televangelism

Memo notes “very high level of distrust between churches and religious organizations and the government.”

Trinity Foundation’s Ole Anthony says ECFA lacks “teeth” for enforcement.

A feminist blogger launches a cyber-tent-revival.

Is Glenn Beck the new religious right?

Beck reinvents himself.

Televangelism is not the sole domain of the white religious right. In his new book, Jonathan Walton looks at the cultural creativity and impact of black religious broadcasting.

Famous for his use of TV to spread the message, Oral Roberts—friend of Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben Gurion—helped to popularize the notion that the newly founded State of Israel was an indication that God still acts in history and that events prophesied in the bible were at hand.

Oral Roberts had a passion for the dramatic, but what looked extemporaneous was well-rehearsed. His religious showmanship? Impeccable.

Before there was Falwell, Robertson, Bakker, or the Crouches, there was Oral Roberts, the iconoclastic pioneer of televangelism.

In this chronicle of mutations within the Pentecostal movement, we learn to distinguish among the Prosperity Gospel, Word of Faith, and New Apostolic Movements—and we learn why it matters.