Subscribe for analysis that goes beyond the noise. Back in the late 1980s, Bakker and Jimmy Swaggart were universally ridiculed for sexual and financial improprieties. Many thought that Bakker’s fraud ...

She and her husband, Marcus Lamb, founded Daystar Television Network, which reached more than 200 countries and made the ...

Televangelist Jan Crouch died yesterday at the age of 78. Even if you’ve never heard her sermons, you’d probably recognize her image. She was known for enormous bouffant wigs – sometimes blonde, ...

TULSA, Okla. -- Oral Roberts, a pioneer in televangelism who founded a multimillion-dollar ministry and a university that bears his name, died Tuesday. He was 91. Roberts died of complications from ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. John Oliver's scintillating HBO program Last Week Tonight has ...

Oral Roberts, the pioneering televangelist and founder of Oral Roberts University, died today at the age of 91. Roberts was adored in the charismatic world, with major televangelists crediting him ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Turkey's most notorious sex-cult leader, Adnan Oktar, was slammed on ...

EXCLUSIVE: The Alienist writer John Sayles is developing a limited series set in the world of televangelism with AGC Television. Sayles, who has been nominated for a best screenwriting Oscar for ...

Rex Humbard, a frontrunner in televangelism who ministered to millions of weekly viewers—including Elvis Presley—died September 21. Humbard died of natural causes at a hospital near his Florida home, ...