?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 ...

(RNS/ENI) The Rev. Frederick J. Eikerenkoetter II, an early proponent of the prosperity gospel best known as “Rev. Ike,” died Tuesday (July 28). He was 74. Rev. Ike was among the first in the 1970s to ...

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 ...