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December 2024

December 27, 2024

Words of the Year 2024

English Dictionaries have the custom of proclaiming a "word of the year," new words or...

September 2023

September 15, 2023

Most Protestants Believe in the Prosperity Gospel

A study from the Baptist research group Lifeway has found that most Protestants, both evangelical...

January 2021

January 19, 2021

Belief and Blessedness

Roman Catholics call the mother of Jesus "the Blessed Virgin Mary," and rightly so. Scripture...

October 2020

October 30, 2020

Reforming the Church around the Gospel

Reformation Day is about "re-forming" the Church; that is, to return to its "substantial form"...

August 2018

August 15, 2018

How Pervasive Is the Prosperity Gospel?

One of the most prominent heresies of contemporary Christianity is the prosperity gospel, which teaches...

September 2017

September 22, 2017

The Prosperity Gospel vs. the Theology of the Cross

Lutheran theology is pretty much the opposite of the Prosperity Gospel.

January 2017

January 17, 2017

Who will pray at Trump’s inauguration

The six religious leaders who will offer prayers at Donald Trump's inauguration have been announced....

January 12, 2017

Trump and the prosperity gospel

Giving the opening prayer at Donald Trump's inauguration will be Paula White, a megachurch "pastor"...

August 2016

August 08, 2016

Clinton’s social gospel vs. Trump’s prosperity gospel

Bobby Ross brings together some religious reporting on both candidates and gives us one of...

March 2016

March 22, 2016

Trump’s pastor was Norman Vincent Peale

When Donald Trump was growing up, his parents would take him to the church pastored...

August 2015

August 31, 2015

Donald Trump to meet with Prosperity Gospel preachers

Donald Trump will be meeting with a "select" group of evangelical pastors in an event...

June 2015

June 10, 2015

Imaginary Yelp reviews from famous theologians

What might Martin Luther, John Calvin, John Wesley, Charles Spurgeon, Charles Finney, Billy Graham, John...

September 2014

September 04, 2014

Hans Fiene takes down the Osteens

You may know of Pastor Hans Fiene from his uproariously funny and theologically profound Lutheran...

April 2012

April 13, 2012

Scandals at the biggest Christian TV network

Christianity has a presence on television. Unfortunately, its presence come from Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN),...

December 2010

December 30, 2010

Top religious developments of 2010

What do you think were the major developments in the world of religion for 2010? ...

December 10, 2009

Heresy in the Prosperity Gospel Movement

To add to this week's posts on the Prosperity Gospel. . . .There is a...

December 09, 2009

The Prosperity Gospel and the Megachurches

In her article Did Christianity Cause the Crash? - The Atlantic (December 2009), Hanna Rosin...

December 08, 2009

Those Christians caused the economy to crash!

Throughout history, societies facing a crisis have blamed unpopular minority groups, turning them into scapegoats....