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Ew Kenyon and the Twelve
CHRISTIAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE PO Box 8500, Charlotte, NC 28271 Feature Article: JAW755-1 WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE FAITH MOVEMENT (PART ONE): E. W. KENYON AND THE TWELVE APOSTLES OF ANOTHER GOSPEL by Hank Hanegraaff This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 15, number 3 (1993). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org SYNOPSIS What's wrong with the "Faith" movement? Its leaders include many of the most popular television evangelists. Its adherents compose a large percentage of charismatic evangelical Christians. Its emphases on faith, the authority of the believer, and the absolute veracity of Scripture could appear to be just what today's church needs. And yet, I am convinced that this movement poses one of the greatest contemporary threats to orthodox Christianity from within. Through it, cultic theology is being increasingly accepted as true Christianity. This article will highlight several serious problems with the Faith movement by providing an overview of its major sources and leaders. Part Two will focus on the movement's doctrinal deviations as represented by one of its leading proponents.1 ITS DEBT TO NEW THOUGHT It is important to note at the outset that the bulk of Faith theology can be traced directly to the cultic teachings of New Thought metaphysics. Thus, much of the theology of the Faith movement can also be found in such clearly pseudo-Christian cults as Religious Science, Christian Science, and the Unity School of Christianity. Over a -
The BG News September 16, 1997
Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 9-16-1997 The BG News September 16, 1997 Bowling Green State University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news Recommended Citation Bowling Green State University, "The BG News September 16, 1997" (1997). BG News (Student Newspaper). 6205. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/6205 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the University Publications at ScholarWorks@BGSU. It has been accepted for inclusion in BG News (Student Newspaper) by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@BGSU. Directory SPORTS 6 OPINION 2 TODAY *<™^^™s Switchboard 372-2601 Tom searches for the elusive Lunatic Fringe Classified Ads 372-6977 Display Ads 372-2605 Volleyball Editorial 372-6966 Sports 372-2602 Falcons return from 1 -3 4 Entertainment 372-2603 3 California trip with heads NATION 4 Story Idea? Give us a call hazy weekdays from I p/n. lo 5 pm., or held high National diet drugs recalled e-mail: "[email protected]" High 83 Low: 57 TUESDAY September 16,1997 Volume 84, Issue 14 The BG News Bowling Green, Ohio "Serving the Bowling Green community for over 75 years # Lecture series committed to cultural topics □ The fourth annual La during the 1970s. Francisco CabaniUas, assistant Mesa Oblicua Lecture professor in Romance Lan- Series promotes multi- guages, said he will discuss the cultural diversity history of salsa music, how it draws from different Latin through education, dia- American traditions and how it logue and interaction. -
On Faith-Healing New Secular Humanist Centers?
New Secular More on Humanist Faith-Healing Centers? James Randi Paul Kurtz Gerald Larue Vern Bullough Henry Gordon Bob Wisne David Alexander Faith-healer Robert Roberts Also: Is Goldilocks Dangerous? • Pornography • The Supreme Court • Southern Baptists • Protestantism, Catholicism, and Unbelief in France 1n Its Tree _I FALL 1986, VOL. 6, NO. 4 ISSN 0272-0701 Contents 3 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 17 BIBLICAL SCORECARD 62 CLASSIFIED 12 ON THE BARRICADES 60 IN THE NAME OF GOD 6 EDITORIALS Is Goldilocks Dangerous? Paul Kurtz / Pornography, Censorship, and Freedom, Paul Kurtz I Reagan's Judiciary, Ronald A. Lindsay / Is Secularism Neutral? Richard J. Burke / Southern Baptists Betray Heritage, Robert S. Alley / The Holy-Rolling of America, Frank Johnson 14 HUMANIST CENTERS New Secular Humanist Centers, Paul Kurtz / The Need for Friendship Centers, Vern L. Bullough / Toward New Humanist Organizations, Bob Wisne THE EVIDENCE AGAINST REINCARNATION 18 Are Past-Life Regressions Evidence for Reincarnation? Melvin Harris 24 The Case Against Reincarnation (Part 1) Paul Edwards BELIEF AND UNBELIEF WORLDWIDE 35 Protestantism, Catholicism, and Unbelief in Present-Day France Jean Boussinesq MORE ON FAITH-HEALING 46 CS ER's Investigation Gerald A. Larue 46 An Answer to Peter Popoff James Randi 48 Popoff's TV Empire Declines .. David Alexander 49 Richard Roberts's Healing Crusade Henry Gordon IS SECULAR HUMANISM A RELIGION? 52 A Response to My Critics Paul Beattie 53 Diminishing Returns Joseph Fletcher 54 On Definition-Mongering Paul Kurtz BOOKS 55 The Other World of Shirley MacLaine Ring Lardner, Jr. 57 Saintly Starvation Bonnie Bullough VIEWPOINTS 58 Papal Pronouncements Delos B. McKown 59 Yahweh: A Morally Retarded God William Harwood Editor: Paul Kurtz Associate Editors: Doris Doyle, Steven L. -
Special Report: Tilton's Tottering TV Empire
STATEMENT DT030 Special Report: Tilton’s Tottering TV Empire Only months ago Robert Tilton, “Pastor to America,” was a rising star in the crowded con stellation of prosperity-preaching televangelists. His bustling Word of Faith Family Church in a Dallas suburb boasted 8,000 members and local real estate appraised at over $40 million. Tilton’s Success-N-Life TV show ranked twelfth in the national Arbitron ratings for syndicated religious television programs, viewed by an estimated 199,000 households — and his cable audience was larger still. Televangelist watcher Ole Anthony calls him “the biggest TV preacher ever.” At his peak Tilton reportedly bought more than 5,000 hours of air time per month in all 235 U.S. markets and maintained a staff of over 800, many just to answer phones and take names and addresses 24 hours a day. Most impressive of all was the way “Pastor Bob” made the cash roll in. Using prepos terous scriptural pretexts, Tilton bullied and cajoled his followers into making “vows of faith” (typically $1,000) to get their miracle — even if they didn’t have the money. “Oh, I know you probably don’t have a thousand dollars, but vow it.” (In a 1990 inter view he admitted drawing inspiration for his approach from TV real-estate pitchman Dave Del Dotto’s “infomercials.”) In the process Tilton built a mailing list of several million current and potential donors, pulling in around 10,000 letters each business day and between $65 -$l00 million a year, tax- free. According to ABC’s Prime Time Live, “Although the ministry is a corporation, Tilton personally has access to all its wealth, almost as if it were a sole proprietorship.” The minister and his wife, Marte, reportedly earn over $1 mil lion per year. -
Report of the 2020 Nominations Committee
Updated 3.12.20 REPORT OF THE 2020 NOMINATIONS COMMITTEE To Members of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants: Pursuant to Sections 3.6.2.1 and 6.1.5 of the bylaws, the following report of the Nominations Committee is submitted. Michael J. Buddendeck General Counsel & Secretary December 18, 2021 The Nominations Committee hereby proposes the following nominees as Officers, members of the AICPA/Public Accounting Professional Unit Board of Directors, members of AICPA Council-at- Large, elected members of AICPA Council, members of the AICPA Joint Trial Board and members of the AICPA Peer Review Board. Upon election, the candidates will serve in the positions indicated from the Spring Council Meeting, May 24-26, 2021 in Washington, DC until the Spring Council Meeting in 2022, 2023 or 2024 as indicated in the report, or until their successors shall be elected: Chairman of the Board: The Committee affirmed the nomination of the following as Chairman of the Board of the Institute for 2021-2022: Bill Pirolli, Rhode Island Vice Chairman of the Board: The Committee nominated the following as Vice Chairman of the Board of the Institute for 2021-2022: Anoop N. Mehta, Maryland Board of Directors: The Committee nominated the following for election as members of the Board of Directors for three-year terms ending in 2024: Jonyce Bullock, Utah Ebonie Jackson, Ohio Beth Leonard, Minnesota Andrew (Andy) Mintzer, California Matt Snow, North Carolina Council Members-At-Large: The Committee nominated the following as Council Members-at- Large for three-year terms ending in 2024: Angela Ho, New Jersey 1 Updated 3.12.20 Brent Forbush, Nevada Jackson Day, New York Jessica McClain, Maryland Melisa Galasso, North Carolina Stephen Mankowski, Pennsylvania Wallace Gregory, South Carolina The Committee will nominate the Officers, Board of Directors and Council Members-at- Large at the Spring Council Meeting, May 24-26, 2021 in Washington, DC. -
Psychic’ Sally Morgan Scuffles with Toward a Cognitive Psychology U.K
Science & Skepticism | Randi’s Escape Part II | Martin Gardner | Monster Catfish? | Trent UFO Photos the Magazine for Science and Reason Vol. 39 No. 1 | January/February 2015 Why the Supernatural? Why Conspiracy Ideas? Modern Geocentrism: Pseudoscience in Astronomy Flaw and Order: Criminal Profiling Sylvia Browne’s Art and Science FBI File More Witch Hunt Murders INTRODUCTORY PRICE U.S. and Canada $4.95 Published by the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry C I Ronald A. Lindsay, President and CEO Massimo Polidoro, Research Fellow Bar ry Karr, Ex ec u tive Di rect or Benjamin Radford, Research Fellow Joe Nickell, Senior Research Fellow Richard Wiseman, Research Fellow www.csicop.org James E. Al cock*, psy chol o gist, York Univ., Tor on to David H. Gorski, cancer surgeon and re searcher at Astronomy and director of the Hopkins Mar cia An gell, MD, former ed i tor-in-chief, Barbara Ann Kar manos Cancer Institute and chief Observatory, Williams College New Eng land Jour nal of Med i cine of breast surgery section, Wayne State University John Pau los, math e ma ti cian, Tem ple Univ. School of Medicine. Kimball Atwood IV, MD, physician; author; Clifford A. Pickover, scientist, au thor, editor, Newton, MA Wendy M. Grossman, writer; founder and first editor, IBM T.J. Watson Re search Center. Steph en Bar rett, MD, psy chi a trist; au thor; con sum er The Skeptic magazine (UK) Massimo Pigliucci, professor of philosophy, ad vo cate, Al len town, PA Sus an Haack, Coop er Sen ior Schol ar in Arts and City Univ. -
Gardner on Exorcisms • Creationism and 'Rare Earth' • When Scientific Evidence Is the Enemy
GARDNER ON EXORCISMS • CREATIONISM AND 'RARE EARTH' • WHEN SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE IS THE ENEMY THE MAGAZINE FOR SCIENCE AND REASON Volume 25, No. 6 • November/December 2001 THE COMMITTEE FOR THE SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION OF CLAIMS OF THE PARANORMAL AT THE CENTER FOR INQUIRY-INTERNATIONAL (ADJACENT TO THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO) • AN INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION Paul Kurtz, Chairman; professor emeritus of philosophy. State University of New York at Buffalo Barry Karr, Executive Director Joe Nickell, Research Fellow Massimo Polidoro, Research Fellow Richard Wiseman, Research Fellow Lee Nisbet, Special Projects Director FELLOWS James E. Alcock,* psychologist. York Univ., Susan Haack, Cooper Senior Scholar in Arts Loren Pankratz, psychologist. Oregon Health Toronto and Sciences, prof, of philosophy. University Sciences Univ. Jerry Andrus, magician and inventor, Albany, of Miami John Paulos, mathematician. Temple Univ. Oregon C. E. M. Hansel, psychologist. Univ. of Wales Steven Pinker, cognitive scientist. MIT Marcia Angell, M.D.. former editor-in-chief, Al Hibbs, scientist. Jet Propulsion Laboratory Massimo Polidoro, science writer, author, New England Journal of Medicine Douglas Hofstadter, professor of human under executive director CICAP, Italy Robert A. Baker, psychologist. Univ. of standing and cognitive science, Indiana Univ. Milton Rosenberg, psychologist, Univ. of Kentucky Gerald Holton, Mallinckrodt Professor of Chicago Stephen Barrett M.D., psychiatrist, author, Physics and professor of history of science. Wallace Sampson, M.D., clinical professor of consumer advocate, Allentown, Pa. Harvard Univ. Barry Beyerstein,* biopsychologist. Simon Ray Hyman,* psychologist. Univ. of Oregon medicine, Stanford Univ., editor. Scientific Fraser Univ.. Vancouver, B.C., Canada Leon Jaroff, sciences editor emeritus, Time Review of Alternative Medicine Irving Biederman, psychologist Univ. -
COLLECTION 0076: Papers of Alex V. Bills, 1906-1999
Fuller Theological Seminary Digital Commons @ Fuller List of Archival Collections Archives and Special Collections 2018 COLLECTION 0076: Papers of Alex V. BIlls, 1906-1999 Fuller Seminary Archives and Special Collections Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.fuller.edu/findingaids Part of the Christian Denominations and Sects Commons, and the Missions and World Christianity Commons Recommended Citation Fuller Seminary Archives and Special Collections, "COLLECTION 0076: Papers of Alex V. BIlls, 1906-1999" (2018). List of Archival Collections. 29. https://digitalcommons.fuller.edu/findingaids/29 This Finding Aid is brought to you for free and open access by the Archives and Special Collections at Digital Commons @ Fuller. It has been accepted for inclusion in List of Archival Collections by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Fuller. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Archives, Rare Books and Special Collections David Allan Hubbard Library Fuller Theological Seminary COLLECTION 76: Papers of Alex V. Bills, 1906-1999 Table of Contents Administrative Information ..........................................................................................................2 Biography ........................................................................................................................................3 Scope and Content ..........................................................................................................................4 Arrangement ...................................................................................................................................5 -
Oh No, Ross and Carrie! Theme Song” by Brian Keith Dalton
00:00:00 Music Music “Oh No, Ross and Carrie! Theme Song” by Brian Keith Dalton. A jaunty, upbeat instrumental. 00:00:08 Ross Host Hello, and welcome to Oh No, Ross and Carrie!, the show where we Blocher don’t just report on fringe science, spirituality, and claims of the paranormal, no, we take part ourselves. 00:00:17 Carrie Host Yup, when they make the claims, we show up so you don’t have to. Poppy I’m Carrie Poppy. 00:00:20 Ross Host And I’m Ross Blocher, and we are joined with two exciting guests today. We have Susan Gerbic— 00:00:25 Susan Guest Yay! Gerbic 00:00:26 Ross Host —and Mark Edward. 00:00:27 Mark Guest Hey. Edward 00:00:28 Ross Host Welcome, and welcome back, Mark. 00:00:29 Mark Guest Thank you. It’s been awhile. 00:00:30 Ross Host I had to look this up. Our thirteenth episode was an interview with you. 00:00:34 Susan Guest Carrie said this house was weird— 00:00:35 Mark Guest Blissfully creepy, which I really liked. [Carrie laughs.] 00:00:38 Susan Guest He’s bringing it to my house in Salinas now. My house is becoming blissfully creepy, it’s great. 00:00:43 Ross Host Wonderful. 00:00:44 Carrie Host So you’re moving in. You’re shacking up. 00:00:46 Mark Guest Yeah, we’re shacking up. 00:00:47 Susan Guest It’s only been ten years. 00:00:48 Mark Guest After ten years, you know. -
Pentecostal Profits: the Prosperity Gospel in the Global South
University of Lethbridge Research Repository OPUS http://opus.uleth.ca Theses Arts and Science, Faculty of 2014 Pentecostal profits: the prosperity gospel in the global south MacTavish, Ron Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of Religious Studies, 2014 http://hdl.handle.net/10133/3527 Downloaded from University of Lethbridge Research Repository, OPUS PENTECOSTAL PROFITS: THE PROSPERITY GOSPEL IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH Ron MacTavish B.A. History, University of Alberta, 1973 B.Ed. (with distinction), University of Alberta, 1974 B.A. (with great distinction), University of Lethbridge, 2012 A Thesis Submitted to the School of Graduate Studies Of the University of Lethbridge In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree MASTER OF ARTS Religious Studies University of Lethbridge LETHBRIDGE, ALBERTA, CANADA © Ron MacTavish, 2014 PENTECOSTAL PROFITS: THE PROSPERITY GOSPEL IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH RON MACTAVISH Approved: * (Print Name) (Signature) (Rank) (Highest Date Degree) _______________________ ____________________ ________ _______ ________ * Supervisor _______________________ ____________________ ________ _______ ________ * Thesis Examination Committee Member __________________________ _____________________ ________ ________ ________ * Thesis Examination Committee Member __________________________ _____________________ ________ ________ ________ * Thesis Examination Committee Member __________________________ _____________________ ________ ________ ________ * Thesis Examination Committee Member __________________________ _____________________ _________ ________ ________ * Chair, Thesis Examination Committee Abstract: This study explores the link between the development of the so-called prosperity gospel and the explosive growth of Pentecostalism in the Global South. It examines the evolution of the prosperity gospel as a strand of Pentecostalism in its country of origin, the United States. It then investigates the dramatic acceptance of the theology in selected pockets of the Pacific Rim, Latin America and Africa. -
SFCHS HONOR ROLL Memorial Day Reunion Held
Obituaries Thursday, June 8, 2006 Saint Francis Herald 5 Robert Lee Schlittenhardt God looked around six grandchildren and two sisters, March 10, 1940 - May 22, 2006 His garden Esther Walter and Pearline Rath. Bob was born And he found an empty place. She was preceded in death by her March 10, 1940, He looked down upon the earth son, Robert Tilton. in St. Francis, And saw your tired face. Services were held at Grace Pres- Kan., to Dave and He put his arms around you byterian Church in Temecula. Lydia (Wolff) And lifted you to rest. Burial was in Union Cemetery in Schlittenhardt. God’s garden must be beautiful, Bakersfield, Calif. He graduated He always takes the best. Mildred Mills Moberly from St. Francis He knew that you were suffering, Aug. 25, 1918 - May 24, 2006 High School with He knew you were in pain. Mildred Moberly, mother, grand- the class of 1958. Schlittenhardt He knew that you would never mother, great-grandmother, sister Upon graduating Get well on earth again. and friend, died on May 24, 2006, he moved to Hays. While living and He saw that the road was getting at the age of 87 in Olympia, Wash. going to school in Hays he met and rough, Mildred Fae Mills was born Aug. married the mother of his children. And the hills were hard to climb. 25, 1918, in Edison, Neb., to Grace Bob left Hays and moved to So he closed your weary eyelids Stewart and Ray Mills. She was the Oklahoma City to go to work for his And whispered, “Peace be thine.” third of four children. -
Digitally Enhanced Or Dumbed Down? Evangelists' Use of the Internet Douglas Swanson California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo, [email protected]
View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by DigitalCommons@CalPoly Moebius Volume 6 Article 7 Issue 1 The Dumbing Down of America 6-1-2008 Digitally Enhanced or Dumbed Down? Evangelists' Use of the Internet Douglas Swanson California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/moebius Recommended Citation Swanson, Douglas (2008) "Digitally Enhanced or Dumbed Down? Evangelists' Use of the Internet," Moebius: Vol. 6: Iss. 1, Article 7. Available at: http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/moebius/vol6/iss1/7 This Essay and Article is brought to you for free and open access by the College of Liberal Arts at DigitalCommons@CalPoly. It has been accepted for inclusion in Moebius by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@CalPoly. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Swanson: Digitally Enhanced or Dumbed Down? Evangelists' Use of the Intern Dig ital ly Enhanced or Dumbed Down? Evangelists’ Use of the Internet Douglas Swanson Introduction Everywhere we look, digital technology is having an increasingly profound change on the way people gather information about life. Television news, formerly available only at certain times of the day, is now a round-the-clock buffet. Instead of being delivered from a big box tied to an antenna, TV news is now viewed from a handsome picture frame and is moderated by TiVo (I’ll take mine without commercials, thanks). The rolled-in-a-rubber band newspaper that was a staple of so many breakfast tables (unless, of course, you subscribed to a now-extinct afternoon paper) is now, for many, a scan-and-click item on the World Wide Web.