Televangelist Preachers

Into the Pulpit: Southern Baptist Women and Power Since World War II, by Elizabeth Flowers, as the title suggest, is a historical account of women and their treatment in the Southern Baptist Convention from the mid 1940’s to present. Flower’s work revolves much around the well accounted for story of the SBC conflicts of the late 20th century, however, providing the often untold story of women in ministry and particularly their mistreatment. The book is broken up chronologically, chapter one and two begin with years leading to the struggle, 1945-1978. Chapter three revolves around the years entering the struggle for women in ministry, 1979 to 1984. Chapter four and five deal with the years of turmoil and destruction within the SBC, and

Existing in this book are fifteen essays, all written by Flynt, and all are relative to the South, religion, and diversity. His essays review southern history, politics, southern regionalism, evangelicalism, traditionalism, fundamentalism, social history, labor history, two case studies; one on the Southern Baptists in Appalachia and of modernization and community; the second one of twentieth-century politics and religion in Florida. Asserts the complexity of social issues and the reforms Baptists felt were necessary to change. He expounds a minister’s battle within a church to not display the American flag because of the death involved behind it and to not be willing for his church life to be separated from his personal convictions. Flynt

Facts: Westboro Baptist Church, led by Fred Phelps organized a protest on public property to make their beliefs known to others, which is protected by the first Amendment. They do not believe in homosexuality and wars they feel like support homosexuality. They have protest numerus military funerals. Their Protest of Matthew Snyder’s Funeral was on public property and they notified the authorities before picketing the funeral.

1. What does the increase of education Among African-American clergy indicate? (Chapter 5) As the results of our survey will show, educational level has been a key variable in determining a pastor’s awareness of social problems in the surrounding community, cooperation with social agencies, attitude toward politics, and awareness of internal problems in church structures (Lincoln, C. Eric, and Lawrence H. Mamiya 130).

In his book, Rah highlights cultural insensitivity of the Western white Evangelicalism and advocates for multiethnic and immigrant churches. He argues that the Evangelical churches have failed to embrace racial diversity or address the growth of the immigrant population. As the contemporary American society becomes more diverse and multicultural, the American church needs to move beyond its identity as Western and become truly multiethnic. Then, Rah goes after the church growth movement and American megachurches, arguing that they focus on marketing and mass production techniques instead of proclaiming the gospel. He boldly proclaims that "the church growth movement of the twentieth century reflects the cultural values of individualism, materialism, and racism" (2009, 107). He also criticizes the emergent church movement for remaining predominantly white and not acknowledging the non-white voices within Christianity. Ran encourages leaders to learn from multiethnic communities and the Immigrant Church in America.

This semester, as a class, we have peeled away the layers of what evangelicalism and fundamentalism means throughout history, especially in our Western culture. I am intrigued with them both and their very presence in many of our modern-day congregations, as well as the secular parts of our society. After visiting Grace Covenant Church of Austin, Texas, many of the attributes that have been emphasized in books such as Rediscovering an Evangelical Heritage by Donald Dayton and American Apocalypse by Matthew Sutton, I experienced while visiting Grace.

It was not a lot of money, especially for a former leader of the free world, but from what I understand, he was grateful.

These three relationships are religion appearing in popular culture, popular culture appearing in religion, and popular culture as religion. It is hard to separate religious from non-religious within a society’s cultural, social, and religious life. The main purpose is to show that although commercialism is apart of religion, it is possible to separate non-religious components from religious ones and to understand the capabilities and nature of both. Lofton also breaks down the key components of the Winfrey machinery. She examines the ritual of “the makeover” and notes that Winfrey’s show provides many different approaches for identity formation, which is to be determined by Oprah herself. Lofton talks about the Oprah book club as an extension of the “post-Reformation Protestant textual tradition” (Lofton, 18), with the text of the books not being discussed for content but with it being used for immediate personal change and

The Westboro Baptist Church has long been regarded in the media as a group filled with hate and detestation for virtually anyone who does not practice their teachings. In reality, the members of the Westboro Baptist Church hold a strong belief that the messages that are portrayed through their picketing and social media websites are actually acts of love that reveal the severity of the actions that most humans partake in. Most of the members were born into the Church and therefore believe that the words they proclaim are the absolute truth. Although most Americans do not agree with the teachings and practices that the Westboro Baptist Church preaches, it is important to learn about and try to understand the various aspects of the church in

Televangelism is the teaching of Christianity through television. For many years, Televangelists have been broadcasted on radios and televisions and are still being aired to this day. In John Oliver’s show “Last week tonight”, Oliver shines light on many fraudulent Televangelist and even witnessed one of their scams first hand. Oliver sent over 300 dollars to Robert Tilton and his ministry and Tilton continued to request more and more money even after the things he promised Oliver (2015) never came into existence. Fortunately, Oliver knew this would happen and didn’t expect anything however, many of the victims who watch these shows are unaware that they are in fact scams and truly believe what these Televangelists are “Preaching” and

American churches’ overemphasized on individualism, inadequate social theory and rejecting ecclesiology. According to Goen, it failed to provide a proper leadership in the issue of slavery, as a result, it forced the nation to turn to politics in order to confront this slavery issue, which in fact also led to war.1

The radical reformation were decedents of the protestant reformation their teachings however were a little different. They were a more radical movement. The Calvinist and the Lutherans practiced infant baptism but the radical reformers did not practice. Instead they believed adult baptism because they felt as an adult, they are competent to making that decision. They needed to be able to publically declare their love for Jesus Christ. There were three Anabaptist groups that are the most known through history. The Mennonites, the Amish, and the Hutterites. They were very similar in preaching’s but also different to some other aspects.

I am going to write about the protests in Ferguson. From the perspective of a pastor, Voddie Baucham, in Texas. He was in Africa when Ferguson happened and he felt people were either telling him that he had to talk on this issue or he would be judged for not, but he didn’t even know what was going on because he was out of the media loop. When he found out, he didn’t want to speak on the issue because he didn’t know ALL the details, but he said he’s entitled to help his followers who are in need of getting through this. He says, “…it worries me that so many Christians view themselves primarily as members of this or that ethnic community more than they see themselves as members of the body of Christ.” He agrees that there are stereotypes associated with black

In 1998, more than 13 million children (19 percent of all children) under age eighteen lived in families with incomes below the official poverty threshold. Although children age eighteen and under represent 26 percent of the United States population, they comprise nearly 40 percent of the poverty population. Despite a steady decrease from 1993 (23%) to 1999 (17%) in the rate of children in poverty, the United States still ranks highest in childhood poverty among all industrialized nations.

In Liberal Civic Education and Religious Fundamentalisms, Macedo presents the controversies between liberal civic education and religious diversity. As seen in the Mozert v Hawkins case, the school (representing Hawkins) implemented a reading program that require students from Christian families to read text that went against their religious views (471). Mozert argued that family should allow their children to opt out of the reading program to prevent exposures that undermines their religion. Although it can be argued similar to the Amish cases that opting out should be a viable option, Macedo’s argument that implementation of the reading program is valid because exposure allows for the developing tolerance toward diversity. The controversial