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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Abortion, same-sex marriage are religious freedoms, Columbia Law report says
Liberal people of faith are fighting to freely practice their beliefs and practices, such as abortion and same-sex marriage, a new report from Columbia Law School’s Law, Rights, and Religion Project says.
Millions flocking to spirit-empowered Christianity for personal encounter with God
When the Empowered21 Global Congress convenes in Jerusalem, Israel, in spring 2020, one of the main items on the agenda will be how to get every person on the planet to have an authentic experience with the Holy Spirit.
Mom files lawsuit against priest for suggesting son who died by suicide might not go to Heaven
The mother of an 18-year-old college student who died by suicide last December, has filed a lawsuit against Rev. Don LaCuesta, a priest at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church in Temperance, Michigan, for suggesting at her son’s funeral that he might not go to Heaven.
Tickets to Kanye West’s ‘Sunday Service’ at Joel Osteen’s church being scalped for hundreds of dollars
Free tickets to rapper Kanye West’s Jesus Is King “Sunday Service” concert at Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas, are being scalped online for hundreds of dollars ahead of the touted event expected to draw “huge crowds” in what is expected to be the biggest installment of the event yet.
Teenage suspect in deadly Saugus High shooting was ‘quiet’ Boy Scout
Nathaniel Berhow, the suspected 16-year-old shooter who killed two classmates and injured three others before attempting to take his own life in a 16-second rampage at Saugus High School in Santa Clarita, California, on Thursday, was a “quiet” Boy Scouts member who recently suffered the loss of his father.
Student shoots several at Calif. high school; shoots himself, survives and in custody, police say
A 16-year-old female student was shot dead and several other individuals were injured at Saugus High School in Santa Clarita, California, Thursday after a suspect who is now in police custody shot them, then shot himself in the head, police said.
Brooklyn Bishop appointed by Pope Francis to investigate sex abuse is accused of abuse
Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio, leader of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn, who was appointed by Pope Francis to investigate clergy abuse in the diocese of Buffalo, is now facing allegations of abuse of his own which he insists are “false.”
Pastor Jamal Bryant rips Kanye West for endorsing 'orange friend' Trump
Pastor Jamal Bryant didn’t mince words during a fiery sermon in which he branded rapper Kanye West a “sellout” for endorsing his “orange friend” President Donald Trump.
Jimmy Carter has brain surgery days after telling Sunday school he’s ‘at ease with death’
Days after telling his church he was “at ease with death” during a Sunday school lesson, former President Jimmy Carter successfully underwent brain surgery Tuesday to relieve pressure on his brain stemming from three separate falls in recent months.
With biggest ‘Sunday Service’ audience yet, Kanye West to appear at Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church
In what is expected to be his biggest “Sunday Service” audience yet, rapper Kanye West will reportedly join megachurch pastor, Joel Osteen at his Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas, on Sunday for a conversation that promises to be epic.