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GOD TV: Where Right Wing Paranoia Meets End Times Prophecy 01/15/2010 by Kyle Mantyla Following my post yesterday on GOD TV's announcement that it would be airing Lou Engle's Houston prayer rally, I was searching around its website for info on how to …

Lou Engle's DC House of Prayer 12/21/2009 by Kyle Mantyla While researching the Religious Right's newest start Lou Engle and his ties to the International House of Prayer which, as we noted last week, had recently canceled classes due to an outpouring of …

The Holy Spirit Invades IHOP 12/18/2009 by Kyle Mantyla When Lou Engle is not overseeing right-wing " prayercasts " and rubbing elbows with Republican members of Congress, he is affiliated with the International House of Prayer in Kansas City, which is …

IHOP Classes Canceled Due To Holy Spirit 11/24/2009 by Kyle Mantyla Earlier this year, we wrote a post about Lou Engle and the International House of Prayer located in Kansas City, MO, noting that it is essentially a 24/7 version of Engle's massive "The …

Understanding Rifqa Bary's Ties to Lou Engle 11/03/2009 by Kyle Mantyla One of the questions regarding the whole Rifqa Bary saga that has been lingering is how exactly she ever ended up becoming involved with Lou Engle and appearing on the prayer call he …

IHOP: The Call, 24/7 07/31/2009 by Kyle Mantyla Lou Engle of The Call tends to only generate press when he hosts one of his massive prayer rallies, and even then, only the events that are timed to coincide with political events or elections ever receive …

GOD TV's Logical Follow-Up 12/02/2008 by Kyle Mantyla If you are Rory and Wendy Alec, the founders behind GodTV, how do you follow up your massively successful election special in which a cavalcade of right-wing luminaries mingled with a bunch of …

The God TV Election Special 11/04/2008 by Kyle Mantyla Among the myriad of excuses the Religious Right will roll out tomorrow should John McCain lose will be the idea that McCain just didn’t energize the base and so they stayed home.  That may very well …

The Rise of Lou Engle 10/29/2008 by Kyle Mantyla Sarah Posner has a good piece up at Religion Dispatches on Lou Engle, founder of The Call, and his recent branching out from this militant anti-abortion proselytizing and into the marriage debate and the …

Joel's Army and The Call 08/28/2008 by Kyle Mantyla We wrote about The Call a few times before the rally on the National Mall earlier this month, but the Southern Poverty Law Center has released a fascinating new report entitled "Arming" for Armageddon …