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Houston-based God, Inc.
Karl Taro Greenfeld of Portfolio.com examines the money-making machine that is Houston's Joel Osteen and Lakewood Church (prior posts here): Last year, Lakewood generated $76 million in revenue, which amounts to just over $1,600 for every member of its congregation....
I wonder what she thinks about the guys over at the Masonic Temple?
Putting Chuck Rosenthal's troubles aside for a moment, does anyone else think it's time to clean house at the Harris County District Attorneys' Office?: Republican district attorney candidate Kelly Siegler told a judge last year that members of Houston's Lakewood...
What is Joel Osteen's message?
The Chronicle's Tara Dooley is breathless in this Sunday Chronicle article on the ever-expanding financial empire of Joel Osteen, pastor of Houston megachurch, Lakewood Church (previous posts here): Osteen and Free Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, will release...
Business is good in one mega-church pulpit
Houston has several of the nation's largest churches and business is quite good in at least one of them: The next book from megaselling pastor Joel Osteen—Become a Better You: 7 Keys to Improving Your Life—will have a first printing...
One of the risks of the modern church
It's trendy these days for megachurches to provide all sorts of special services for their members. One of the most popular of such services is marriage counseling, which this NY Times article reports placed a Texas church squarely in the...
Houston's most influential churches
The Church Report has released its annual list of America's 50 Most Influential (Protestant) Churches and, as with last year's list, several Houston megachurches made the list. Lakewood Church and the ubiquitous Joel Osteen come in again as the highest-rated...
The Osteen Empire
This Ralph Blumenthal/NY Times article profiles the ubiquitous Houston-based mega-pastor, Joel Osteen (prior posts here) in a quite positive light: After a warm-up of rousing original rock and gospel hymns with lyrics and videos flashing on jumbo screens around the...
That Osteen Family Christmas spirit
You know, it's difficult not having the Joel Osteen Family maid along on those pesky first class trips to Vail to take care of untidiness. The Chronicle story reports the following: A dispute involving the wife of Lakewood Church pastor...
Lakewood and Houston's other big churches
This Church Report article -- The 50 Most Influential Churches -- examines the fifty largest churches in the United States based on a survey that was sent to 2,000 church leaders with the goal of ranking the nation’s fastest growing...
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