television evangelist
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Lewis was born Sept. 29, 1935, in Ferriday, Louisiana, and grew up poor with two cousins also destined for fame - television evangelist Jimmy Swaggart and country singer Mickey Gilley.
From Reuters • Oct. 28, 2022
Another target was the US television evangelist Peter Popoff, who was hugely popular in the mid-1980s for his so-called faith-healing activities.
From The Guardian • Oct. 25, 2020
Pastor Mark Driscoll, founder of the Mars Hill megachurch in Seattle, has made a point of distancing himself from the old television evangelist style of the 1980s.
From Salon • Feb. 21, 2014
He graduated with a B.A. from Ouachita Baptist University in 1976 and soon went to work for James Robinson, a television evangelist.
From BusinessWeek • May 15, 2011
That some viewer will be relieved of his gastric pains just as a television evangelist calls out the symptoms is considerably more likely than that a particular viewer will be.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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