But you have to earn it. Milmon Harrison’s ethnographic survey of the Word of Faith movement opens with capital letters and exclamation points—punctuation worthy of a faith-stirring service at a ...

The theme is "A Call for Discernment, a Biblical Critique of the Word of Faith Movement." Speakers will be Justin Peters, an itinerate evangelist and theologian, Paul Washer, director of Heartcry ...

(WSPA) – During a regular monthly meeting for Rutherford County DSS, former Word of Faith Fellowship members and community members called for the resignation of director John Carroll. Word of Faith ...

On August 3, 2009, Texan televangelist Kenneth Copeland gave an impassioned sermon to a crowd of more than 9,000 at the Southwest Believers Convention in Fort Worth amid one of the worst economic ...

(AP) — The leader of a secretive church in North Carolina has been named in federal court records as someone who “promoted” an unemployment fraud scheme involving businesses owned by members of her ...

When former schoolteacher Jane Whaley and her husband, Sam, founded Word of Faith Fellowship in Spindale, NC in 1979, no one could have imagined all that the institution would become: a religious ...

A controversial church in Rutherford County, that has been accused of abuse by former members, received a loan through the federal government’s small business relief program, records released this ...

Two award-winning journalists have written a book revealing new details about an infamous North Carolina church — often characterized as a cult — that has been at the center of federal criminal ...