Rev. Ike launched the church 61 years ago and it helped launch him to elite heights of evangelical preaching.

During the 1970s, Rev. Ike was one of the most popular and visible blacks in the nation. His weekly sermons were broadcast from New York around the nation and carried by over 1,700 television and ...

Reverend Ike was one of the most visible African-American’s in the United States in the 1970s. Weekly sermons are still broadcast every month ...

Reverend Ike preached the power of what he called “positive self-image psychology” to his 5,000 parishioners at the United Church Science of Living Institute in New York.

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

Rev. Ike first came to fame in the 1970s, preaching what Newsweek magazine once described as ‘an unabashed love of money and the good life.’ Despite criticism from other clergy over his ...

A stroke in 2007 removed Rev. Ike from the spotlight. In announcing his death, a family Web site suggested supporters visit YouTube to see a video of him preaching.

But for him, leaving wasn't an option. Instead, he is becoming a leader in the church. "He is well beyond his 18 years," said the Rev. Ike Brown, pastor at Our Savior's Baptist Church and one of ...

Rev. Ike launched the church 61 years ago and it helped launch him to elite heights of evangelical preaching.

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The minister known as Reverend Ike, who preached the gospel of material prosperity to millions nationwide, died Tuesday. He was 74.