Envy Apartment

The following testimony from JD Hall regarding a recent visit to Jim Bakker’s studio and Morningside Ministries was sent to Pulpit & Pen for publishing. While on a working vacation in Branson, Missouri on August 2 – just prior to my debate on Cessationism and Charismaticism in Cleveland the following weekend – I spent time with my extended family on the campus of College of the Ozarks. While there, I planned to visit the television studios and survivalist retreat (for lack of a better word) of Jim Bakker, the disgraced televangelist who had a multi-millionaire fund his ministry come back and who is now hustling survival supplies in the name of Jesus. Prior to leaving on vacation, I planned this visit to Morningside and received permission for what I had expected would happen from my local church leadership , lest anyone think I am a completely crazy man who had gone rogue or something like that. My leadership gave me the okay to do what I, indeed, ended up doing. First, a few th...

WOODMERE - Police say a man with a badge, handcuffs and pepper spray falsely claimed to be a cop to gain entry to a Nassau temple. Officials say 28-year-old Mikhail Mikhaylov, of Queens, showed up to the Temple Young Israel of Woodmere Saturday morning just as services were wrapping up. They say he parked in a restricted spot and told a security guard he was a police officer. He wore an NYPD baseball hat and had the other gear attached to his belt. According to court documents, Mikhaylov got inside the synagogue and told people he had a gun in his car. The head of security stopped and questioned him. Mikhaylov flashed what looked like an NYPD detective shield , and was then asked to show his police identification. Detectives say that's when he went back to his car and took off. When he was apprehended, police say Mikhaylov had two knives on him. In court Monday morning , an attorney representing Mikhaylov told the judge he had gone to the temple to pray. News 12 went to Mikha...

One day in August, 2016, the financier Carl Icahn made an urgent phone call to the Environmental Protection Agency . Icahn is one of the richest men on Wall Street, and he has thrived, in no small measure, because of a capacity to intimidate. A Texas- based oil refiner in which he had a major stake was losing money because of an obscure environmental rule that Icahn regarded as unduly onerous. Icahn is a voluble critic of any government regulation that constrains his companies. So he wanted to speak with the person in charge of enforcing the policy: a senior official at the E.P.A. named Janet McCabe . Icahn works from a suite of offices, atop the General Motors Building , in midtown, that are decorated in the oak-and-leather fashion of a tycoon’s lair in a nineteen-eighties film. During that decade, Icahn made his reputation as one of the original corporate raiders , pioneering the art of the hostile takeover and establishing himself as a human juggernaut—a pugnacious deal machine ...