Tammy Faye Bakker
‘Tammy Faye’ is now an Elton John musical, to premiere in London this fall
By Kathryn Post — August 23, 2022
(RNS) — The show about the evangelical icon will open at north London’s Almeida Theatre in October.
Actress Jessica Chastain looked at more than ‘The Eyes of Tammy Faye’ for new movie
By Adelle M. Banks — September 15, 2021
(RNS) — Tammy Faye Bakker taught ‘everyone is deserving of God's love and grace,’ said Chastain.
PTL! Andrew Garfield, Jessica Chastain to star as Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker in biopic
By Emily McFarlan Miller — June 2, 2021
(RNS) — The biopic also will depict a number of other evangelicals who were prominent during the 1980s, including Jerry Falwell Sr., Jimmy Swaggart and Pat Robertson.
What Jerry and Becki Falwell can learn from Jim and Tammy Bakker
By John Wigger — September 1, 2020
(RNS) — Both Jim Bakker and Jerry Falwell Jr. were entrepreneurs who drove the Christian nonprofits they ran to great heights only to be done-in by their personal failings.
With first solo CD in 9 years, CeCe Winans keeps singing – and pastoring
By Adelle M. Banks — June 4, 2017
(RNS) Her album includes the sounds of big bands and Motown as well as tunes aimed at millennials — like those who attend Nashville Life Christian Church, the nondenominational congregation she and her husband co-pastor in Tennessee.
BeBe Winans’ life story on stage
By Adelle M. Banks — May 12, 2016
WASHINGTON (RNS) The black gospel singer credits scandal-smeared televangelists Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker with introducing his sister and him to “a white Christian audience.”
Beneath the stereotypes, a stressful life for preachers’ kids
By Daniel Burke — May 2, 2013
(RNS) Between the stereotypes of preachers' kids as either goody two-shoes or devilish hellions lies a tense and sometimes taxing reality, the children of clergy say. Just ask Franklin Graham.
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