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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Megachurch Pastor Apollo Quiboloy allegedly smuggled over $100K out of the US
Controversial Filipino megachurch pastor, Apollo Quiboloy, who was arrested by federal agents in Honolulu, Hawaii last year after weaponry and approximately $350,000 dollars were found on his private jet, has been accused of previously smuggling hundreds of thousands of dollars out of the country.
Jerry Falwell Jr says he won’t ‘turn the other cheek’ to leakers; Liberty U students plan protest
On the heels of allegations that Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. disparaged students and staff in emails leaked to the press, the embattled Christian leader says, in defense of the university, he won’t “turn the other cheek” to leakers.
Antonio Brown allegedly exploited Christian rape accuser’s faith but wide receiver says she's no saint
A woman who alleges in a lawsuit that New England Patriots wide receiver Antonio Brown sexually assaulted her on three separate occasions including a rape that left her traumatized and another encounter in which Brown assaulted her as she watched a sermon, said he exploited her faith after they first met at a Bible study.
Pastor and wife killed in head-on crash, 3 others including grandchild injured
Reactions are still pouring in after a longtime Tennessee pastor and his wife were killed and their grandchild hospitalized after a grisly crash in East Knox County on Tuesday morning.
America facing shortage of ‘economically attractive’ unmarried men, study says
America is facing a significant shortage of highly educated “economically attractive” unmarried men who earn at least $53,000 and have a college degree. And the situation could result in unmarried women remaining unmarried or marrying less well-suited partners, a study says.
LU President Jerry Falwell Jr. says he was at Miami nightclub but photos were 'maybe' photo-shopped
A photographer has pushed back against any suggestion that images he captured of Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. at a Miami Beach nightclub in July 2014 were photo-shopped as the Christian college leader admitted Wednesday to being at the club for about 30 minutes.
Pastor Jarrid Wilson took his life hours after officiating funeral of Christian woman who took her own
Hours before he would take his own life on the eve of World Suicide Prevention Day Monday night, Pastor Jarrid Wilson, 30, asked for prayers as he got ready to officiate the funeral of a Christian woman who had earlier taken her own.
Churches teaching suicide prevention, correct theology on damnation as nearly 800K take lives annually
It was about 1974 while serving as a military chaplain when Bill Graham, visitation pastor at First Baptist Clarksville Church in Tennessee, had his first brush with suicide.
Why even atheists find this Manhattan church attractive
At the centuries old, progressive Rutgers Presbyterian Church on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, an evolving culture of faith that includes an active pursuit of social justice is drawing atheists among its flock.
Pastors face questions after selling church property and buying million dollar lakefront home
A husband and wife team of pastors from Eden Prairie, Minnesota, are now facing tough questions after selling their longtime church to developers then splurging on a million dollar luxury lake front home while telling their members that God now wants them to worship in "micro churches" held in their homes.