A lot of people are talking and writing about The Eyes of Tammy Faye, a new film on televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker. I hope to see this soon. I am particularly interested in Vincent D’Onofrio‘s portrayal of Jerry Falwell. Over...
Jim Bakker
Now I finally understand what really happened to Jim Bakker in the 1980s. He got canceled.
If you want to get a feel for what is going on in the pro-Trump wing of charismatic Christianity, check out Steve Strang‘s recent appearance on the Jim Bakker Show. Strang, the editor of Charisma magazine, has a new book...
Jerry and Becki vs. Jim and Tammy
Over at Religion News Service, University of Missouri historian John Wigger compares two evangelical sex scandals separated by 33 years. Wigger is the author of PTL: The Rise and Fall of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker’s Evangelical Empire. Here is...
There is nothing new about what happened to conservative evangelicals this week. But how will they respond?
It was a rough week for conservative evangelicals in the United States. The president of the largest Christian university in the country resigned after a sex scandal. A popular evangelical radio host and author was caught on tape punching an...
Tuesday night court evangelical roundup
What have Trump’s evangelicals been saying since our last update? Court evangelicals are getting massive checks from the federal government. The money comes from the Payback Protection Program, a program to help small business during the pandemic. Peter Montgomery reports. Elana Schor is also...
Monday night court evangelical roundup
What have Trump’s evangelicals been saying since our last update? Greg Laurie is still suggesting that the United States was “born out of a revival.” I addressed the many problems with this view here. In fact, religious attendance and membership was at an all-time...
This is What Slouching Into Relativism Looks Like
Watch this video of Jim Bakker and Robert Jeffress on Bakker’s television program (if you can’t see it, I have included a transcript below. It’s pretty remarkable that Jim Bakker and Robert Jeffress can’t even bring themselves to criticize Trump...
Jim Bakker Connects Eternal Salvation With the Support of Donald Trump
Some of you have seen this: Jim Bakker declares that supporting Trump “is a test [of] whether you are even saved.” pic.twitter.com/Lay3BNfihc — Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) January 6, 2020 If you can’t see the video embedded in the tweet,...
More Court Evangelical Fear Mongering from Paula White
Donald Trump’s spiritual adviser Paula White is at it again. On a recent appearance on the Jim Bakker Show to promote her new book Something Greater: Finding Triumph Over Trials, White said that those who do not support Trump will one...
Jim Bakker and David Barton Get Together
David Barton recently visited The Jim Bakker Show to talk about his new book The Founders Bible. I’ve been watching Barton for a long time, and I sense several new points of emphasis during his visit. After his publisher Brad Cummings speaks,...
The “Real” Reason Televangelist Jim Bakker Went to Jail
Here is an excerpt from University of Missouri historian John Wigger’s book PTL: The Rise and Fall of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker’s Evangelical Empire (Oxford University Press, 2017): …on March 19, 1987, Jim Bakker resigned in disgrace from PTL after...
Why a $45.00 Prayer Coin is Actually a Bargain for Trump Followers
Here is a taste of my piece today at Religion News Service: For centuries, Catholics have used rosary beads to aid them in the practice of prayer. Some American Protestants view their Bibles as a kind of talisman or amulet...
Evangelical Trump Fans: Don’t Forget to Buy Your King Cyrus-Donald Trump Prayer Coin
In Believe Me: The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump, I wrote a several pages on the so-called INC (Independent Network Charismatics) prophets. Lance Wallnau is one of these “prophets.” Here is what I wrote about him: Early in the 2016 campaign,...
What Has Televangelist Jim Bakker Been Doing These Days?
Bakker is helping people survive the apocalypse: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=al4Qr9MlDWo&w=560&h=315] ...
Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker
Check out Martyn Wendell Jones‘s piece at The Weekly Standard on the disgraced preachers. The article is framed around John Wigger‘s recent book, PTL: The Rise and Fall of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker’s Evangelical Empire. Here is a taste: Following Bakker’s...
Jim Bakker Claims That Trump Was Probably Sharing the Gospel with Stormy Daniels
After all, he is a “baby Christian.” This comes from the Christian satire website “The Babylon Bee.” In other words, IT IS NOT TRUE. It is satire. For a second I didn’t think this was satire. @thebabylonbee is getting too...
Court Evangelical: “We Were Sent Here To Take Over”
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STcgXcxOhNc&w=560&h=315] I don’t even know where to begin with this video: I need to figure out the difference between a “Saul anointing” and a “David anointing” White said that the fact that Trump is not a “polished” politician is...
Jim Bakker: Don’t Mock God’s Prophets
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WAvxTg1Pio&w=560&h=315] Is Trump a prophet? Are the court evangelicals? Who is Bakker describing a prophets? I should also add that the guy on this video talking about covenants sounds like he was lifted straight out of 17th-century Boston. So...
Author’s Corner with John Wigger
John Wigger is a Professor of History at the University of Missouri. This interview is based on his new book, PTL: The Rise and Fall of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker’s Evangelical Empire (Oxford University Press, 2017). JF: What led you to...
Court Evangelical Jim Bakker: If Trump Gets Impeached, Christians Must “Come Out of the Shadows” and Wage a “Civil War”
The hits keep coming. Add Jim Bakker (of PTL fame) to the list of court evangelicals. In this video he equates support for Trump with living a Christian life. He applies the biblical passage “faith without works is dead” (James...