Televangelism has a long and inglorious history in America, studded with financial corruption and sexual scandals - and yet it thrives. It has grown into an entire, distinct branch of broadcasting, ...

Casablanca — MOROCCAN authorities have introduced a new weapon in the fight against Islamic extremism: 2,000 brand-new widescreen plasma TVs. They are to be placed inside mosques across the country in ...

Televangelist Jan Crouch died yesterday at the age of 78. Even if you’ve never heard her sermons, you’d probably recognize her image. She was known for enormous bouffant wigs – sometimes blonde, ...

Televangelist Pat Robertson's flip-flop on his fantasy moment as an international assassin reminds me of a famous, if possibly apocryphal, story about David Niven as told by Christopher Buckley. Niven ...

TULSA, Okla. -- Oral Roberts, a pioneer in televangelism who founded a multimillion-dollar ministry and a university that bears his name, died Tuesday. He was 91. Roberts died of complications from ...

Danny McBride is set to make a new pilot for HBO that’s sure to rustle some jimmies if it eventually makes it to air. According to Variety, The Righteous Gemstones is a half-hour comedy that will tell ...

You might laugh whenever you flip channels and see TV preachers shouting flamboyantly to crowds of applauding people, but on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, John Oliver explained the sinister reality ...

A year ago today the avalanche of Prometheus viral marketing began with a YouTube video from 2023.Peter Weyland addresses an oppressively lit audience from the center of an Orwellian amphitheatre: “We ...

Jimmy Swaggart, the reverend who rose to prominence during the golden age of televangelism in the 1980s before a prostitution scandal rocked his evangelical empire, has died. He was 90. The television ...

Genesis took direct aim at televangelists with their 1992 single “Jesus He Knows Me.” Originally released on the band's 1991 album We Can't Dance, the song’s structure came before any words were ...