Rodney Howard-Browne is a Charismatic Christian preacher and evangelist. He is pastor of The River at Tampa Bay, a church which he and his wife founded in 1996, and heads Revival Ministries International. He was born in South Africa and has resided in Tampa, Florida, USA since the mid-1990s.
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Biography
Howard-Browne was raised in a Pentecostal family in South Africa. In 1981, he met and married his wife Adonica. In 1987 the family immigrated to the United States.
According to Christianity Today, Browne's ministry is known for its passion for evangelism and ministries of restoration, accompanied by "signs and wonders" characterized by baptism of the Holy Spirit and Fire, physical healings and miracles, with frequent manifestations of laughing and "falling under the power" during his evangelistic services. This gave rise to the terms "holy laughter", and "holy ghost bartender", which refer to audience members spontaneously laughing loudly during his services. In 1999, in upstate New York, revivals "broke out" in church meetings that Howard-Browne was leading or attending. He held a long-term revival meeting at the Carpenter's Home Church in Lakeland, Florida and was subsequently linked to the Toronto Blessing. The manifestations at the Toronto Revival became so contentious that the Vineyard Association of Churches severed ties with the Toronto church.
Howard-Browne serves as the pastor of a church in Tampa, Florida, which he founded in 1996. Rodney and his wife Adonica also founded Revival Ministries International in 1997 and are the Presidents of the River Bible Institute and the River School of Worship.
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Controversies
Diploma Mill "Doctorate"
Howard-Browne claimed to have earned a "doctorate of ministry degree" in 1992 from "The School of Bible Theology", a non-accredited Pentecostal correspondence school in San Jacinto, California, which has been described as a "diploma mill".
Howard-Browne and his wife Adonica were top-ranking ("Black Diamond executive level") distributors for Monavie, a multi-level marketing company that sold acai berry juice-based beverages until folding in 2014 subsequent to a $182 million loan default and allegations of pyramid scheming, fraudulent advertising, and patent infringement.
Plot against Donald Trump
In July 2017, Browne was one of 17 evangelical pastors who visited the White House to pray for and lay hands on Donald Trump. In a video several days later, Howard-Browne claimed "There is a planned attack on our president and that's all I can tell you about right now; I know what I'm talking about, I've spoken to high-ranking people in the government". Howard-Browne later claimed that the Secret Service met with him to discover which congressman told him about the plot but he refused to say, citing pastoral privilege.
Human sacrifice in Hollywood and Washington, DC
In an October 2017 sermon at The River church, Howard-Browne claimed that "They sacrifice children at the highest levels in Hollywood. They drink blood of young kids. This is a fact", continuing, "The human sacrifice and the cannibalism has been going on for years" in Hollywood and Washington, D.C.
Arming of The River at Tampa Bay church
Howard-Browne drew attention for a social media post in November 2017, two days after the Sutherland Springs church shooting, claiming that his church was not a gun-free zone and that he and the church's pastors "are all heavily armed" and would use "deadly force".
Conspiracy theories on InfoWars
In March 2018, Howard-Browne made an appearance on Alex Jones' InfoWars program during which he claimed: that a string of bombings in Austin, Texas were used by "anarchist terrorists" who were attempting to bring "everything under control"; that churches and religious groups were being censored in the U.S.; and that "globalist gremlins" were attempting to thwart Donald Trump.
See also
- Spiritual drunkenness
References
External links
- Rodney Howard-Browne -- Revival Ministries International website
- Rodney Howard-Browne -- Good News New York (GNNY) website
- Duin J. An evening with Rodney Howard Browne. Christian Research Journal. 1995;17(3)
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