African Leaders Draw Clear Lines Against the Prosperity Gospel

Alongside other Christians in North America, I celebrate Christianity’s explosive growth in Africa and South America in recent generations. And yet I realize that wherever the harvest is plentiful, weeds show up. Such is the case on both continents, where media and missionaries have imported an American-style prosperity gospel that has taken root and flourished.It might be easy for those in traditional denominations to write off Christianity’s demographic shift from the Global North