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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New Accuser Says Roy Moore Sexually Assaulted Her at 16: 'I Thought That He Was Going to Rape Me'
Beverly Young Nelson, an Alabama woman celebrity attorney Gloria Allred calls "brave" became the latest woman on Monday to accuse Southern Baptist Judge and Republican nominee for Senate in Alabama Roy Moore, of sexually assaulting her when she was just a minor.
Christian NFL Players Who Support Colin Kaepernick Ask Critics What Would Jesus Do?
Would Jesus support Colin Kaepernick's take-a-knee protest movement against social injustice? A number of Christian players in the NFL, such as Baltimore Ravens tight end Benjamin Watson, believe He would, but say they are frustrated by fellow Christians who continue to demonize efforts by players in the league to increase awareness and spur action against social injustice in America.
Roy Moore's Pastor Says Sexual Misconduct Allegations 'Untrue;' Defends Him as Man of 'Integrity'
Republican Senate candidate and Southern Baptist Alabama Judge Roy Moore's pastor at Gallant First Baptist Church, where he has worshiped for most of his life, dismissed swirling allegations of sexual misconduct against his parishioner as "untrue" Sunday.
Evangelical Ky. Gov. Praised for Urging State Lawmakers Who Settled Sexual Harassment Lawsuits to Resign
Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin, an evangelical Christian, drew high praises from the evangelical community this week for calling on state lawmakers who settled sexual harassment lawsuits to resign.
Evangelicals Slam Use of Mary and Joseph to Defend Roy Moore's Sexual Misconduct Allegations
Pastor and Billy Graham Distinguished Chair at Wheaton College in Illinois, Ed Stetzer, has slammed the use of the biblical Mary and Joseph's relationship to defend Southern Baptist Alabama Judge Roy Moore against allegations that he initiated a sexual encounter with a 14-year-old girl when he was 32 and other evangelicals share his outrage.
Texas Church Where Members Were Massacred May Be Torn Down; Survivors Don't Want to Go Back
First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs in Texas, where 26 members were slaughtered and another 20 seriously injured by a gunman on Sunday, will not reopen its doors, the church's pastor announced Wednesday.
More Than $1M Raised for Texas Church Massacre Victims, Family That Lost 8 Gets Outpouring
More than $1.3 million has been raised for the victims of Sunday's historic massacre at First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs in Texas as of Thursday afternoon and more than $500,000 of those funds is earmarked for the family of the slain guest preacher Bryan Holcombe.
Mike Pence Pledges to End Bureaucratic Bungling That Enabled Church Massacre
Vice President Mike Pence hailed local heroes and offered prayerful comfort to survivors and families of those who were lost in Sunday's massacre at First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs in Texas Wednesday as he pledged to ensure that the bureaucratic bungling that allowed deranged gunman Devin Kelley access to weapons, will never happen again.
Video Captured Devin Kelley Methodically Executing Congregants Inside Texas Church
A video of Sunday's massacre of 26 members of the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs, in Texas, by gunman Devin Kelley, 26, shows him methodically shooting his victims in the head in an episode that lasted for several minutes inside the church's sanctuary a law enforcement official said Wednesday.
Texas Shooter Devin Kelley Was Familiar Face at Church but Pastor Didn't Want Him Around
Pastor Frank Pomeroy of First Baptist Church of Sutherland in Texas where 26 people were executed in a hail of bullets along with another 20 who were injured on Sunday says suspected shooter Devin Kelley, 26, was a familiar face at his church that he didn't really want to be around.