Word: televangelist
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...sent man here on a mission." That mission, he says, is to pursue love, justice, kindness and dignity. In fact, he repeats those works so often that it begins to sound like a mantra: Love. Justice. Kindness. Dignity. He speaks with the quiet zeal of a not-very-flamboyant televangelist. "The pursuit of justice through love and kindness and human dignity can end all conflicts on earth," he says. "Inshallah...
...caricature--the garish, bejeweled wife of wealthy televangelist Jim Bakker and the co-host of the Jim and Tammy Show. Yet by the '90s, as her husband was disgraced by his marital infidelities and served a prison sentence for defrauding followers, Tammy Faye Messner began to look more spiritual. She stuck with Bakker as their multimillion-dollar PTL (Praise the Lord) empire crumbled, finally divorcing him in 1992. She promoted her faith, made fun of herself on Roseanne and other sitcoms and supported gay rights. ("We're all just people made of the same old dirt," she said.) After learning...
...Televangelist turned political innovator Jerry Falwell changed Washington by bringing politics to the pulpit. He was 73. (See page...
...cancer, saying she accepted the TIME 100 honor "only as a representative of all the men and women who are facing diagnoses like mine, and who continue to fight." NBC News anchor Brian Williams spoke of his heroes of broadcast journalism, Walter Cronkite and Morley Safer. Amr Khaled, the televangelist from Egypt, spoke passionately about young Islamic men and women who want peaceful co-existence with the rest of the world, and asked us to reach out our hands to them. Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson spoke of how astronomer Carl Sagan had generously offered his time and advice when Tyson...
...miracle," says John Paul Womble, director of development. The event sold out and the Alliance eventually moved to the much larger Armory. Nervous about filling such a large space, Womble got in touch with North Carolina resident Tammy Faye Bakker Messner - yes, that Tammy Faye, former wife of fallen televangelist Jim Bakker - and asked if she'd call the numbers. She agreed, and the Armory sold out. "Talk about surreal," says Womble. "I was standing on stage with Tammy Faye Bakker and 12 drag queens...