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Roe Messner, a Prolific Church Builder and Husband of Tammy Faye Bakker, Dies at 89
Messner, who claimed to have been behind the building of more than 1,800 churches, served just over two years in prison for ...
Underneath all the makeup, who was the real Tammy Faye?
Jim Bakker still makes headlines selling survival food and miracle cures from his television compound near Branson, Missouri. While Tammy Faye died in 2007, a new biopic about her, “ The Eyes of Tammy ...
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Elton John thinks his ‘Tammy Faye’ musical bombed because ‘it was too political for America’
They don’t really get irony.” “Tammy Faye” tells the story of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, the popular 1970s and ‘80s televangelists who shook up religious TV with upbeat prayer ...
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Underneath all the makeup, who was the real Tammy Faye?
(THE CONVERSATION) What is it about televangelists Tammy Faye and Jim Bakker that continues to fascinate nearly 35 years after the fall of their evangelical empire? Jim Bakker still makes ...
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Underneath all the makeup, who was the real Tammy Faye?
John Wigger, University of Missouri-Columbia (THE CONVERSATION) What is it about televangelists Tammy Faye and Jim Bakker that continues to fascinate nearly 35 years after the fall of their ...
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Roe Messner, a Prolific Church Builder and Husband of Tammy Faye Bakker, Dies at 89
In the 1980s, the televangelist Jim Bakker was riding a sensational wave ... along with his wife Tammy Faye, of “The PTL Club” television show and PTL Satellite Network. As Bakker’s ministry ...