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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What Katt Williams told Joe Rogan about God, the Bible, Big Bang, transgenderism and Baphomet
Actor and comedian Katt Williams commanded the attention of millions of listeners on “The Joe Rogan Experience” as he shared his thoughts on a range of topics, including God, the Bible, the Big Bang theory, homosexuality and the origin of transgenderism, which he calls demonic.
Pastor charged after teen says he raped her while she was impaired
A Florida pastor who recently started a dockside ministry for a boating community in Boot Key Harbor has been accused of getting a 15-year-old girl drunk and sexually assaulting her while she was impaired.
Megachurch Pastor Michael Todd gets haircut, shave during sermon
Oklahoma Pastor Michael Todd of Transformation Church got his hair cut and his beard shaved by a barber onstage during his sermon on Sunday to demonstrate to his congregation how submitting themselves to being shaped by God leads to the bearing of godly fruit in their lives.
Son of pastor shot by carjackers grieves attack on his ‘Superman’ father, brands shooters as ‘thugs’
A week after Zionfield Baptist Church Pastor Clemmie Livingston Jr., was shot in the mouth last Sunday by carjackers as he prepared for service in Memphis, Tennessee, his adult son, the Rev. Keith Livingston, grieved the attack as “one of the most challenging” things he's ever had to face. He called the shooters who are still on the lam “thugs.”
James MacDonald’s mental health hearing on PTSD in assault case postponed
Harvest Bible Chapel founder James MacDonald won’t find out until June 4 if a mental health diversion program for his diagnosed post-traumatic stress disorder will enable him to avoid a possible seven-year prison sentence for allegedly attacking a 59-year-old woman in a California parking lot last March.
Video of Lakewood Church shooting shows officer praying for life of 7-year-old Samuel Moreno
Edited video footage released by the Houston Police Department of the fatal shooting of 36-year-old Lakewood Church shooter Genesse Moreno on Feb. 11 shows an officer praying for Moreno’s 7-year-old son who was shot in the head.
Wife of pastor shot in mouth says his injuries are ‘more serious than people know’
The wife of Zionfield Baptist Church Pastor Clemmie Livingston Jr., who was shot in the mouth by carjackers as he was getting ready for a service at his church in Memphis, Tennessee, on Sunday, says his injuries are “more serious than people know” and is now seeking the public’s help to get him the medical care he needs.
St. Louis church condemned after 3 members arrested for allegedly kidnapping woman
A Pentecostal church in St. Louis, Missouri, where an unidentified woman told police she was held captive and beaten by three men during a 30-day fast has been condemned by city officials.
Pastor shot in mouth during carjacking at church also battling cancer, family reveals
Zionfield Baptist Church Pastor Clemmie Livingston Jr., who was shot in the mouth by carjackers as he was getting ready for a service at his church in Memphis, Tennessee, on Sunday, is also battling cancer, his family has revealed.
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