This week we lost an important and pivotal figure in modern American religious history. Rev. Frederick J. Eikerenkoetter II was a controversial and complicated personality who cast his ecclesial wings ...

WASHINGTON (RNS) — The first special exhibition to focus specifically on religion since the museum opened includes photos and artifacts accompanied by quotations of famous African Americans.

In 1950, when he was just a wee 14 year old, Frederick J. Eikerenkoetter began big-time preaching as an assistant pastor at a Baptist church in Ridgeland, South Carolina. Eikerenkoetter, who was ...

Reverend Frederick Eikerenkoetter, also known as Reverend Ike, was the first of many “prosperity preachers” who dangled blessings over the heads of his congregation members in exchange for 10 percent ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The minister known as Reverend Ike, who preached the gospel of material prosperity to millions nationwide, died Tuesday. He was 74.Family spokesman Bishop E. Bernard Jordan told The ...

Rev. Frederick J. Eikerenkoetter, famously known as "Rev. Ike," was anathema in our staunchly Roman Catholic New Orleans home. To my parents, Daniel and Lillian Brown, he was a child of blasphemy, an ...