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Hello Chris,

I suspect there is an issue on saving session state, caused by wrong permissions.
Please change the permissions to installation/tmp folder to 0777 and try again.

The URL you see in the address bar tells me that instead of Next you're clicking on Check Again. If that's not the case then your host is doing something really funky, such as either changing the URLs of the buttons on the HTML before delivering it to your browser OR routing one URL to another for no apparent reason.

Thank you for the URL, it now makes more sense. It seems that your server doesn't report the query parameters (the view=database) to ANGIE at all. You can verify this by visiting http://vibrantfaithathome.vibrantfaith.org/installation/index.php?view=notexists Normally you should see an error page. Instead, on your server, you get the main page a.k.a. what you get when there's no view parameter in the URL.

At this point I want to make it clear that ANGIE is using the same code as Joomla! 2.5 and later to get the values of URL query parameters. In other words, everything I am about to say apply to both ANGIE and Joomla! itself.

The observed result make me believe that you have a sever hosting issue here. The server seems to be misconfigured, not populating the $_REQUEST PHP variable with the contents of the query string parameters. This is against the standard, documented and only valid PHP behaviour. I've never seen that happening again but there's a first time for everything.

However, I'm not entirely sold to the idea that this is a server configuration error and I don't want to be the one crying wolf. I did observe that you are using a subdomain for your site. Is your subdomain's web root inside your main site's root? I mean something like this

(account root)
   |
   +-- public_html (your main site's root)
   |       |
   |       +-- vibrantfaithathome (your subdomain's root)
   |
   +-- some_other_folder
   |
   ....

In this case your main site's .htaccess file gets in the way of the subdomain. Incidentally, this wrong way of creating subdomains is the default way to create subdomains in cPanel which I understand is what BlueHost (like the majority of hosts out there) is using.

Instead, you need to delete your subdomain and create it afresh, this time putting its directory on the same level (but not inside) your main site's root. What I mean is this:

(account root)
   |
   +-- public_html (your main site's root)
   |
   +-- vibrantfaithathome (your subdomain's root, NOT inside public_html but next to it)
   |
   +-- some_other_folder
   |
   ....

If this still doesn't help then we have a server problem and you need to contact your host.

I hope this information helps!