The Shady Side Of Jim Bakker

As one of the most notorious figures of the ’80s, televangelist Jim Bakker re-emerged from a headline-making scandal to stir the pot with multiple other controversies over the next few decades. This is the shady side of Jim Bakker. Back in the late 1970’s long before fellow televangelist Joel Osteen founded his megachurch — Jim Bakker and then-wife Tammy Faye Bakker were traveling Pentecostal preachers who created an evangelical puppet show for a Minnesota TV station. Their modest production caught the eye of popular televangelist Pat Robertson and, as Christianity Today reported, he helped launch their own talk show, The PTL Club. An acronym for “Praise the Lord,“ The PTL Club was compared by some to The Tonight Show, but for Christian audiences.