Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson believes that at the end of each year God tells him what’s going to happen the next year, and so he goes on TV and makes his “God-ordained” predictions.  He claims that he has a good record in the percentage of his predictions that come true, but there have been some [...]

2012?  Mayan calendar?  Nope!  “That date has not one stitch of biblical authority,” Harold Camping says from the Oakland office where he runs Family Radio, an evangelical station that reaches listeners around the world. “It’s like a fairy tale.”  The real date for the end of times, he says, is in 2011. Camping, 88, has [...]

Would you EVER attend a church that does this? When the Rev. Tom Eggebeen took over as interim pastor at Covenant Presbyterian Church three years ago, he looked around and knew it needed a jump start. Most of his worshippers were in their 60s and attendance had bottomed out and the once-vibrant church. So Eggebeen [...]

Jim Stevens said he’s not particularly religious and is clueless about why an image resembling Jesus Christ keeps appearing on his pick-up. Stevens said nearly every morning, an image that looks to him like the face of Jesus Christ has appeared in the condensation on the driver’s side window of his Isuzu truck. Stevens said [...]

I’ve heard of lots of corny gimmicks designed to get people into church, but this one tops them all.  At Lighthouse Church of All Nations near Chicago, if a lucky — or “blessed and highly favored” — churchgoer is in the right seat, they can win a cash prize.  At each of the three Sunday [...]

Onstage in Fort Worth, Texas before thousands of believers weighed down by debt and economic insecurity, Kenneth and Gloria Copeland and their all-star lineup of “prosperity gospel” preachers delighted the crowd with anecdotes about the luxurious lives they had attained by following the Word of God.  Private airplanes and boats. A motorcycle sent by an [...]

Hate the sin.  Love the sinner. I’m really starting to hate this saying.  It’s a phrase that has been used repeatedly by Christians over the years who are trying to figure out how to deal with people who live like hell.  For the most part, the Christian world has endorsed it, but I for one, [...]