A 1987 photo of Tammy Faye Bakker Messner with then-husband Jim Bakker. File photo/AP With her signature clumpy mascara and a message that kept millions glued to their TV screens, Tammy Faye Bakker ...
Three decades after his PTL empire near Charlotte crumbled amid financial and sex scandals, Jim Bakker is back on TV with a different, darker message: The Apocalypse is coming and you better get ready ...
Now 78, with a white beard, Bakker is no longer the sunny, baby-faced preacher who co-hosted “The PTL Club” in the 1970s and ’80s with then-wife Tammy. She did the singing back then, often while ...