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...Association, 90% of buyers are women, and the average age of readers is 42. In the past year, sales by the seven biggest publishers of the genre have surpassed $43 million. Perhaps the surest sign that the field is a rich one is the big names it is attracting: televangelist Pat Robertson and Watergate felon turned Evangelical Charles Colson have jumped in with first novels this fall. Robertson's galvanizing The End of the Age (Word; 374 pages; $21.99) is about a meteor catastrophe worthy of the book of Revelation; Colson's Gideon's Torch (Word; 551 pages...
...TELEVANGELIST PAT ROBERTSON is dancing with the devil in Zaire, participating in that country's highly lucrative diamond trade [Zaire, Feb. 27]. I find it curious that a man who professes his life's work is preaching the word of God would have a net worth exceeding several million dollars. Oh, I forgot, those dollars are from the profits of the many corporations owned by Robertson or his church. I wonder if the revenue realized from his African endeavors will be tax-exempt because it comes from his African Development...
...does not subsist on $500 a year--he has many millions stashed away, and right now he makes a decent income off his country's roughly $300 million-a-year diamond trade. Now, with Mobutu's permission, Zaire's diamond business has a new entrant--Pat Robertson, the American televangelist and ex-presidential candidate...
...televangelist Jim Bakker -- after five years in prison and house arrest for bilking followers out of $158 million -- is now free to go (and preach). But, like a pet reluctant to leave an open cage, the 54-year-old PTL preacher chose to spend his first day of freedom inside the his Asheville, N.C. home, where he'd been legally confined since July. His daughter, Tammy Sue Chapman, told reporters she'd like him to join her singing ministry. BTW: While Bakker did time, his wife, Tammy Faye, divorced him and married Roe Messner, the chief builder at Heritage...
...committee meetings that usually draw small crowds. In Minnesota only about 1% of the state's active Republicans attended the caucuses that chose delegates for last week's convention. Ideological commitment also ensures that the troops of the Christian right work overtime for their chosen candidates. "Those who serve," televangelist Pat Robertson once told TIME, "have a tendency, ultimately, to be those who lead...