The prosperity gospel in black and white

Last winter, I wrote a somewhat contrarian blog post on the prosperity gospel. I never did endorse it, but I was trying to talk about the fact that for those on the lower economic margins that happen to think about money, they are more willing to talk about finances and how this relates to their walk with God.

Something made me think about the prosperity gospel again and I noticed something about most of the critics of it: they’re all white.

Now, I can only make that statement from what I’ve observed. Maybe there is an African American pastor railing against the prosperity gospel. But there’s something telling that there seems to not be a person of color who obesses over the prosperity gospel in ways that whites do.