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Died: Jimmy Swaggart, TV Minister Caught in Scandal

Died: Jimmy Swaggart, TV Minister Caught in Scandal

Tuesday, July 1, 2025
Jimmy Swaggart, the Louisiana televangelist whose name became a watchword for scandal, died in Baton Rouge at 90.  Swaggart was one of the best-known and most successful TV preachers in the 1980s, reaching an estimated half-billion people every week with riveting sermons about the struggle against sin and the good gift of God’s redeeming grace. Read more... The post Died: Jimmy Swaggart, TV Minister Caught in Scandal appeared first on Christianity Today.