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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It’s ‘hellish doctrine’ to believe ‘God wants you to be happy, never suffer': Pastor Kent Christmas
Founding pastor of Regeneration Nashville, Kent Christmas, has slammed the idea that God wants Christians to be happy and “never suffer” as a “hellish doctrine” being driven by lazy Christians.
Well-being of pastors drops significantly, especially in having true friends: study
In key measures of well-being such as physical, mental, emotional, and overall health pastors have suffered significant declines over the last seven years, especially when it comes to having true friends, a new report from Barna Research shows.
NYC Mayor Eric Adams says God told him to talk about faith in public
Calling himself “the perfectly imperfect child of God that shows the power of God,” New York City Mayor Eric Adams said in a fiery Father’s Day speech on Sunday that he won’t stop talking about God and the importance of faith in society, despite attacks from the media about it, because God told him to do it.
Ohio father executes 3 young sons, confesses he planned killings for months
While his father believes he just “snapped,” authorities say 32-year-old Chad Doerman confessed he planned for months before he lined up his three young sons at his home in Clermont County, Ohio, last Thursday and shot them execution style with a rifle three days before Father’s Day.
How sexting destroyed a young megachurch pastor’s marriage and ministry
In a recent presentation at the Bob Russell Ministries Mentoring Retreat, Patrick Garcia, a former lead pastor at the 7,000-member Crossroads Christian Church and The Hills Church in Indiana, compared his fall out of ministry to a distracted truck driver who was involved in a deadly crash.
How a cancer treatment hospital in Mexico is mixing faith, food and science to save lives
At the Oasis of Hope Hospital located about seven miles away from the San Ysidro border crossing in San Diego, California, patients who say they have been blessed by the work of the alternative cancer treatment clinic are singing praises to both God and the medical team helping to keep them alive.
Christian missionary sentenced to 25 years for allegedly infecting preschooler with STD
Jordan Webb, a married Christian missionary and father from Iowa convicted of sexual abuse in April after authorities presented circumstantial evidence that he likely infected a preschooler with gonorrhea, has been sentenced to 25 years in prison although he insists he is innocent.
Hillsong Church founder Brian Houston covered up father’s abuse of boy: prosecutor
Embattled Hillsong Church founder Brian Houston intentionally covered up his late father Frank Houston's sexual abuse of a boy and shielded him from criminal prosecution to protect the church's image and likely knew about a $10,000 payment that was made to silence the victim, a prosecutor alleged during closing arguments in an Australian court Thursday.
Many American atheists hide their unbelief due to social stigma in Christian culture: study
Many American atheists still struggling with the stigma associated with their lack of faith and often choose to hide their unbelief due to social stigma, according to a new study published by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Abigail Zwerner, teacher shot by first grader, resigns; lawyer says she was fired
The first-grade teacher in Virginia who filed a $40 million lawsuit against school administrators after she was shot by a first-grade student in January has reportedly resigned from her job. But her attorney says she was fired.