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    The Preachers: Jim & Tammy Faye: Part 4.

    Jim Bakker in screen captures from his current show, “The Jim Bakker Show”. (Google Images)   This has been one long, crazy story. Nearly unbelievable, except, very true. Sadly true. As a…

    November 23, 2017
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    Flashback Friday: That way awkward dinner party at Bobby Kennedy’s in May ’63.

    James Baldwin, left, and Bobby Kennedy. (Google Images)   By the time Robert F. Kennedy was killed in 1968, he had come to be viewed by many as a politician who cared…

    November 17, 2017
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    The Preachers: Jim and Tammy Faye: Part 3.

    Image and caption from PTL.   When PTL fell apart, I was just 5. I didn’t know about the sex scandals, but I do remember my parents discussing the Bakkers’ outsized lifestyle.…

    November 15, 2017
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    The Preachers: Jim & Tammy Faye: Part 2.

      Jim and Tammy Faye (Image Source)   It was thirty years ago that the tremendous house of cards that Jim Bakker had constructed out of TV ministry, millions in donations, and…

    November 12, 2017
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    The Preachers: Jim & Tammy Faye: Their Incredible Rise & Shocking Fall.

    Jim And Tammy Faye Bakker in all their 1980s glory. (Image Source)   I started composing this post months ago. I stopped partially because my blogging, as a whole, slowed way down…

    November 11, 2017
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    Some Sunday Stuff: September 24th.

    Happy Sunday! It’s been a couple of months since my last “Some… Stuff”, so let’s kick off the start of Fall with some links, shall we? (Getty Images)   First up, this…

    September 24, 2017
  • Throwback Thursday: Kick, push, kick, push, coast.

    Note: This post first appeared on my old blog, “Because Thou Mayest”, on April 27, 2016. ~Alisha   Kathleen “Kick” Kennedy Cavendish (Source) I just wrapped “Kick Kennedy: The Charmed Life and…

    September 7, 2017
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    Flashback Friday: Orson Welles & The “Voodoo MacBeth”.

    (Image Source: Inverse)   It’s mind boggling to me, but back in the 1930s, during the height of the Great Depression, the federal government paid a then-unknown, and very young Orson Welles…

    September 1, 2017
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    Flashback Friday: Dick Gregory, John Lennon, and “Imagine”.

    John Lennon, Yoko Ono and Dick Gregory. (Image Source: Yoko Ono’s Twitter account)   Dick Gregory, comedian, entertainer, and civil rights activist, died last Saturday, August 19th, at the age of 84.…

    August 25, 2017
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    Flashback Friday: Eldridge Cleaver- From Panther to PTL.

    Kathleen and Eldridge Cleaver in the early 1970s. (Image Source) I’m currently reading “PTL:”The Rise and Fall of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker’s Evangelical Empire” by John Wigger. Spoiler alert: my next…

    August 18, 2017
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