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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Ark. senator's viral speech on racism and gun laws draws praise from Thabiti Anyabwile
Thabiti Anyabwile praised an Arkansas state senator's passionate speech on racism and gun laws.
NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio, SC church draw flak for worshiping with R. Kelly’s ‘I Believe I Can Fly’
Democrat New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and congregants at the Victory Tabernacle Deliverance Temple in Orangeburg, South Carolina, are drawing flak for worshiping with embattled R&B singer R. Kelly's hit song "I Believe I Can Fly."
Education Sec. will no longer enforce restriction on religious organizations providing ‘equitable services’
Calling the restriction unconstitutional, U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy Devos said Monday that her agency will no longer enforce a restriction that bars religious organizations from providing contract-based “equitable services” such as special education and tutoring solely due to their religious affiliation.
Pastor praises God after church bus crash has no fatalities
A Tennessee pastor who lost control of and crashed a church bus in which he was transporting multiple teenagers over the weekend, is now thanking God after they all walked away from the wreck alive.
Gay pres. candidate Buttigieg talks Christian faith, slams Pence supporting 'porn star presidency'
Pete Buttigieg, the 37-year-old mayor of South Bend, Indiana, who announced himself in January as the first openly gay Democratic presidential candidate, says he tries to live a life that is “consistent with Christian teachings” and questioned whether Vice President Mike Pence truly believes in Scripture.
SBC pastor repents for not taking action, says fired music minister had multiple victims
Just over a week after a Southern Baptist Convention committee determined that six of 10 churches did not need further inquiry regarding their handling of sexual abuse, Pastor Rodney Brown, leader of one of the six churches, repented and apologized for not earlier firing a staff member alleged to have abused several children because the staffer was a friend.
Born-again firefighter says Bible supports beards for men as bosses require him to shave
A firefighter and Pentecostal pastor who was denied an accommodation to grow a beard says his religious freedom was violated because the Bible requires facial hair for men.
Pastor David Chadwick resigns, shares doubts about multicampus church model
After nearly 40 years at the helm of the Forest Hill Church in Charlotte, North Carolina, which he built from a 180-member congregation into a 4,000-member, six-campus ministry, Pastor David Chadwick has resigned.
Majority of churches in decline or flatlining; nearly half see dip in giving, study says
A majority of churches have fewer than 100 people attending services each Sunday and have declined or nearly flatlined in membership growth, according to a new study from Exponential by LifeWay Research.
NJ firefighter-pastor sues fire department for making him shave beard he grew for religious reasons
A born-again Christian firefighter and pastor in New Jersey has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against Atlantic City as well as the fire department’s chief and deputy chief for threatening to suspend him without pay unless he shaved a beard he claims he grew for religious reasons.