The prosperity Gospel always occupied the fringes of my experience of religion -- a strange and colorful neighbor, easy enough to dismiss and avoid. That is until I encountered its East African expression. There I found in the street markets ample tables with the collected works of well known American...

The High Priest may treat the crumbs of the Eucharistic ritual with sacrosanct care in order that none go wasted; yet, it is all too easily forgotten that the Eucharist celebrates the greatest loss of all -- a life. This claim, paraphrased from the sociologist of religion Dick Fenn, reminds...