Fallen televangelists find afterlife on the Internet
In their heyday of the 1970s and 80s, televangelists like Jimmy Swaggart and Jim Bakker drew in hundreds of thousands of worshipers and millions of dollars before scandal and corruption gutted individual ministries and then the entire genre.
Now, however, the Internet has made it easy and inexpensive to distribute video sermons around the world, breathing new life into virtual ministries and even providing a second act for a few infamous televangelists, a Canadian researcher says.