Swaggart (1988): once described as ‘an equal opportunities bigot’ - Cindy Karp/Getty Images Jimmy Swaggart, who has died aged 90, was America’s most popular fire and brimstone televangelist until 1988 ...

Rev. Jimmy Swaggart died Tuesday at age 90, but the clip that survives isn’t of him preaching or playing gospel piano. It’s the one where he’s crying. In 1988, Swaggart — then America’s most famous ...

The spellbinding Pentecostal preacher became, for many, an example of what is wrong with Christianity. Jimmy Swaggart, the Louisiana televangelist whose name became a watchword for scandal, died in ...