Leonardo Blair
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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New Jersey calls off vote to eliminate religious exemptions for vaccines after protest
New Jersey’s Senate abandoned efforts to pass a bill Monday that would end religious exemptions to vaccine requirements for some 14,000 students enrolled in public or private schools across the state after hundreds of protesters showed up at the statehouse.
California man charged with murdering his ex-girlfriend's unborn baby
A California man is now facing several felony charges including first degree murder after he forced his pregnant ex-girlfriend at gunpoint to take several pills that induced a miscarriage after she initially refused to have an abortion.
God is going to end impeachment, give Trump another term, Bethel’s Kris Vallotton prophesies
Kris Vallotton, senior associate leader of Bethel Church and co-founder of Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry in Redding, California says God wants President Donald Trump to have another term in office and is going to end the impeachment process in a way that’s “not gonna be pretty.”
LDS Church pressed struggling members for tithes despite $100b stockpile, whistleblower says
Despite amassing some $100 billion dollars in accounts meant for charitable purposes, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints pressed struggling members to tithe while bailing out a church-run insurance company and a shopping mall with billions a new whistleblower complaint to the Internal Revenue Service alleges.
One Million Moms urge boycott after Hallmark Channel reinstates ad of kissing brides
The Hallmark Channel, which bills itself the “country’s leading destination for quality family entertainment,” apologized Sunday for removing an ad from Zola.com that features two brides kissing and has reinstated it after backlash from gay rights advocates.
James MacDonald sues Chicago radio personality ‘Mancow’ Muller for defamation
Harvest Bible Chapel’s founder and former leader James MacDonald has slapped Chicago radio personality Matthew “Mancow” Muller with a lawsuit alleging multiple counts defamation and is seeking at least $50,000 in compensatory damages for the spread of false information which caused him emotional distress and significant harm to his reputation.
John Gray defends character, announces new Relentless Church campuses for Greenville and Atlanta
John Gray defended his character and announced that he’ll be moving his Relentless Church congregation to a different location in Greenville, South Carolina, in 2020 and establish a new one in Atlanta.
World’s largest coalition of religious leaders urged to be ‘moral conscience’ of nations
A Minnesota professor of religion warned the world’s largest coalition of religious leaders that getting involved in politics can compromise their “moral voices” and suggested they should instead aspire to be the “moral conscience” of their countries to promote a more effective agenda of peace.
Parents should lie to children about God even if they don’t believe, therapist says
Even if they don’t believe in God, parents should lie and promote faith in God anyway because it results in better mental health outcomes psychoanalyst, parent coach and author, Erica Komisar says.
Thousands call on Hallmark to reject LGBT-themed Christmas content
Thousands are now calling on leading destination for quality family entertainment, the Hallmark Channel to keep the network free of LGBTQ Christmas content after the cable network was called out for not featuring any lead gay characters in any of their holiday programming.