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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Grandmother asks for prayers after twin brother and sister die in house fire
A grandmother grieving the death of her fraternal twin grandchildren and the severe burning of her daughter-in-law during a house fire in Manchester, Georgia, is now asking for prayers for her family as they struggle to come to terms with the tragedy.
Willow Creek announces shuttering of Chicago campus
Citing an “unsustainable financial scenario” Willow Creek Community Church Senior Pastor David Dummitt has announced the shuttering of the multi-campus megachurch’s downtown Chicago campus.
Pit bulls fatally mauled Indiana pastor for 25 minutes before police arrived, granddaughter says
The granddaughter of an 85-year-old Indiana pastor who watched him being mauled to death by two stray pit bulls in his backyard last Tuesday morning said it took local police about 25 minutes to respond to their cries for help and her family now wants to know why as officials confirmed one of the killer dogs remain on the loose.
Judge freezes accounts of pastor who sold worthless cryptocurrency to Christians
A judge in Denver, Colorado, ordered the financial accounts of a pastor and his wife frozen after they sold $3.2 million in a worthless cryptocurrency to their Christian followers, then pocketed $1.3 million for their personal use, characterizing their actions as “unmitigated greed."
Mired in debt, majority of young adults financially dependent on parents: Pew
Despite being better educated, working more, and earning higher incomes than their counterparts from three decades ago, more than half of young adults between the ages of 18 to 34 are financially dependent on their parents, with many still living at home, unmarried, childless and mired in debt, a new study from the Pew Research Center shows.
Teen pleads guilty to murder of Pastor Autura Eason-Williams, widower vows to never forgive him
A 16-year-old with just an eighth-grade education has pleaded guilty to the daylight murder of prominent United Methodist Church pastor, the Rev. Autura Eason-Williams, and her widower vowed in court on Thursday that he will never forgive him for the crime.
Mike Bickle confesses to ‘consensual sexual contact’ with 2nd woman in IHOPKC investigation report
International House of Prayer Kansas City founder Mike Bickle has confessed to engaging in “consensual sexual contact” with a woman connected to the 24/7 prayer ministry in addition to a previously confessed relationship, an investigation report released Wednesday finds.
Pastor mauled to death by pit bulls after saving wife in attack
An Indiana pastor’s wife is remembering her husband of nearly 50 years as “a hero” after he died protecting her from two stray pit bulls that mauled him to death when he tried to chase them off their property on Tuesday.
Texas father sues Assemblies of God, accuses Chi Alpha leaders of sexually abusing teenage son
Some seven months after Daniel Savala, an itinerant minister and convicted sex offender with ties to the Chi Alpha Campus Ministries sponsored by the Assemblies of God, was arrested for sexually abusing two boys, a Texas father has filed a lawsuit accusing the nation’s largest Pentecostal denomination of negligence that allowed his 13-year-old son to be abused by multiple men.
Evangelist Hans Schmidt returns to church months after being shot in head while preaching
Hans Schmidt, the 26-year-old military veteran and outreach director of Victory Chapel First Phoenix in Arizona, who was shot in the head while street preaching last November and wasn't initially expected to recover, has returned to his church, his wife announced Sunday, saying, "he walks, he talks, [and] he even plays the drums."
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