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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Atlanta to pay $3.8M to family of deacon who died in struggle with officer
The family of 62-year-old Georgia deacon Johnny Hollman, who died last August after an Atlanta Police Department officer tasered him during a scuffle stemming from a motor vehicle accident, will be paid $3.8 million to settle a federal lawsuit.
Mica Miller bought gun, told police ‘I’m about to kill myself’ in 911 call
The Robeson County Sheriff's Office in North Carolina presented a detailed report of “clear and compelling” evidence Tuesday showing that Mica Miller took her own life, including a 911 call in which she told a dispatcher, “I’m about to kill myself and I just want my family to know where to find me.”
Man claims God told him to shoot pastor during service but gun jammed
A Pennsylvania pastor is praising God for miraculously intervening to save his life after a man attempted to shoot him during his sermon on Sunday but failed because his gun jammed.
Mica Miller died from self-inflicted gunshot wound, medical examiner reveals
Before she was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound that has been ruled a suicide, Mica Miller, the wife of Pastor John-Paul Miller, allegedly warned her family that if she was found fatally shot in the head, her husband should be blamed, according to claims made by her younger sister, Sierra Francis.
Pastor says his mentally troubled wife died by suicide, but some refuse to believe
Police in North Carolina are investigating the death of Mica Miller, the wife of Pastor John-Paul Miller of Solid Rock at Market Common in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, who was found with a bullet wound to her head at Lumber River State Park in Robeson County last Saturday as her widower comes under a barrage of suspicion online.
Beth Moore, doctor criticize John MacArthur for claiming mental illness isn’t real
Pastor John MacArthur is facing withering criticism from some doctors, Christian mental health experts and outspoken Evangelical figures like Beth Moore following his comment saying there is no such thing as mental illness.
Anna Crenshaw rejects Hillsong’s offer after megachurch allegedly asked her to sign NDA, lie
A legal agreement that was being brokered between Hillsong Church Australia and former member and ex-Hillsong College student Anna Crenshaw to settle a lawsuit over the harm she suffered from being indecently assaulted by a married church administrator in 2016 fell through Thursday. Crenshaw alleges that Hillsong asked her to lie and sign a non-disclosure agreement.
Man jailed for burning historic church says he was only trying to scare bugs
A man who was jailed for setting fire to the historic Colonial Manor United Methodist Church in West Deptford, New Jersey, says he was only trying to scare bugs, but local prosecutors say he has been a longtime danger to his community.
Pastor John MacArthur says there is no such thing as mental illness, calls PTSD ‘grief’
In what at least one critic has dismissed as the Dunning Krueger Effect in action, Pastor John MacArthur, of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California, claims there is no such thing as mental illness.
Real Life Ministries processes suicide of Pastor Gene Jacobs, founder says he’s in Heaven
Days after one of his campus pastors was found dead by authorities from an apparent “self-inflicted gunshot wound” in Idaho, Jim Putman, founder and senior pastor of the multi-campus Real Life Ministries, comforted his grieving parishioners Sunday with a promise that though the campus pastor’s suicide is a sin, he believes he is in Heaven.
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