HomeTagged ‘Joel Osteen’
Jul 31, 2009
In Debate
If I could be like Ike…
Reverend Ike is dead at 74.
If the only Ike you’ve heard of is that bald guy from the ’50s — or, perhaps, a certain adopted baby who lives in South Park, Colorado — consider adding this new one to your memory bank. Based out of the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City, Rev. Ike [...]
Jul 22, 2009
In Debate
Obama’s fruitless evangelical outreach?
Over at Religion Dispatches, Matthew Avery Sutton argues that President Obama’s entreaties to evangelicals will inevitably fall flat because the conservative Christian movement is “obsessed with the apocalypse” and bound to think Obama is the Antichrist.
The vast majority of American evangelicals interpret the most obscure books of the Bible (Daniel, Ezekiel, and Revelation) in a [...]