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From his roots as a comedy writer to political pundit, radio host, best-selling author and, of course, Bill O'Reilly's longstanding bête noire, Al Franken has had many different roles. His latest: the subject of a low-budget indie documentary, God Spoke, rolling out in theaters this week. TIME's Jeffrey Ressner talked to the loquacious liberal just hours before Franken dashed off to a Democratic National Committee event...
...know. Others theorize that what we're seeing is a continuation of increasing body mass in well-nourished nations, helped along by falling smoking rates. "I'm not arguing that we know for a fact that the increased weight level of people in developed nations is entirely benign," says author Campos. "It might not be. But it very well might. Given that we don't know the underlying causes ... the best approach is to ask whether people's overall health is getting better or worse. It's clearly getting better. The only reply the obesity alarmists have to this...
...practical thing he did, he thinks, was go to a new church, even though he had to move his wife and four preteen boys to Conroe, a suburb of Houston, to do it. Conroe, you see, is not far from Lakewood, the home church of megapastor and best-selling author Joel Osteen...
...used to being chastened for their sins than celebrated as God's children. "Who would want to get in on something where you're miserable, poor, broke and ugly and you just have to muddle through until you get to heaven?" asks Joyce Meyer, a popular television preacher and author often lumped in the Prosperity Lite camp. "I believe God wants to give us nice things." If nothing else, Meyer and other new-breed preachers broach a neglected topic that should really be a staple of Sunday messages: Does God want you to be rich...
...religion department at Boston University. "They hear it as aspirant. They hear, 'You can make it too--buy a car, get a job, get wealthy.' It can function as a form of liberation." It can also be exploitative. Outsiders, observes Milmon Harrison of the University of California at Davis, author of the book Righteous Riches, often see it as "another form of the church abusing people so ministers could make money...