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Oral Roberts, Pioneering Televangelist, Dies

By Anthea Butler

…healing into the mainstream, helping it to become the multi-billion dollar business it is today. Before Jakes, Creflo, Bakker, and Swaggart, there was Oral. He was smoking—not cigarettes, but with the fire of the Holy Ghost. Like many Pentecostal evangelists and preachers before, Roberts’ call to ministry arrived in the midst of sickness. Not expected to survive a bout with tuberculosis, Roberts at 17 years of age heard God’s voice promising to he…

United Methodist Church Votes Against Israel Divestment

By Shalom Goldman

…n the agenda—among them the call for the church to divest from firms doing business in Israel. On Tuesday the conference voted against a motion that the church divest from three international firms that have business interests related to Israel’s military rule in the Palestinian territories: Caterpillar, Motorola Solutions, and Hewlett Packard. Two thirds of the delegates voted against the motion. On Monday May 1st, the day before the vote on Isra…

“Ex-Gay” Crusader John Smid “Apologizes” to Gays and Lesbians

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…of “redemption,” even though Smid claims to be out of the “ex-gay” making business. The new ministry also comes with an apology from Smid for his past actions: I really wanted to help the young men in our program but in some cases the design of our program caused more harm for some of these kids that it did good. I am very sorry for the ways that Refuge further wounded teens that were already in a very delicate place in life. I am grateful for th…

Paul Crouch, Architect of Prosperity Gospel Televangelism, Dead at 79

By Sarah Posner

…Best known for his controversially extravagant spending, with his wife and business partner Jan, Paul Crouch survived many a media exposé. He and his wife built their network, worth hundreds of millions of dollars, using tax-exempt donor funds, frequently, former insiders have charged, for their own enrichment. In 2004, the conservative Christian financial watchdog Ministry Watch issued a scathing report on the network, charging that its “huge cas…

The Tweets of the Christ

By Nathan Schneider

More and more, serious business is being done through Twitter, a Web site with a most unserious-sounding name. On Twitter, you tweet out a tweet, which everyone who is following your tweets can see. True to the name and its accompanying noun/verb, the site’s architecture seemingly confines it to the trivial. Every tweet must be under 140 characters (which this paragraph has already long exceeded). Even its built-in instructions emphasize triviali…

Francis Must Make Changes to Have a Real Effect

By Patricia Miller

…church and 10 percent of all Americans are former Catholics. If you were a business losing one-third of your customers, wouldn’t you want to make some changes? Sure, step one might be to put the business under new management. But that would only take you so far. At some point the management has to deliver the goods. Apart from the typos mentioned above, Gallicho pounces on my takeaway from the Pew poll that “Catholics expect Francis to do more tha…

Catholics for Choice Blasts New Proposed Contraception Coverage Rule

By Sarah Posner

…nd — it’s good that you get coverage if it all works out. The devil is in the details. But the fact that you [the Obama administration] have given that concession to the business of higher education and the business of Catholic health care, that doesn’t bode well for the future.” …

Post-Orlando, Trump Reveals His Soul

By Daniel Schultz

…here, Greg Sargent explains, is on “Trump’s personal cruelty — not just in business, but also from the perch of his newfound media dominance.” It’s also a larger critique of what Trump presents as “strength.” To Trump being strong is being willing to offend you want and brutalize anyone who hurts you. It’s the core of a philosophy that justifies torture and advocates for the killing of innocent women and children. … This ad points doesn’t touch on…

Supreme Court to Hear Hobby Lobby, Conestoga Cases

By Sarah Posner

…d be seen as a “form of evangelism,” effectively deeming them “faith-based businesses” entitled to free-exercise rights. That, Briscoe contended, “is nothing short of a radical revision of First Amendment law, as well as the law of corporations.” The stakes, then, are very high. Depending on how the Court rules, it may decide whether the precedent represented most recently by Citizens United v. FEC—that corporations have free speech rights—dictate…

Rethinking a Classic from the Conservative Contraception Canon

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…olved when one breezily pronounces upon marriage as such: “I am out of the business of trying to tell people what they should do,” Mr. Torode said. “I am out of that business for good.” Ah, but I know from my own conservative days the kind of itchy discomfort that sort of a demurral brings. Not telling people what they should do! Why, one may as well say that there’s no right and no wrong and no truth, and that it’s all just about me me me and my…