October – particularly today on Halloween –brings out all manner of spookiness. In keeping with the general theme of the season, I want to talk about a particularly spooky development in theology: The historic practice of selling indulgences, and how that has informed an equally influential branch of evangelicalism today.

While the film takes a journey away from the prosperity gospel, it ends up at a wrong destination. Sadly, ‘The Eyes of Tammy Faye’ errs in its direction away from error.