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Poker players rejoice when they detect a fish -- a cheerful, tireless, well- funded loser -- radiating stupidity from across the green felt. Poker, of course, is a low pastime, whereas investment counseling, stockbroking and commodities trading are honorable professions. Still, suggests amateur Investor John Rothchild in this wry and funny confession...
Swaggart's tearful confession came at a perilous moment, not only for him but for the raucous world of TV evangelism, which was still stumbling toward recovery after a disastrous 1987. Oral Roberts kicked off last year's proceedings by announcing to an incredulous public a divine mandate to raise...
The Swaggart scandal began to unfold on Feb. 18, three days before his climactic confession service, when the evangelist and his entourage rushed by private jet to Springfield, Mo., for a secret meeting with church leaders at Assemblies of God headquarters. It was a sorry moment for the denomination, which...
After Swaggart's sermonic confession, a prostitute named Debra Murphree turned up in West Palm Beach, Fla., and claimed to be the woman in the photos. Interviewed by WVUE-TV of New Orleans, she said she had had a yearlong series of motel meetings with Swaggart, during which no intercourse...
The slap-on-the-wrist penance package infuriated many national Assemblies leaders and church folk in general, who clogged the Springfield switchboard with calls protesting the special treatment. After all, until church law was changed in 1973, a clergyman who made such a confession would have been expelled for two...