This week we lost an important and pivotal figure in modern American religious history. Rev. Frederick J. Eikerenkoetter II was a controversial and complicated personality who cast his ecclesial wings ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1950, when he was just a wee 14 year old, Frederick J. Eikerenkoetter began big-time preaching as an assistant pastor at a ...

Religious News reports that Rev. Ike described himself as “the first Black man in America to preach positive self-image psychology to the Black masses within a church setting.” Reverend Ike’s son, ...

“Change makes your minister nervous in the service,” the Reverend Frederick J. Eikerenkoetter II would tell his congregation. The controversial evangelist, known as Rev. Ike died last week in Los ...

Reverend Run will be honored with the "Protégé of the Year" award during a ceremony honoring Dr. Reverend Frederick Eikerenkoetter, popularly known as Reverend Ike. On June 12, Bishop E. Bernard ...

LOS ANGELESLOS ANGELES — The minister known as Reverend Ike, who preached the gospel of material prosperity to millions nationwide, died Tuesday. He was 74. Family spokesman Bishop E. Bernard Jordan ...

Reverend Frederick Eikerenkoetter, also known as Reverend Ike, was the first of many “prosperity preachers” who dangled blessings over the heads of his congregation members in exchange for 10 percent ...

The Rev. Frederick J. Eikerenkoetter II, the flamboyant, lavish-living preacher known as Reverend Ike, whose message of success and prosperity reached millions, has died. He was 74. Rev. Ike, who had ...

The minister known as Reverend Ike, who preached the gospel of material prosperity to millions nationwide, has died. He was 74. The Rev. Frederick J. Eikerenkoetter II died Tuesday, according to a ...

Click to open image viewer. A size 39, fuchsia pink, dress shirt designed by Etro and worn by Reverend Ike. The shirt is made from pink cotton. It is plain with a standard collar, a curved hem, and ...