Trinity Foundation (Dallas) Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! Switch editorYou have switched to source editingCloseYou can switch back to visual editing at any time by clicking on this icon.Visual editingSource editingMorePreviewAdvancedSpecial charactersHelpHeadingLevel 2Level 3Level 4Level 5FormatInsertLatinLatin extendedIPASymbolsGreekGreek extendedCyrillicArabicArabic extendedHebrewBanglaTamilTeluguSinhalaDevanagariGujaratiThaiLaoKhmerCanadian AboriginalRunesÁáÀàÂâÄäÃãǍǎĀāĂ㥹ÅåĆćĈĉÇçČčĊċĐđĎďÉéÈèÊêËëĚěĒēĔĕĖėĘęĜĝĢģĞğĠġĤĥĦħÍíÌìÎîÏïĨĩǏǐĪīĬĭİıĮįĴĵĶķĹĺĻļĽľŁłŃńÑñŅņŇňÓóÒòÔôÖöÕõǑǒŌōŎŏǪǫŐőŔŕŖŗŘřŚśŜŝŞşŠšȘșȚțŤťÚúÙùÛûÜüŨũŮůǓǔŪūǖǘǚǜŬŭŲųŰűŴŵÝýŶŷŸÿȲȳŹźŽžŻżÆæǢǣØøŒœßÐðÞþƏəFormattingLinksHeadingsListsFilesDiscussionReferencesDescriptionWhat you typeWhat you getItalic''Italic text''Italic textBold'''Bold text'''Bold textBold & italic'''''Bold & italic text'''''Bold & italic textDescriptionWhat you typeWhat you getReferencePage text.<ref>[https://www.example.org/ Link text], additional text.</ref>Page text.[1]Named referencePage text.<ref name="test">[https://www.example.org/ Link text]</ref>Page text.[2]Additional use of the same referencePage text.<ref name="test" />Page text.[2]Display references<references />↑ Link text, additional text.↑ Link text==History== The Trinity Foundation was founded by [[Ole Anthony]] in June 1972.<ref name=dmag2012>{{cite web|last=Nightengale|first=Krista|title=God's Work|website=D Magazine|date=November 2012|quote=Anthony helped start the Trinity Foundation 40(sic) years ago this month.|url=http://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-magazine/2012/november/ole-anthony-trinity-foundation-gods-work|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150930061822/http://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-magazine/2012/november/ole-anthony-trinity-foundation-gods-work|archive-date=30 September 2015|url-status=live|access-date=7 April 2022}}</ref><ref name=about>{{cite web|title=About Us|website=Trinity Foundation|date=26 May 2012|url=https://trinityfi.org/about-us/|access-date=7 April 2022}}</ref>{{efn|Assume typo in the D Magazine article; website says 1972.}} and based in [[Dallas, Texas|Dallas]], [[Texas]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-47675301|title=The preachers getting rich from poor Americans|first=Vicky|last=Baker|work=[[BBC News]]|date=29 May 2019}}</ref> The organization started with the purpose of conducting demographic research on [[televangelism]] and other religious television programming. During a series of scandals in the 1980s and 1990s, the Trinity Foundation established itself as a watchdog group that provided information about fraud and abuse by religious groups.<ref name=about/> It has provided the results of its research and collaborated with journalists at [[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]], [[CBS News]], [[NBC News]], [[CNN]], and ''[[Last Week Tonight]]'' with [[John Oliver]].<ref name=about/> Anthony died in 2021.<ref name=obit2021/> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page