by John D. Pierce | Jan 25, 2022 | Opinion
Everybody likes rewards — from free chicken sandwiches to free flights and hotel stays. Rewards are also used as incentives for recovering a lost pet or wallet. But should we think of Christianity as being reward-based? Can one rightly embrace Jesus’ radical call to...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Aug 3, 2018 | News
Many U.S. Protestant and non-denominational churchgoers hear a “prosperity gospel” proclaimed from the pulpit, according to a LifeWay Research report released on July 31. When presented with the statement, “My church teaches that if I give more money to my church and... by Robert Parham | Apr 26, 2016 | Opinion
Fragmentary experiences can inform and sharpen one’s understanding of the world. That has been my experience over 25 years as executive director of the Baptist Center for Ethics/EthicsDaily.com. Here are a few experiences that have expanded and enriched how I... by Tony W. Cartledge | Jan 6, 2016 | Opinion
The Internet has been abuzz this week with mind-boggling footage of two prosperity preachers defending their need to have private jets. In a recent episode of Kenneth Copeland’s “Believers’s Voice of Victory” talk show (Dec. 29, 2015), he and... by Roger Olson | Sep 18, 2015 | Opinion
I grew up within classical Pentecostalism, a Christian tradition that by and large rejected the Word-Faith prosperity gospel when it emerged in the 1970s and 1980s. Yet, within a decade, most cities had at least one Word-Faith church dedicated to the gospel of health...
