Subscribe for analysis that goes beyond the noise. Back in the late 1980s, Bakker and Jimmy Swaggart were universally ridiculed for sexual and financial improprieties. Many thought that Bakker’s fraud ...

John Oliver's scintillating HBO program Last Week Tonight has criticized everything from FIFA to government surveillance to the food industry. His latest segment, which tackles televangelists who reap ...

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 ...

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, ...

Once one of the most popular televangelists in the U.S., the Rev. Robert H. Schuller is watching his life's work crumble. His son and recent successor, the Rev. Robert A. Schuller, has abruptly ...

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 ...

Daystar is that low-budget religious channel that you flip past when you’re searching for something watchable on TV. You might have lingered for a few seconds once or twice, momentarily transfixed by ...

Rex Humbard, a frontrunner in televangelism who ministered to millions of weekly viewers—including Elvis Presley—died September 21. Humbard died of natural causes at a hospital near his Florida home, ...

Carlson also may have been tweaking his fellow Fox star Sean Hannity, who has hosted Graham dozens of times for friendly chats on his show this year. Senior Media Reporter Fox News host Tucker Carlson ...

It turns out the health-care vote in Congress was a Waterloo, although Sen. Jim DeMint, the South Carolina solon who predicted as much, got a few details wrong. That is the estimation, anyway, of ...