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Huckabee might want to opt out. On Nov. 6 the Copelands got a saw-toothed, 42 point questionnaire inquiring into their own character from Republican Senator Chuck Grassley, ranking member of the Senate Committee on Finance. Grassley wanted to know how Kenneth Copeland--who as a church leader pays no taxes but is expected to plow revenue back into the public welfare--got a private plane and whether flights to Hawaii and Fiji qualified as business trips. Grassley sought credit card receipts and the numbers of the church's offshore bank accounts...
Prosperity adherents believe the right thoughts and speech, along with giving to the church, will prompt divine repayment in this life, with a return as high as $100 on each dollar handed up. On a small scale, Prosperity's positive thinking has sometimes energized the march of the poor into the middle class, but many Christians find it theologically and ethically perverse. Prosperity dominates American religious TV, and millions of adherents send millions of dollars to preachers they have never met. For Grassley, this might be fine if the ministers put all the money back into their mission work...
...good that can be done," says Marvin Olasky, editor of the evangelical weekly World. J. Lee Grady, editor of Charisma magazine, where some of the six advertise, hopes all can prove their innocence, but he adds, "If God wants to use a Senator to help the American church clean up its act, then I say bring on the Reformation...
...detracting from its simple magic. On a positive note, the film’s well shot. In particular, bright colors create a sense of easy-going warmth in places where the film’s happiest, music-related moments occur. The white light from a window in a Harlem church blissfully silhouettes the scene where Hope, a sassy young girl, lends her angelic voice to Rush’s musical compositions. Hans Zimmer protégé Mark Mancina carefully scores the film, and he does an excellent job of capturing Rush’s internal musical monologue. Rush processes...
...first got him involved with the activism portrayed in the film. “We are a fairly religious family, a Lutheran family,” said Reitan. “After I came out, it was very important for my mother in particular to see that the Lutheran Church changed on this issue.” She discovered an organization called Soulforce, a non-violent resistance group dedicated to ending gay bigotry with religious roots, and was unbowed in the face of the group’s arrest record. Her drive inspired Reitan to take a more active stance...