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Jim Bakker’s in the news again. We asked out news editor @danielsilliman, who is also an evangelical historian, to look back at Bakker in the CT archives for a #CThistory thread.
@danielsilliman .@danielsilliman: What ever else you can say about Jim Bakker, the longtime televangelist has a talent for spectacle and crisis. Evangelicals have often been embarrassed by that, but Bakker also prompts some critical self reflection.
@danielsilliman Bakker is best known for his sex scandal and big resignation in 1987, but almost a decade before that he was in another kind of crisis: financial.

CT reported in 1978:

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