Joel Osteen better pay attention before he ends up in the same ugly mess as the Reverend Robert H. Schuller. Schuller might soon be yanking a foreclosure notice from the doors of his Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, California. The empire created by the 84-year-old Reverend has filed for bankruptcy....

Rescue crews hadn’t even begun to unload supplies before Pat Robertson began to upbraid Haitians for their “pact with the devil.” Robertson said Haitians joined forces with Satan’s Army:  “They said, ‘We will serve you if you’ll get us free from the French.’ True story. And so the...

I learned of the death of Oral Roberts through a Twitter post that said: “Celebrating with Oral Roberts as he came face to face with Jesus. Your mansion is sooooo big. I’m sure of it!” The news was jarring. Not that Oral Roberts was dead at age 91, though, I imagine for those who loved him his...

I don’t think God has access to email, so I don’t know how he responds to email prayers, or even if he does. I have a difficult time enough praying the conventional way. I’m not about to waste my emotional energy sending out prayers of anguish and gratitude to free-float in Cyber-space...

When I was a young girl I had an albino friend. Annie’s hair was as light and wispy as cotton candy. Her eyes as pink as Valentine Sweet-Tarts.  At church, whenever we sang that song about Jesus washing me whiter than snow, I thought of her. Almost from birth, I was marred with freckles. Angel-kisses,...