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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Ravi Zacharias Remembers Protégé Nabeel Qureshi as 'Passionately Evangelistic'
Ravi Zacharias remembers the day he realized something was wrong with his recently departed protégé, Christian apologist Nabeel Qureshi.
Dr. Ed Young, Pastor of America's Largest Baptist Church, Loses Wife He Met in 'Church Nursery'
Dr. Ed Young, pastor of Second Baptist Church, America's largest Baptist church which welcomed its 70,000th new member in 2016, is grieving the loss of his wife, Jo Beth, who was a bedrock of support for 58 years. She passed away early Sunday morning at the age of 80.
Trump Rips Into ESPN as Pastor John Pavlovitz Says He Agrees With Jemele Hill's White Supremacist Claims
President Donald Trump ripped into ESPN for "untruth" Friday as liberal Pastor John Pavlovitz said the uproar over comments made by Jemele Hill, co-host of ESPN's "SportsCenter," calling the president a white supremacist is proof her accusations are correct.
2 Female Pastors Wed but Pentecostal Father Tells Bride She Got Tricked by the Devil
Two female pastors who met as choir girls some 30 years ago recently got married to the chagrin of one bride's Pentecostal father who firmly declares she has been tricked by the devil.
Wife Passes 2 Months After Megachurch Preacher Frank Summerfield Dies From Unspecified Illness
Two months after Bishop Frank Summerfield, founder of Word of God Fellowship Church and Academy in Raleigh, North Carolina, died at age 67 from an unspecified illness on July 2, his wife JoeNell has also died. She was 61.
Father Diagnosed With Brain Cancer a Week After Praying to God to Help Cancer-Stricken Son
A Michigan father who desperately prayed for God to heal his cancer-stricken son and publicly offered to take the cancer instead so his son could live, was diagnosed with the deadly disease a week after his holy appeal.
Newborn Survives With 'Grace of God' After Mother Tried Flushing Him Down McDonald's Toilet
A newborn baby boy doctors initially thought wouldn't live after his mother tried flushing him down a toilet at a McDonald's in Redwood City, California, is now recovering at a hospital with "the grace of God" while his mother has been charged with attempted murder.
Man Confesses to Murder of 70-Y-O Widow Who Was Found Dead Inside Church
Dwight Mitchell Bell, 41, a man convicted of killing his own father and shooting his estranged girlfriend in 1999, has confessed to the "hideous" murder of Ruthie Carolyn New, a 70-year-old widow who was found dead in her Somerset, Kentucky, church last month.
Pastor AR Bernard Tells Oprah How Love Changed Him and Why He Believes Everyone Has a Calling
Leader of New York City's 40,000-member Christian Cultural Center, the Rev. A.R. Bernard dug into the subject of purpose, love and belief with media mogul Oprah Winfrey this week to explain how love changed him and why he believes everyone has a God-given calling.
Pastor Mark Burns Defends Confederate Statues as 'Historical Artifacts,' Wants Civil Rights Icons to Get Own Statues
Proud member of President Donald Trump's evangelical advisory board and leader of the Harvest Praise and Worship Center in Easley, South Carolina, Pastor Mark Burns00 has some advice for Americans advocating the removal of confederate statues – let them stand.