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Saturday November 14, 2009
Prosperity Teaching:
America’s mainstream religious denominations used to teach the faithful that they would be rewarded in the afterlife. But over the past generation, a different strain of Christian faith has proliferated—one that promises to make believers rich in the here and now. Known as the prosperity gospel, and claiming tens of millions of adherents, it fosters risk-taking and intense material optimism. It pumped air into the housing bubble. And one year into the worst downturn since the Depression, it’s still going strong.
• In the same issue of The Atlantic: Lead us not into debt: Finance guru Dave Ramsey wins followers with a simple message: find God and lose your credit cards.
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Monday August 17, 2009
Kenneth Copeland • Prosperity Teaching:
Even in an economic downturn, preachers in the “prosperity gospel” movement are drawing sizable, adoring audiences. Their message — that if you have sufficient faith in God and the Bible and donate generously, God will multiply your offerings a hundredfold — is reassuring to many in hard times.
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Monday October 6, 2008
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Has the so-called Prosperity gospel turned its followers into some of the most willing participants — and hence, victims — of the current financial crisis?
While researching a book on black televangelism, says Jonathan Walton, a religion professor at the University of California at Riverside, he realized that Prosperity’s central promise — that God will “make a way” for poor people to enjoy the better things in life — had developed an additional, dangerous expression during the subprime-lending boom.
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Monday September 1, 2008
Benny Hinn • Prosperity Teaching:
Benny Hinn preaches a version of the prosperity gospel, which holds that God wants his followers to have financial wealth. To become prosperous, one must give money to God, who returns it multiplied.If this scam worked as advertised, Benny Hinn and others like him would be giving you money…
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Tuesday June 3, 2008
Kenneth Copeland • Prosperity Teaching:
“There’s a lot of doctrine that teaches that you’re not a good Christian unless you’re poor. But that’s not our doctrine, that’s not what we believe,” the younger Copeland told KTVT-TV.
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Thursday May 8, 2008
Prosperity Teaching • Televangelists:
Nearly two-dozen conservative Christian leaders have signed a letter to the Senate Finance Committee questioning an investigation into six large ministries that preach a gospel of prosperity.
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Tuesday April 8, 2008
Prosperity Teaching:
Prosperity ministers preach that God rewards the faithful with wealth and spiritual power. Prosperity pastors such as Bishop T.D. Jakes have become the most popular preachers in the black church. They’ve also become brands. They’ve built megachurches and business empires with the prosperity message.
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Friday December 28, 2007
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Cindy Fleenor believed the prosperity teachers. But when she sent them money, the promised returns did not materialize. Some of the con artists who commit this fraud have now come under scrutiny.
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Wednesday November 7, 2007
Prosperity Teaching • Televangelists:
Senator Charles Grassley, the ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, capped a two-year investigation on Monday by requesting financial records from six top televangelists to see whether they are helping others – or themselves. [video]
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Thursday April 5, 2007
Prosperity Teaching • Uganda:
PASTOR MOSES SOLOMON MALE is Executive Director or Arising for Christ ministry. An ardent critic of the widespread prosperity gospel where pastors ‘sell’ prayers for numerous needs, Male tells RICHARD M. KAVUMA why he wants a judicial probe into born-again churches.
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Sunday October 22, 2006
Prosperity Teaching:
Was Jesus rich? The question matters to preachers and evangelists who want you to buy into their prosperity gospel.
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Monday October 16, 2006
Prosperity Teaching:
Recently, Time magazine explored the popularity of prosperity theology, a movement that goes by various other names, too: word of faith, health and wealth or name it and claim it. I have more than a passing interest in this theology. I hold it partly responsible for my wife’s death.
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Monday September 11, 2006
Prosperity Teaching:
Editor's note: The following is a summary of this week's Time magazine cover story.
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Friday September 8, 2006
Prosperity Teaching:
Thirty-five thousand Baptists are visiting Dallas this week. They represent the nation's largest African-American organization, the National Baptist Convention.
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Wednesday November 19, 2003
Prosperity Teaching:
The end of the 1980s was a bad time for TV preachers.
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Tuesday December 17, 2002
Prosperity Teaching:
They are specially gifted and their power to make people empty their pockets at crusades has made them the most-sought after pastors
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- Does God want you to be rich?
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- Son of televangelist Kenneth Copeland defends church and preacher's spending
- Was Jesus rich?
- Believer bitter over prosperity preachings
- Benny Hinn runs lucrative operation
- Modern black church shuns Martin Luther King message in favor of prosperity gospel
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