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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Christian Minister R.C. Sproul Jr. Is Suspended After Confessing Visit to Ashley Madison in 'Moment of Weakness'
R.C. Sproul Jr., son of Robert Charles Sproul, a noted Reformed theologian and founder of the international Christian organization, Ligonier Ministries, revealed Monday that he visited the controversial spouse-cheating Ashley Madison website in a "moment of weakness" last year and has been suspended by the board of Ligonier Ministries for it.
Donald Trump Says He's Winning Because 'Americans Are Tired of Being the Patsy;' 2016 Will Be About 'Competence'
Billionaire 2016 GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump who is currently the frontrunner to get the party's nomination according to several polls, told voters at the National Federation of Republican Assemblies' 2015 conference in Nashville, Tennessee Saturday that he is winning because "Americans are tired of being the patsy."
Pastor Getting Ready to Celebrate Birthday Dies After He Accidentally Shoots Himself While Cleaning His Gun
A week of celebration turned to shock and despair for a North Carolina church Saturday when their beloved pastor, who they had toasted earlier in the week and was getting ready to celebrate his birthday, wedding anniversary and the founding of his church, accidentally shot himself in the chest as he cleaned his gun at home.
Marble Collegiate Church Says Donald Trump Is Not an Active Member
The historic Marble Collegiate Church on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, New York where leading 2016 GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump told reporters Thursday that he is a member, said Friday that the billionaire real estate mogul is not an active member.
Ben Carson: There's No 'War on Women' but a 'War on What's Inside of Women'
Retired neurosurgeon and 2016 GOP presidential candidate Ben Carson ripped into the notion that there is a "war on women" in America when he declared in a rousing address at a campaign event in Little Rock, Arkansas Thursday that there is no "war on women" but there may be one on "what's inside of women."
Paul Tripp Says Billy Graham's Grandson Tullian Tchividjian's Divorce Is Necessary Because Marriage Is 'Irreparably Broken'
A week after Billy Graham's grandson, Tullian Tchividjian, filed for divorce from his wife, Kim, the former pastor's counselor Paul Tripp, who says he has been working with the couple for the past six months, said Wednesday that the marriage could not be saved because it had been "irreparably broken" because there was no longer any trust between the couple.
Former Highest Ranking American in Vatican, Cardinal William Joseph Levada, Arrested for Drunken Driving
Cardinal William Joseph Levada, once the highest-ranking American official at the Vatican, was arrested last Thursday in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, for drunken driving and is now set to respond to the charge in court next month.
Porn Star Claims Josh Duggar Had Sex With Her Twice While Wife Was Pregnant; Family Says He's in Treatment
A new report alleged Wednesday that former "19 Kids and Counting" star Josh Duggar stepped out on his wife, Anna, twice while she was pregnant with their fourth child to have "rough sex" with 28-year-old stripper and porn star Danica Dillon. His family also revealed in a statement that he has now checked himself into a treatment center.
Disgruntled Ex-Employee Vester L. Flanagan, Also Known as Bryce Williams, Suspected of Killing WDBJ7 TV Journalists
Just hours after two journalists were shot dead during a live broadcast from a strip mall in Moneta, Virginia, near Roanoke Wednesday morning, authorities revealed that the suspected shooter is a disgruntled former employee of WDBJ7-TV who also took to social media to explain his motive.
Josh Duggar's Brother-In-Law Daniel Keller Says: 'I Won't Stop Trying to Get That Pig Out of Our Family'
Daniel Keller, brother-in-law of embattled "19 Kids and Counting" star Josh Duggar, called him a "pig" Monday and declared he won't stop trying to get him out of his family after recent reports on leaked data from adultery website Ashley Madison revealed that Duggar had used the website to cheat on his wife, Anna.
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