
What’s Wrong with the Controversial Businessweek “Mormon Money” Cover?
Offensive, juvenile, or on-point?
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Read MoreIn 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 MoreWhy am I not surpised?
Read MoreLong’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 MoreGrassley says “self-correction can be more effective than government action.”
Read MoreMemo notes “very high level of distrust between churches and religious organizations and the government.”
Read MoreThe unknown history of “Jesus Walks.”
Read MoreBoxer’s wife obtains temporary restraining order.
Read MoreIn 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.
Read MoreGiven 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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