Norman Vincent Peale
Indicting Trump’s gospel of truth
By Mark Silk — August 2, 2023
(RNS) — It's at the crux of his latest indictment.
Before there was Roe: Religious debate before high court’s historic ruling on abortion
By Adelle M. Banks — December 1, 2021
(RNS) — Reports reveal blunt statements opposing the procedure, broadening definitions of what could be legalized and religious politicians’ reactions to state legislatures’ debates over the controversial procedure.
Why Trump, the prosperity gospel president, can’t be honest about COVID-19
By Bob Smietana — October 5, 2020
(RNS) — Trump thinks repeating positive thoughts about his health, wealth or political situation will cause everything to turn out for the best.
Donald Trump’s twisted interpretation of ‘The Power of Positive Thinking’ is killing Americans
By Jana Riess — September 18, 2020
Norman Vincent Peale's classic hasn’t aged particularly well, but it deserves to be remembered more fondly than Trump’s denial of reality ensures it will be.
The president, the pandemic and the limits of positive thinking
By Mark Mulder and Gerardo Martí — March 30, 2020
(RNS) — With his false claims and dismissive tweets about COVID-19, President Trump does not (merely) misrepresent reality; he engages positive thinking in hopes of changing it.
It’s Norman Vincent Peale’s America
By Stephen Mansfield — April 8, 2019
(RNS) — His vision is echoed in the mystical certainties of figures like Oprah Winfrey. Even the Trump presidency is confirmation that our country is now Peale’s America.
Author of books on presidents’ faith says Trump misunderstands evangelicals
By Adelle M. Banks — January 19, 2018
WASHINGTON (RNS) — Stephen Mansfield says Trump has captured the 'fundamental gripes' of evangelicals but misunderstands just how divided they are these days.
What is wrong with white Christians?
By John Gehring — August 10, 2017
(RNS) — Too many white Christians sacrifice the gospel’s radical solidarity with the poor and oppressed with comfortable, self-serving ideologies, writes John Gehring.
Donald Trump’s ‘God whisperer’ preaches the prosperity gospel to black worshippers
By Yonat Shimron — November 10, 2016
DURHAM, N.C. (RNS) If Paula White becomes a kind of Billy Graham to the Trump administration, she will have to balance that role with the apolitical message of the prosperity gospel that aims to cross racial and political lines.
Trump’s theology: More Peale than Nietzsche
By Mark Silk — July 5, 2016
The gospel of success is as American as apple pie.
The minister who taught Donald Trump to ‘think positive’
By Mitch Horowitz — June 3, 2016
(RNS) The decades-old critique of Norman Vincent Peale has never gotten it quite right.
Trump’s religion and its popular appeal
By Mark Silk — June 1, 2016
The gospel of American Mind Cure that he learned from Norman Vincent Peale.
5 faith facts about Donald Trump: A Presbyterian who collects Bibles
By Kimberly Winston — January 31, 2016
(RNS) His late and awkward efforts to draw in conservative Christian votes might still work for him when the primaries get rolling.
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