Recently several U.S. religious leaders in Christian churches have released videos on social media touting their riches or complaining about their lack of riches, while damning their congregations for ...

This is Dutch artist Rembrandt van Rijn’s depiction of the rich fool obsessed with his possessions in Luke 12:13-21. Rembrandt lived from 1606-69. (Courtesy Photo) The so-called “Prosperity Gospel” ...

(RNS) — The LDS Church doesn't teach that God wants you to be rich. But it does promote a 'Plan of Happiness' that emphasizes your very own personal flourishing. (RNS) — I’ve recently been made aware ...

President Donald Trump, who sees himself as "a preacher for the white Christian church of MAGA" is taking his "messianic" far ...

YAOUNDÈ, Cameroon – A leading African archbishop has said that an historical tendency to regard Christianity as the “white man’s God,” and the current rise of a “prosperity Gospel” conflating ...

The message flickered into Cindy Fleenor's living room each night: Be faithful in how you live and how you give, the television preachers said, and God will shower you with material riches. And so the ...

But given that the story of the scriptures is a story of a continuous exodus - movement from slavery to freedom, from darkness to light, from mortality to immortality, from the cross to the ...

I've been thinking about this question ever since I ran across Hanna Rosin's article on the topic in The Atlantic. (Truth be told, I first heard of Rosin's article in a much briefer synopsis of it by ...

The Presidential Envoy for Interfaith and Ecumenical Relations, Elvis Afriyie-Ankrah, has called on the Church to preach a ...

Everyone wants to prosper. Why then is the prosperity gospel badly talked about? Several factors contribute to this irony. It is generally accepted that it is immoral to create wealth at the expense ...