Joel Osteen

A Texas plumber made a surprise discovery: “bags and bags” of stolen cash and checks. So far, the church allegedly hasn’t given him a reward or even said thank you.

No one realized it wasn’t really Osteen until the man made it to the stage.

After stating that the church was inaccessible due to flooding, and amid heavy criticism, the church is finally opening its doors to victims of Hurricane Harvey.

“Homosexuality is a sin — I believed it before, and I still believe it now,” says Joel Osteen. Appearing Tuesday on CNN’s “Piers Morgan Tonight,” Osteen, the pastor of mammoth Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas, said his beliefs are rooted in scripture.

Joel Osteen, best-selling author and religious entertainer: “Homosexuality is a sin.” In an interview earlier this week on CNN, Osteen toes a fundamentalist, homophobic line on the interpretation of the Bible.

HLN’s Joy Behar talks with singer Dolly Parton about her gay following, and Joel Osteen saying gays are “not God’s best.” Says Parton replies: “I just think they [gays] appreciate the fact that I just love everybody for who they are, and love them as they are.” Taking a Twitter question from a viewer about […]