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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Would-be father whose unborn baby was aborted can sue clinic, Alabama judge says
Ryan Magers, a would-be father whose girlfriend aborted their 6-week-old unborn baby two years ago, was granted permission to sue the clinic that provided the abortion after an Alabama probate judge recognized the fetus as a person with legal rights.
Jerry Falwell Jr. invites Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to speak at Liberty after alleged threat controversy
Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. has invited Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to speak at the evangelical Christian school after quashing claims that he threatened her in comments he made about the Green New Deal and his herd of cattle at a Conservative Political Action Conference event last week.
‘I’m not Lucifer’ R. Kelly declares in explosive response to sexual abuse charges
Iconic R&B singer-songwriter R. Kelly pushed back against aggravated criminal sexual abuse charges in an interview Wednesday, calling his multiple accusers liars who've painted him to look like the devil and a monster.
Justice Kavanaugh raises concern over NJ Supreme Court decision excluding churches from preservation grants
Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh argued in an opinion Monday that a decision by the New Jersey Supreme Court last year that barred churches from participating in grant programs for historic preservation “is in serious tension with this Court’s religious equality precedents.”
Ben Carson to step down from Trump's cabinet, says president isn’t racist
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Dr. Ben Carson announced Monday his plans to step down from the administration and said he has witnessed nothing to suggest that the president is racist.
Firefighters praise God after not 1 Bible is burned in fire that destroyed church
Members of the Coal City Fire Department in West Virginia acknowledged God’s power Sunday after a devastating fire burned down a local church but failed to destroy any of the Bibles inside.
Sunday school teacher's husband, stepdaughter arrested for her murder, made up panhandler attack: police
Months after the husband and stepdaughter of beloved Sunday school teacher and professional engineer Jacquelyn Smith claimed she was fatally stabbed by a panhandler, Baltimore police announced Sunday that they have arrested the father-daughter duo for the crime.
Pastor, wife, teenage daughter found dead in home they lost in foreclosure
Police in Cedar Hill, Texas, have launched a criminal investigation after a prominent local pastor, Eugene Keahey, was found dead along with his wife and their 15-year-old daughter in their family home where a fire broke out.
Survivors praise God after deadly tornado kills at least 23 in Alabama
Survivors praised God following a powerful tornado in Alabama Sunday that left “catastrophic” damage, at least 23 dead and another 20 still missing as of Monday.
Husband and wife co-pastors are trending, but scholars dispute whether it’s biblical
While husband and wife co-pastoring teams have been trending slowly as a viable form of church leadership, theology experts dispute whether the model is supported by Scripture.