List of television evangelists
This is a partial list of televangelists in the United States:
- Ernest Angley -- "rock music is the work of the devil", fabulously wealthy
- Garner Ted Armstrong -- rejected by his church, sex scandals
- Herbert W. Armstrong -- from advertising copywriter to god marketer
- Jim Bakker -- sex scandals, prison
- Tammy Faye Bakker -- worships her poodle
- Malcolm Boyd -- the gay priest
- John R. Brinkley -- "cured" impotence with goat glands
- Robert R. Brown
- Kirk Cameron -- god wants you to buy my stuff
- Morris Cerullo -- preaches "Christian Warfare"
- John A. Cherry
- Bruce Chesser
- Kenneth Copeland -- god wants you to buy my stuff
- Charles Coughlin was an extremely high-profile American radio evangelist from 1926 to 1940, a significant predecessor of televangelists and a staunch admirer of Hitler
- Paul Crouch -- gay sex scandal
- Curt Dodd
- Creflo Dollar -- god wants you to buy my stuff
- Richard Dortch -- fraud and conspiracy charges reduced for testifying against Bakker
- Jesse Duplantis -- god wants you to buy my stuff
- Frederick J. Eikerenkoetter III - (Reverend Ike) -- god hates poor people
- Jerry Falwell -- preaches gay hate
- Cheryl Fisher
- Charles E. Fuller -- Thirty years of radio preaching, opened a seminary
- Billy Graham -- "You are either a servant of Christ or a slave of Satan."
- Franklin Graham -- preaches Muslim hate
- Kerney Thomas -- miraculous birth, prayer handkerchiefs
- W.V. Grant -- investigated for fraud, prison
- John Hagee -- preaches Harry Potter hate
- Kenneth E. Hagin -- supernatural plagiarism
- Billy James Hargis -- tax troubles, sex scandal
- Marilyn Hickey -- god wants you to buy my stuff
- Benny Hinn -- bogus prophecies, under investigation by IRS (2005)
- Rex Humbard
- T.D. Jakes -- saves souls, builds businesses
- David Jeremiah
- Rev. Ollie Kendrick
- D. James Kennedy -- god wants you to buy my stuff
- Kathryn Kuhlman -- 1960's 1970's faith healer
- Bob Larson -- spokesman for satan
- Daniel Lubega
- Walter A. Maier
- Aimee Semple McPherson -- faked own kidnapping sex scandal, rumored to be buried with live telephone in case of resurrection
- Joyce Meyer
- Randy Morrison -- god wants common sense
- Steve Munsey -- "give me your money"
- Arnold Murray -- carries a gun
- Joel Osteen -- god wants you to buy my stuff
- Rod Parsley -- private jet
- Bishop Peter Paul Prang - fictional in Sinclair Lewis It Can't Happen Here
- Paul Rader --
- David Reagan
- Oral Roberts -- give me $8 million or god will kill me
- Pat Robertson -- hate-preaching billionaire
- James Robison -- helps people in Africa
- Peter Popoff -- preacher, businessman, magician
- Robert A. Schuller
- Robert H. Schuller -- crystal cathedral, criminal charges dismissed after plea deal
- Gene Scott - Sued Time Magazine for referring to him as a televangelist in a magazine article.
- Logan Sekulow --
- Kerry Shook
- Scott Shreve
- Terry Smith
- Ralph Sockman
- Ernest M. Stires
- Don Stewart
- Billy Sunday -- prohibition crusader died rich during great depression
- Jimmy Swaggart -- demon driven hooker habit
- Robert Tilton -- "being poor is a sin", takes the donation and dumps the prayer request
- James Tinsley Jr.
- Jack Van Impe -- god wants you to buy my stuff
- Rexella Van Impe -- god wants you to buy my husband's stuff
- Mike Warnke -- prince of lies
- Christine Wiech
- Zola Levitt -- god wants you to buy my jewish christian stuff