The scope of the vast wealth he accumulated during the course of his career as America’s best know Evangelist and preacher. The utter depravity and corruption that was part and parcel of Jimmy’s Christian revivalism became known, not only for the salaciousness of his sick and filthy escapades with hookers ,but also noted for the depth of his hypocrisy as much as My Fellow Christians: It’s been many years since the scandals revolving around the Swaggart ministry of televangelism made headlines in America, and all over the world. Swaggart’s television ministry continues airing around the world. The California incident came three and a half years after he gave his infamous “I have sinned” speech, after he was secretly photographed with a prostitute at a seedy New Orleans motel.Ĭaught with a hooker for the second time in less than four years, Swaggart told his congregation that “demon spirts” were responsible for his troubles.Ĭolumnist Paul Bedard on the expanded Washington Examiner magazine 11, in 1991, television preacher Jimmy Swaggart was found, for the second time, in the company of a prostitute when he was pulled over by the California Highway Patrol for driving on the wrong side of the road. In the end, the author sees Jimmy as a victim – like many others – of a primitive faith colliding with the forces of the late 20th century fame. It is the story, too, of the rapid rise of the Religious Right, with its competing personalities and ideologies. A major theme of the book is how the religious ecstasy of Pentecostalism – the rousing music, the speaking in tongues, the reception of the Spirit – combined with its severe sexual repression leads to the kind of furtive acting out that brought down not only Jimmy Swaggart but also other evangelists. This the tale of the rise of two intimately linked colossi of the American century: Pentecostalism, the fastest growing religious movement in the world, and its “evil twin”, Rock ‘n’ Roll. But then, in a cheerless motel west of New Orleans, Jimmy’s life and ministry took a calamitous turn.
By 1987 Swaggart was one of the most popular video preachers in the world, with a weekly television audience of 2.1 million in the US and a worldwide audience of millions more in 143 countries.
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