What’s Wrong with the Controversial Businessweek “Mormon Money” Cover?
Offensive, juvenile, or on-point?
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Ross Douthat’s Rosy Old-Time Religion
In his latest the Times’ conservative Wunderkind Ross Douthat attempts to explain the current crisis as the result of our nation’s departure from orthodoxy. An honest look at the history of orthodoxy and he might see a past rife with the sin and brutality, enforced less by faith than by coercion.
Read MoreProsperity Preacher Creflo Dollar Arrested for Allegedly Assaulting Daughter
Why am I not surpised?
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Open Letter to Creflo Dollar
Long’s case was not simply, as you suggest, a “wreck” or a car “accident,” but a case of DUI: Driving/Pastoring under the influence of unchecked power and accountability. This continues to be a historic problem with commercial celebrity preachers, and given your status and peer group, I’m sure you know this all too well.
Read MoreSenator Punts Televangelist Inquiry for “Self-Reform Within the Community”
Grassley says “self-correction can be more effective than government action.”
Read MoreGrassley Staff Memo on Televangelists Makes Clear Religious Right Opposition to Government Oversight
Memo notes “very high level of distrust between churches and religious organizations and the government.”
Read MoreKanye West’s Critique of Prosperity Preaching
The unknown history of “Jesus Walks.”
Read MoreEvander Holyfield Allegedly Beats Wife. Reason? Tithing.
Boxer’s wife obtains temporary restraining order.
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Heresy, Bad Taste, or Capitalist Adventure: Is it Still Pentecostalism?
In this chronicle of mutations within the Pentecostal movement, we learn to distinguish among the Prosperity Gospel, Word of Faith, and New Apostolic Movements—and we learn why it matters.
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Prosperity, Spiritual Warfare, and the “On-Demand” God
Given that so many powerful Pentecostals and Charismatics, like Senator John Ensign and Sarah Palin, are embroiled in high-profile scandals, one might expect to hear more about the movements that unite them. Anthea Butler, a leading scholar on Pentecostalism and American religious history, traces the various movements and their theologies of wealth, healing, and dominion.
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