really appreciate them using this photo; it's often missed but Jim's affair almost singlehandedly killed the TV preacher phenomenon - yes, many of them kept on for a few more decades but donations dropped dramatically after and never recovered to the rate seen in the 1980s
theguardian.com
US televangelist Jim Bakker, ensnared in fraud and sex scandal, dies at 86
Bakker spent four and a half years in prison after being convicted in 1989 of defrauding followers in a scheme involving holidays at his Christian theme park
