According to the Denver Post: An Atlanta investment banker is auctioning off more than 15,000 videotaped episodes of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker's iconic Christian talk show. "The PTL Club," which aired from 1974 to 1987, featured Jim Bakker offering upbeat sermons from a couch and Tammy Faye, wearing...

According to PilotOnline.com; Regent University quietly approved "Regent Democrats" as an official student organization in late January. Regent was founded by Pat Robertson, who is still the president and chancellor of the school. According to the paper, Pat wasn't 'available for comment' but a Rege...

An interesting article was just posted over at Newsweek magazine on the changing meanings and connotations of the word "Christian". I found this particularly interesting given my recent interview with Dave Gibbons. Here's what Dave said: "When I relate globally I usually say IÂ’m a Christ follower r...

Over 2,300 people viewed yesterday's post about David Wilkerson's prophecy of an 'earth-shattering' catastrophe that I posted yesterday. And there were a good amount of comments on all sides about the unusual announcement by Wilkerson over the weekend. Yesterday another prominent pastor spoke out on...

I'm sure it seemed like just any other Sunday yesterday morning when Pastor Fred Winters left his house for the church. Little did he know that while he was preaching during the first service at First Baptist Church of Maryville, IL, a man would walk up the center isle and shoot and kill him. The co...

Over the weekend, famed evangelist says he felt "compelled by the Holy Spirit" to send out an urgent message to all of his friends all over the world. Here is what he said (all caps included): AN EARTH-SHATTERING CALAMITY IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN. IT IS GOING TO BE SO FRIGHTENING, WE ARE ALL GOING TO TREM...

According to an article in the Religion News Service: Booming megachurches might grab headlines, but the bigger story of American congregations is one of accelerating decline, according to David T. Olson, director of the American Church Research Project. Based on data collected from more than 200,00...

The 77th annual edition of the Yearbook of American & Canadian Churches, long a highly regarded chronicler of growth and financial trends of religious institutions, records a slight but startling decline in membership of the nation's largest Christian communions. Membership in the Roman Catholic Chu...

For much of AmericaÂ’s history, the assumption was that if you were born in America, you would affiliate with the Christian faith. A new nationwide survey by The Barna Group, however, indicates that peopleÂ’s views have changed. The study discovered that half of all adults now contend that Christian...

As we begin a new year, I thought it would be fun to take a look back at 2008 and offer some first ever "Todd Awards". See what you think: The "You Gotta Be Kidding Me" award goes to Al Gore. The "Most Under-Reported Story" goes to this story about the New Life gunman. The "Right on the Money" award...