Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts with the label faye

One Punk Under God

One Punk Under God: The Prodigal Son of Jim & Tammy Faye is My New Obsession by Paula Neal Mooney I used to think the word "televangelist" was synonymous with liar and cheat. This was in no small part because I came of age in the 1980s, when folks like Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker ruled the airways with their Praise the Lord (PTL) Ministries. (Thank God for TV preachers like Bishop T.D. Jakes and Joyce Meyer -- who are the epitome of honest, God-fearing teachers.) Anyway, Jim and Tammy Faye became the laughingstock of the world when Jim's affair with Jessica Hahn was exposed, along with Jim's conviction of illegally diverted millions of dollars of donations for his own private use. Jim went to prison, was released and restored and remarried. And Tammy remarried as well. Now their son, Jay Bakker , who went on drugs and rejected the Church due to the hypocrisy Jay witnessed firsthand, is back and saving souls for the Lord in his own Revolution Church . Jay Bakker i...