prosperity gospel
I’ll cry if I want to: Positive thinking, prosperity gospel and the vulnerability of faith
By Tara Isabella Burton — August 16, 2019
(RNS) — To be vulnerable, to be too much, feels like a failure in today's wellness culture. But we cannot positive-think our way out of the human condition.
Joshua Harris and the sexual prosperity gospel
By Katelyn Beaty — July 26, 2019
(RNS) — Some evangelicals who denounce the prosperity gospel seem to have no problem touting the purity culture that say God will reward those who wait.
Why I used to believe in the prosperity gospel like Kenneth Copeland believes
By Costi W. Hinn — June 6, 2019
(RNS) — I grew up in the prosperity gospel. I lived it, believed it and bankrolled it. Here's why people are so tempted by it.
Vatican-OK’d journal strikes out again at US evangelicals
By Nicole Winfield — July 18, 2018
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Two of Pope Francis' top communications advisers — an Italian Jesuit and an Argentine Protestant pastor — penned 'The Prosperity Gospel: Dangerous and Different' for the current issue of the Jesuit journal La Civilta Cattolica, published Wednesday.
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.
What the rise and fall of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker can teach us today
By John Wigger — August 3, 2017
(RNS) — The couple's story explains why religion remains such a persistent part of American life, and how deep and sincere faith can be entangled with money, sex and celebrity on a Hollywood scale.
Prosperity, heresy and Trump: Inauguration pastor Paula White answers her critics
By Emily McFarlan Miller — January 19, 2017
(RNS) Paula White has been called the president-elect's "God whisperer" -- as well as a heretic and prosperity gospel charlatan. She responds in this interview.
Donald Trump’s favorite televangelist
By Yonat Shimron — January 3, 2017
APOPKA, Fla. (RNS) The main thing Paula White shares with Donald Trump – apart from faith, which some in the religious community doubt – is the celebrity gene.
Singapore megachurch leaders draw jail terms in pop music fraud
By Reuters — November 20, 2015
The pastor, a voice for the prosperity gospel, divurted millions of dollars to his wife's secular singing career.
‘Megareverend’ John Oliver trolls televangelists with new tax-exempt church
By Brian Pellot — August 18, 2015
(RNS) The HBO satirist aims to shine a light on broad IRS tax exemptions for televangelists' prosperity gospel schemes.
Pope Francis meets US televangelists, and the first-ever ‘papal high-five’ follows
By Sarah Pulliam Bailey — July 9, 2014
(RNS) "The prosperity gospel seems to be fundamentally opposed to the message that Francis has been spreading. But he has shown that he’s willing to meet with just about anyone," said Michael Peppard, a professor of theology at Fordham University.
Australia’s Hillsong Church exports its influence through praise and preaching
By Sarah Pulliam Bailey — November 4, 2013
SYDNEY (RNS) Perhaps most remarkable is that a globally influential church like Hillsong could flourish at all in Australia, where in 2011 nearly a third of Australians said their religious affiliation was either ‘no religion’ or not stated.
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