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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Born-again Congresswoman Lauren Boebert tells wives to chase after God and husbands will follow
Born-again Christian Congresswoman Lauren Boebert who said she prayed to God for years before her husband Jayson Boebert, joined her in the church told a group of Christian women in a recent sermon that if they chase after God their husbands will chase after them too.
In outgoing sermon, Ed Litton challenges Southern Baptists to show compassion
Ed Litton, the outgoing president of the Southern Baptist Convention, challenged members of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination Tuesday to show compassion to the diverse communities in which they live to better minister to people who need them the most.
Megachurch reveals Bruxy Cavey wasn’t only pastor involved in sexual misconduct, cites 38 cases
The Meeting House, one of Canada's largest megachurches, has revealed that its former teaching pastor, Bruxy Cavey, who was recently arrested and charged with sexual assault of a former parishioner, was not the only pastor to engage in sexual misconduct.
Voddie Baucham loses bid to become president of SBC Pastor’s Conference by 82 votes
Voddie Baucham, a fierce opponent of critical race theory and a beloved preacher, particularly among the more conservative wing of the Southern Baptist Convention, lost his bid to become the next president of the Pastor’s Conference to a relatively unknown, first-time North Carolina pastor after a tightly contested voting session during the denomination’s annual meeting Monday.
Rick Warren’s Saddleback successor triggers ‘shock’ and ‘fear’ amid questions over leadership
The selection of Andy Wood and his wife Stacie to succeed Rick and Kay Warren as leaders of the California-based Saddleback Church has triggered "shock" and "fear" in some who have worked with Wood over concerns over what they characterize as leadership abuse.
Pastor thanks God for ‘blessing’ after suspect in son's murder is arrested
Darrell Boyce, a Texas pastor and anti-violence activist, openly praised God for "such a blessing" Friday after law enforcement officials announced the arrest of a suspect in the March 31 murder of his 19-year-old son in a parking lot.
Black church calls police after ‘suspicious’ white man visits during service
On high alert after multiple mass shootings in recent weeks, officials at Fellowship Bible Baptist Church, a predominantly black congregation in Warner Robins, Georgia, called police after a “suspicious” white man visited during a service last week.
Guidepost Solutions’ LGBT pride tweet sparks uproar in SBC
Guidepost Solutions, the investigative firm that recently produced a report on how the Southern Baptist Convention’s leadership mishandled sexual abuse allegations, is coming under fire from high-profile leaders in the denomination over a tweet supporting LGBT pride.
Americans prefer churches with names that are nondenominational: study
In continuation of a cultural shift researchers have previously documented as a growing rejection of organized religion, a new study from Lifeway Research shows Americans are least likely to dismiss churches branded as nondenominational.
Ex-SBC president suspended by First Baptist Church Woodstock after sexual assault allegation
Former Southern Baptist Convention President Johnny Hunt has been formally suspended as pastor emeritus at First Baptist Church Woodstock in Georgia after an investigation deemed credible allegations that he sexually assaulted a younger pastor's wife several years ago.
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