televangelists
Broadcast ministry personalities
Televangelists are Christian preachers who conduct their ministry primarily through television broadcasts.
The term blends television and evangelist, and often carries connotations of showmanship, emotional appeals for donations, and occasional scandal: Another televangelist caught in a financial scandal.
Some televangelists lead megachurches and media empires.
Clergy who deliver sermons
- sermonsReligious talks to congregations
- gospelSacred choral tradition
- salvationDeliverance from harm
- faith healingTreatment through religious practice
prosperity gospel · born-again · scripture · ministry · altar call · revivals · crusades · congregation
Gifts to organizations
- tithesReligious tenth-part contributions
- offeringsThings presented or given
- pledgesFormal promises given
- merchandiseCommercial products offered
books · CDs · DVDs · nonprofit · tax-exempt · wealth · prosperity · blessed
Mass signal transmission
- cableHeavy-duty woven line
- networksInterconnected groups or channels
- airtimeScheduled transmission period
- viewersPeople who watch
ratings · syndication · satellite · programming · infomercials · TBN · religious broadcasting · pledge drives
Intentional criminal trickery
- embezzlementFraudulent taking of entrusted assets
- sexual misconductImproper intimate behavior
- hypocrisyPretense of virtue
- exposéInvestigative journalism piece
downfall · confession · tears · forgiveness · lawsuits · investigation · tax evasion · luxury
preachers
Clergy who deliver sermons
faith healing · prosperity gospel · born-again · scripture · ministry · altar call · revivals · crusades · congregation · anointing
donations
Gifts to organizations
- tithesReligious tenth-part contributions
- offeringsThings presented or given
- pledgesFormal promises given
merchandise · books · CDs · DVDs · nonprofit · tax-exempt · wealth · prosperity · blessed · abundance
broadcasting
Mass signal transmission
- cableHeavy-duty woven line
- networksInterconnected groups or channels
- airtimeScheduled transmission period
viewers · ratings · syndication · satellite · programming · infomercials · TBN · religious broadcasting · pledge drives · toll-free
Billy Graham
American televangelist, presidential confidant
fraud
Intentional criminal trickery
- embezzlementFraudulent taking of entrusted assets
- sexual misconductImproper intimate behavior
- hypocrisyPretense of virtue
exposé · downfall · confession · tears · forgiveness · lawsuits · investigation · tax evasion · luxury · mansions
- healersnurse, doctor, physician, surgeon, medic
- show-offsbraggarts, boasters, showboats, grandstanders, egotists
- American ChristianityBaptists, Methodists, Presbyterians, Lutherans, Episcopalians
- Church disputesschism, Great Schism, Arian controversy, Monophysitism, iconoclasm
- clergypriest, bishop, pope, nun, monk
- faith healingfaith healing, faith healers, faith healer, divine healing, healing prayer
televangelistsparish priests
Local church leaders
Trappist monks · hermits · desert fathers · confessors · chaplains