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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Former megachurch pastor Bishop Carlton Pearson is now receiving “comfort care” as his advanced prostate cancer remains a “significant challenge” his family has announced.
Causeway Coast Vineyard pastors resign as Alan Scott, Vineyard Movement fight endures
Neil and Janet Young, the senior pastors of Causeway Coast Vineyard Church in Northern Ireland, have resigned because they no longer fully agree with a formal statement issued by the church in July alleging the church’s previous senior pastor, Alan Scott, engaged in spiritual and leadership abuse.
Half of pastors ‘very concerned’ younger Christians not supporting Church financially: study
While young adults have been found to be more generous with their time volunteering than older generations, just over half of pastors say they're “very concerned” that younger Christians don't support their local churches financially, a new study shows.
SBC President Bart Barber apologizes for filing legal brief seeking to limit liability for sex abuse
Southern Baptist Convention President Bart Barber admitted Monday that he approved joining a controversial amicus brief filed on behalf of the SBC Executive Committee, the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and Lifeway Christian Resources challenging the validity of new legislation in Kentucky that allows child sex abuse survivors to sue non-perpetrator third parties such as churches and schools retroactively.
18 victims of Maine mass shooting mourned at vigil attended by over 1,000 people
The 15 adult men, two women and 14-year-old boy killed by the mentally troubled Robert Card during a shooting spree in Lewiston, Maine, last Wednesday, were remembered at a vigil Sunday inside the Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul that attracted more than 1,000 people.
International House of Prayer founder Mike Bickle accused of sexual misconduct by multiple women
International House of Prayer Kansas City founder Mike Bickle has agreed to step away from public ministry as he is investigated for “serious allegations including sexual immorality” that have been made against him by multiple women.
SBC entities stir internal disagreement by opposing extended liability in sex abuse cases
Members of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee have expressed outrage online after learning that the committee was included in an amicus brief opposing extending liability in sex abuse cases, as no elected committee member had been consulted about the decision before it was made.
James MacDonald’s PTSD goes on trial as he seeks to avoid prison for assaulting woman
A California judge ruled Wednesday that Harvest Bible Chapel founder James MacDonald's diagnosed post-traumatic stress disorder makes him eligible for a mental health diversion program that would keep him out of prison for allegedly attacking a 59-year-old woman.
‘Being a pastor is an awful existence,’ JD Hall says a year after being removed from the pulpit
Former pastor and notorious blogger Jordan Daniel Hall, who was removed from ministry amid scandal, says being a pastor is an “awful existence” and he would never want to return to it.
At least 18 dead, dozens more injured in Maine mass shooting as suspect remains at large
At least 16 people are dead and dozens more injured after separate mass shootings at two recreational business venues in Lewiston, Maine, Wednesday as law enforcement continue a desperate manhunt for 40-year-old Robert Card who has been described as a person of interest in what could be the state’s deadliest shooting.
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