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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Come June 4, former Hillsong NYC pastor Carl Lentz and his wife, Laura, will reveal what they have teased as a “new chapter,” according to a video posted on their social media Tuesday night.
Pastor Jamal Bryant announces engagement to Karri Turner
More than five years after taking the helm of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Lithonia, Georgia, as a single, divorced father, Pastor Jamal Bryant announced on Sunday that he is now engaged to Christian motivational speaker Karri Turner.
Remains of American missionaries killed in Haiti to return home as Trump calls for justice
The remains of American missionaries Davy and Natalie Lloyd, who were shot dead by gangsters in Haiti on Friday, are expected to be flown home as former President Donald Trump offered condolences to the family of Missouri state Rep. Ben Baker, Natalie's father.
Jamal Bryant, TD Jakes speak out on domestic violence after publication of Diddy, Cassie video
Two days after CNN published a hotel surveillance video from 2016 that appear to show music mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs shoving, grabbing, dragging and kicking his then-girlfriend Cassie Ventura, megachurch pastors T.D. Jakes and Jamal Bryant spoke out against domestic violence in their sermons Sunday.
White House offers prayers, support after tornado kills 5, injures multiple others in Iowa
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre offered prayers and support from the Biden administration after five people were reported dead and at least 35 injured after a massive tornado, rated at least an EF-3 by the National Weather Service, swept through Iowa and devastated the small city of Greenfield.
Pastor Matthew Queen charged with obstructing DOJ, FBI investigation of SBC
The Department of Justice has charged former Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary evangelism professor and provost Matthew Queen with falsifying records connected to its investigation of allegations the Southern Baptist Convention leaders mishandled allegations of abuse.
After setting record for baptisms in California, pastor wants to baptize America, then the world
In what has been dubbed the largest synchronized baptism in American history, more than 12,000 people were baptized in the name of Christ across California on Pentecost Sunday. The pastor who founded the movement to make it happen called Baptize California says he plans to take it across America and then the world.
AME official Jerome V. Harris dies amid lawsuit over nearly $100M missing from pension fund
Jerome V. Harris, the former executive director of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, Inc.’s Department of Retirement Services who was accused in a federal lawsuit of losing nearly $100 million from the denomination’s retirement plan, has died. He was 79.
IHOPKC’s Forerunner Church closes with final service amid Mike Bickle scandal
International House of Prayer Kansas City continues to unravel amid founder Mike Bickle's sex scandal as its Forerunner Church held a final service in the fellowship of about 1,000 worshipers Sunday, leaving some in tears.
Las Vegas pastor escapes jail time for sex crimes case but required to register as sex offender
Nearly three years after he was charged with sexual assault, child abuse and other crimes involving multiple underage victims, Pastor Bobby Cornealius Smith of New Beginnings Ministries Church of God in Christ in Las Vegas, Nevada, was sentenced to one-year probation during which he will be required to register as a sex offender. However, he will continue to serve as a pastor, his attorney said.
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