bankruptcy protection in a bid to ensure equitable compensation for thousands of sexual abuse victims who were harmed while participating in their programs and ensure they can continue to carry out their mission for years to come.
How the faithful are partnering with developers to save affordable housing and America’s homeless
New evidence cited by housing advocates suggest increasing effective partnerships between developers and faith-based organizations with underutilized or vacant real estate holdings could help ease the nation's affordable housing crisis.
16K-member megachurch in Singapore suspends gathering due to coronavirus
Starting this weekend, City Harvest Church, a controversial 16,000-member megachurch in Singapore, has suspended all physical meetings and will instead meet online as the global outbreak surged to more than 64,000 cases Friday.
Former pastor who shot himself after killing wife, son ‘choked out’ surviving daughter too, police say
Richard Logan, a former pastor and Chief Executive officer of faith-based anti-poverty nonprofit, Attack Poverty who fatally shot himself after killing his wife and young son in the family home also tried strangling his daughter who survived too police in Sugar Land, Texas, revealed Thursday.
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