Sen. Jason Rapert of Bigelow, a fiddler and minister and businessman with offices in Conway, reminds me a bit of a young Jimmy Swaggart. He speaks in that earnest preacher’s tone in fervent advancement of compellingly superficial themes. Then he wilts...

And Winters describes a man who, though he may have been sloppy at times (especially early in his ministry) about finances, was thoroughly honest. These characteristics gave Falwell credibility that public sinners like Jimmy Swaggart and Jim Bakker...

Now, thanks to new leadership like Mart Green and Dr. Mark Rutland, Oral Roberts University is experiencing a rebirth and explosion in growth, but only because it’s in fresh, new hands. Scandals crippled the media ministries of Jimmy Swaggart and Jim...

A cousin of Jerry Lee Lewis and televangelist Jimmy Swaggart, Gilley took a fall a few years back that paralyzed him from the neck down. After some intense rehab, Gilley returned to the stage in 2010 and hasn't missed a date since. For a 76-year-old...

I strike out. Nada, nothing, zilch. $80 bucks a month and nothing whatsoever to watch. It's not until I get to the butt-end of the programming spectrum that I start to get excited. There's old from-sin-to-salvation Jimmy Swaggart with a stackful of...

Some might recognize the man in the frame: the late Oral Roberts, America's original celebrity televangelist and faith healer, the Oklahoma preacher who rammed Pentecostalism into the American mainstream and the taproot out of which bloomed Pat...