www.joycemeyer.orgJoyce MeyerSeventeen months after the U.S. Senate Finance Committee launched an accounting inquiry into six television evangelists, one of those TV preachers -- Fenton's own Joyce Meyer -- says she's now financially square. Yesterday a Virginia organization called the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability (ECFA) issued a statement announcing that Meyer's ministry is fully accredited with its agency. In November 2007, Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), the ranking member
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Christopher ColemanLast week Christopher Coleman hired defense attorney William Margulis to represent him in the investigation into the strangulation death of his wife, Sheri, 31, and sons Garett, 11, and Gavin, 9, at their Columbia, Illinois, home on May 5. Yesterday Coleman and his lawyer arrived at the Columbia police station to provide fingerprints to investigators -- even though authorities have yet to name any suspects in the murders. Coleman and his attorney did not answer questions when
Christopher ColemanMore details are emerging in the bizarre case of Chistopher Coleman, the Columbia, Illinois, man accused of killing his wife and two sons last month. Yesterday Columbia Police Chief Joseph Edwards said that the threatening emails the Coleman family received prior to the murders originated from Christopher Coleman's laptop computer. The police chief also said that vulgar statements spray painted at the murder scene matched Coleman's handwriting. Authorities also revealed yester
Christopher Coleman with his wife, Sheri, and sons Garett and Gavin.More details of accused killer Christopher Coleman's private life are emerging with the release of his employment records with Joyce Meyer Ministries. Last week the Fenton-based ministries handed over more than 400 pages of documents to attorneys representing the family of Sheri Coleman in a wrongful death lawsuit against her former husband. Coleman is accused of strangling to death Sheri and the couple's two children in thei
flickr.com/photos/stockholm_cindyAll apologies to detractors of Joyce Meyer, but Elizabeth Clare Prophet, who slithered off this mortal coil last Thursday, was undoubtedly the weirdest female religious figure in this country.Prophet began her prophetic career in 1973 when her husband Mark Prophet died and she took over the leadership of the Summit Lighthouse, a group he had founded in 1957 and which combined elements of Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism and Theosophy.Writes William Grimes in P
If you look closely you can see Kurt Warner's head right above the wall on the grassy knoll.As far as grand conspiracies go, this one might not rank up there with JFK's assassination and the alleged shooter on the "grassy knoll". But it does share some of the similar themes. A suspicious murder, grass (or artificial turf, anyway) and grainy video footage. Today the Belleville News-Democrat is airing a clip of a charity touch-football game from earlier this year that featured Arizona Cardinals
