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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Whole Woman's Health Offers Free Abortions to Harvey Victims; Pro-Life Advocates Call It 'Heinous'
Whole Woman's Health, a privately-owned feminist organization that provides comprehensive gynecology services, including abortion care, has announced that it will give free abortion services to victims of Tropical Storm Harvey for the entire month of September. Conservative critics have slammed the move as "heinous."
Did Cold Medicine Make Aspiring Pastor Kill Wife in 'Dream'?
Facing the possibility of death or life in prison without parole, Matthew James Phelps, an aspiring pastor charged with fatally stabbing his wife in their North Carolina home last Friday, will be looking into whether the cold medicine he took before going to bed – Coricidin Cough & Cold – played a role in the shocking murder, lawyers say.
Pastors Urged Trump to Show 'Heart' for 'Dreamers' Before He Ended DACA
A group of evangelical pastors who were early supporters of President Donald Trump's bid for the White House in 2016 and who later became official advisers, urged him to show "heart" for the young beneficiaries of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, known as DACA, before his administration announced an end to the program Tuesday.
Aspiring Pastor Allegedly Kills Sunday School Teacher Wife, Ending Instagram Love Story
A love story that started on Instagram and resulted in marriage between an aspiring pastor and a Sunday School teacher, ended in a gruesome nightmare last Friday after the man allegedly stabbed his loving wife to death after drinking too much cough medicine.
$150K Raised for 3-Y-O Girl Found Clinging to Christian Mother's Lifeless Body in Flood
Just over 4,500 people moved by the heartbreaking story of a 3-year-old girl, Jordyn Grace, who was rescued still clinging to her mother's lifeless body as it floated in floodwaters from Tropical Storm Harvey in Beaumont, Texas, on Tuesday, donated some $150,000 to help her in just one day.
Officer Greg Abbott Who Said 'We Only Kill Black People' Offers to Resign After Firing
Lt. Gregg Abbott, a Georgia police officer who made headlines this week after a dash cam video from 2016 was released showing him telling a nervous woman during a DUI traffic stop that she didn't have to worry about getting shot because "we only kill black people," offered to resign shortly after his bosses announced Thursday that they would be firing him.
'I Feel at Peace Because We Did the Right Thing,' Joel Osteen Tells Critics
Pastor of Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas, Joel Osteen says he is "at peace" knowing he "did the right thing" despite facing withering attacks online from critics who refuse to believe he did not initially open the doors of his megachurch to shelter Harvey flood victims because he was worried about flooding in the massive 16,000-seat church.
'We Only Kill Black People,' Georgia Officer Tells Worried Woman in DUI Traffic Stop
A Georgia police officer is now on desk duty pending an investigation after he was caught on dash-cam video from 2016 telling a nervous woman during a DUI traffic stop that she didn't have to worry about getting shot because "we only kill black people, right?"
Pastor Whose Hand Slipped Into Woman's Pants While Anointing Her With Oil Won't Be Charged
A Michigan pastor who was accused of sexual assault by a former parishioner and admitted that his hand might have slipped into her pants while anointing her with oil to cleanse her of sexual sins at her home will not face charges, a local prosecutor said Wednesday.
Christian Mom Drowns 'Saying Prayers' to Save Daughter Found Clinging to Her Lifeless Body
Collette Sulcer, an unashamed Christian mother and nurse who drowned Tuesday after "saying her prayers" while trapped with her 3-year-old daughter, Jordyn, in floodwaters from Tropical Storm Harvey in Beaumont, Texas, is now being hailed as an "American hero" after Jordyn was rescued alive in a canal clinging to her mother's lifeless body.
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