Right-wing conspiracy theorist Steven Hotze appeared on Rick Scarborough’s “Mixing Church & State God’s Way” podcast Tuesday, where he encouraged listeners to pray for the upcoming election by asking ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Until this month, “imprecatory prayer” was not in many people’s vocabularies. But then the Rev. Wiley Drake, pastor of First Baptist Church of Buena Park, ...

(UNDATED) Ever since Pastor Wiley Drake declared not once, but three times, on national radio that he was praying for the death of President Obama, he has been trying to clarify. Yes, he really does ...

Praying for God to hurt someone is not illegal, judge rules (RNS) Is it okay to ask God to do harm to another person? The theology of such “imprecatory prayer” may be a matter of debate, but a Dallas ...

A California minister who used church stationery and an Internet radio program to endorse former Gov. Mike Huckabee for president is asking his followers to pray for the deaths of those who filed a ...

When most people think of prayers, they probably think of believers appealing to God for something inherently positive: peace, the health of loved ones, personal strength in the face of adversity, etc ...

Pastor Wiley Drake preaches on most Sundays in a church tucked in between California’s big amusement parks, a place some people refer to as “Wiley World.” The particular Sunday I visited First ...