The Progress of Christ in Commercial America: A Review of Chris Lehmann’s The Money Cult
At 400 pages, Chris Lehmann’s The Money Cult: Capitalism, Christianity, and the Unmaking of the American…
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How Herbalife’s Gospel of Health and Wealth Fuels a Billion-Dollar Deception
If Whole Foods and Joel Osteen got together and had a child, it would probably…
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Wrestling and Religion: We Know It’s Fake and We Don’t Care
Last week, filmmaker Max Landis posted a wildly popular digital short on YouTube entitled Wrestling…
Read MoreDid the Pope Embrace the Prosperity Gospel?
Late last month, Pope Francis met with charismatic Christian and Pentecostal leaders at the Vatican,…
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Kenneth Copeland’s Protectors
How does the godfather of the prosperity gospel keep getting away with it?
Read MoreThe Gospel of (and for) E.W. Jackson
Virginia’s candidate for Lt. Gov. preaches self-help politics and help-himself theology.
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Scope Bacon, Twttr Hoaxes & Joel Osteen’s Big Reveal
In the wake of a series of high-profile April Fool’s pranks and a hoax at the expense of mega-preacher Joel Osteen, the question remains: what makes us believe in bacon-flavored mouthwash, a Martian invasion, or the renunciation of faith by one of the world’s most famous Christians?
Read MoreProsperity Gospel and Foreclosure
A megachurch collapses under the Word of Faith doctrine.
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Electionpocalypse, Part I (Christianity)
As Election Day approaches, the most craven, partisan, dire (and dumb) religious appeals begin to surface.
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Mitt Romney’s Prosperity Gospel
Mitt Romney’s endorsement by various televangelists obscures the more important ways in which the candidate himself now projects the essence of televangelism.
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