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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Perry Noble Opens Up About Double Life, Daily Drinking Problem That Led to Firing From NewSpring Church
Three months after his firing from his job as senior pastor of the popular NewSpring Church in South Carolina, Perry Noble publicly revealed on Monday the details of his rocky marriage, drinking issues, and other aspects of the double life that led to his exit from the church he founded 16 years ago.
American Missionary Jeffery Woodke Believed to Be Kidnapped by Drug Trafficking Jihadists
Jeffery Woodke, 55, the U.S. missionary who was kidnapped by armed men from his home in Niger, West Africa, on Friday after they killed his two guards, is now believed to be in the hands of a drug-trafficking jihadist group called The Movement for Unity and Jihad in West Africa.
Bishop Eddie Long Declares 'God Has Healed Me;' Church Blamed for 'Health Challenge'
Fresh off a month-long sabbatical which he spent battling an undisclosed "health challenge," controversial megachurch pastor, Bishop Eddie Long declared himself healed on his first day back at the pulpit as a preaching colleague rebuked his congregation and told them he had been suffering for their sake.
Church Apologizes, Asks Forgiveness for Banning Fat People From Worship Team
An Oregon church which came under fire in recent weeks for instituting a ban on fat people as part of a slew of mandatory guidelines to be a part of the congregation's worship team, apologized for the ban on Saturday and begged forgiveness to anyone their rules may have offended.
US Missionary Evangelizing Muslim World Forced to Strip, Then Kidnapped by Armed Men in Niger
A California church is praying desperately for the safe return of an American missionary working in Niger after he was kidnapped from his home by armed men on Friday.
America's Fall Away From God Is More About Sex Than Unbelief, Christian Author Frank Turek Says
America's fall away from God has more to do with sex than unbelief in Christianity, according to Christian author and speaker Frank Turek.
Church Bans Fat People From Worship Team Because They Would Interrupt Flow of Anointing
An Oregon church that instituted a ban on fat people as part of a slew of mandatory guidelines to be a part of the congregation's worship team has come under fire online for the discriminating rule it says is necessary, in part, for the anointing to flow through team members.
Liberty University Students Clash With President Jerry Falwell Jr. Over Support for Donald Trump
A group of students at Liberty University has clashed with the president of the Virginia-based evangelical liberal arts college, Jerry Falwell, over his continued support for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump despite recent lurid allegations of sexual assault made against him by multiple women.
LGBT Group Threatens Johns Hopkins Over Report That Science Doesn't Show People Are Born Gay, Transgender
The Human Rights Campaign, America's largest national lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer civil rights organization, has threatened to penalize Johns Hopkins University if it does not denounce a report from two of the institution's scholars which concludes that there is little scientific evidence that people are born gay or transgender.
WikiLeaks Scandal: After Hillary Clinton Confidantes Mock Catholics, Evangelicals, Letter Circulating Among Christian Leaders
A letter is being circulated among Catholic and Evangelical Christian leaders demanding Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton immediately apologize for high-level campaign staffers' anti-Christian bigotry as revealed by a WikiLeaks email Tuesday.