I’m on the road, down south. Saturday night in my motel room I surfed channel after channel of TV preachers. I became weirdly fascinated and watched them to get a sense of what they were teaching. I heard an evangelist of the prosperity gospel (using the text in which Jesus calls Peter to launch out into the deep, whereupon he caught so many fish his net broke and his fish started to sink), a female Methodist minister preaching against bullying, and an end-times preacher urging us to get ready for the impending disasters.
Are there any TV preachers who are closer to being orthodox? Is there something about the medium that encourages these kinds of sensationalist preachers to dominate the airwaves (or cable)?
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