Here’s an interesting interview with ministrywatch.com about Kenneth Copeland (there might be an advertisement that plays first, sorry):

[HT: Achievable ends]

All this is interesting considering what Senator Grassley has been up to.

And just for fun, here’s some information on Joyce Meyer: her salary plus fringe benefits for 2006 was $250,000, plus access to a parsonage—which, it would seem to me, could mean anything owned by the ministry—and she receives any royalties from non-Joyce Meyer Ministries-related books. Part of me thinks that the books might be helped a smidge by her ministry work.

It’s also good to note that her ministry spends heaps of money on ministry activities. They do evangelism and world relief. So it’s not all bad, right?

I’m sure we all have our opinions on televangelists (any guesses as to how I feel about them?), but to take this to a more practical level: how does your church maintain financial transparency? Do your leaders work at this? How have you seen churches/ministries deal poorly with money?