Supernaural weight-loss programme

Here's an evangelist who says people lose weight at his meetings when the power of God moves across the room.

No, I'm not making this up. Watch this interview if you don't believe me. His name is Joshua Mills (pictured here with his wife Janet), and he is speaking, and presumably imparting gold dust, tonight at Belfast's super slim Elim Christian Centre. The service will be live-streamed online in a few minutes' time. It's easy to reach for the the word 'bizarre' when talking about Joshua Mills's claims. So I will. This is as bizarre an account of spiritual revival as one is likely to encounter.

I'll leave you to decide whether there's any truth to the claims, or whether it's merely an American evangelist who's found an original entrance into the expanding markets for weight-loss programmes and super slim pomegranate pills cosmetic dental work. Incidentally, Joshua's new praise album is called "Let's Get High".

The Elim Christian Centre, you will recall, is the Belfast church that cancelled all its regular services and events a few months ago in order to run healing services every night of the week. Those healing events -- now in their tenth week -- were inspired by the so-called Lakeland Revival, which is associated with the work of Todd Bentley and Fresh Fire Ministries.