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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Incurable tumor disappears from Texas girl’s brain after community lifts her in prayers
Nearly six months after an 11-year-old old Texas girl was diagnosed with an incurable brain tumor called diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, or DIPG, doctors can no longer find a trace of it after her family and friends prayed for a miracle.
Outrage after priest suggests at funeral that teen who committed suicide might not go to Heaven
Rev. Don LaCuesta, a priest at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church in Temperance, Michigan, is now under fire for suggesting at the funeral of an 18-year-old college student that he might not go to Heaven because he took his own life.
Relentless Church members support Pastor John Gray after controversy over Lamborghini
After enduring a week he described as "one of the most difficult of our lives," Relentless Church Pastor John Gray enjoyed strong support from his congregation in South Carolina Sunday after drawing widespread flak for splurging on a $200,000 Lamborghini Urus for his wife on their eighth wedding anniversary.
World’s first Christian airline to cater to missionaries, charge no luggage fee
Christians traveling around the world and locally for mission trips and religious tours may soon be able to kiss lost luggage and baggage fees goodbye as Judah 1, an aviation ministry out of Texas is set to become the world’s first Christian airline.
Boy Scouts consider bankruptcy as membership plummets, cost of sex abuse lawsuits mount
A month after being slapped with a federal trademark lawsuit by the Girl Scouts, the Boy Scouts of America is considering bankruptcy as membership plummets and legal costs mount.
Pastor John Gray defiantly defends buying wife $200K Lamborghini with Ephesians 5
In a response to critics concerned about his decision to gift his wife a $200,000 Lamborghini Urus for their eighth wedding anniversary, Relentless Church Pastor John Gray cited the book of Ephesians.
Judge Hatchett’s son praises God, Congress for maternal health bill, 2 years after wife’s death
Two years after tragically losing his wife Kira shortly after she gave birth to their second child, Charles Johnson IV, son of TV judge Glenda Hatchett, praised God on Tuesday when Congress unanimously approved a bill to investigate America’s growing maternal mortality rate.
Gospel star Donnie McClurkin involved in ‘serious’ crash, says ‘God and two angels’ saved him
Gospel star Donnie McClurkin is singing praises to “God and two angels” for saving his life after he passed out while driving Wednesday and was involved in a serious crash.
Treasury Dep't issues guidance softening parking tax burden on churches, nonprofits
Churches and other nonprofits that provide parking for their employees welcomed new guidance from the Treasury Department Monday that softens the burden of a provision in the new Tax Cuts and Jobs Act requiring them to file federal and state income tax returns on parking benefits.
Church youth leader charged with rape of teen boy
A 35-year-old church youth leader in Tennessee is now in jail on charges of aggravated statutory rape and soliciting sexual exploitation of a minor after a 16-year-old boy told police that they had sex at least 10 times. The youth leader doesn’t recall being intimate with the teenager more than four times, police say.