*The son of Rev. Ike has penned a book about his impact on the Blach church titled “Reverend Ike: An Extraordinary Life of Influence” with the motivational speaker Mark Victor Hansen. Religious News ...

In 1950, when he was just a wee 14 year old, Frederick J. Eikerenkoetter began big-time preaching as an assistant pastor at a Baptist church in Ridgeland, South Carolina. Eikerenkoetter, who was ...

Before Joel Osteen and Creflo Dollar, Reverend Ike — who “made his transition” (that is, died) on Tuesday — preached a gospel of prosperity to a flock that really needed to hear it. As Pastor of the ...

Dwight and Mamie Eisenhower have chosen the church they will attend in Washington: the grey stone, round-arched National Presbyterian Church at Connecticut and N Street, eight blocks north of the ...

Rev. Frederick J. Eikerenkoetter, famously known as "Rev. Ike," was anathema in our staunchly Roman Catholic New Orleans home. To my parents, Daniel and Lillian Brown, he was a child of blasphemy, an ...