Two groups of Christian organizations stumbled in the dark and woke up with most of their loot gone.
Norman Vincent Peale (Republican) became famous for The Power of Positive Thinking, 1952. Peale greatly influenced Robert Schuller, so Schuller's Power Principle Today was an easy one to model - or to emulate, depending if you like fancy words.
One might argue that the Peale-Schuller team - they were pals - got the mainline denominations into STAR POWER! - Lutherans, Methodists, Babtists and others saw "the bad moon risin."
Mega-Churches Are Quietly Collapsing, & Have Been For Decades. << Click on this.
Someone said to me lately, "There is nothing left."