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Jim Bakker

ジム・ベイカー　/　じむ・べいかー

American televangelist

January 2, 1940 (age 86)　・　Muskegon, Michigan, United States

Michigan
televangelist
television presenter

My Take

Jim Bakker is a figure I approach with more curiosity than judgment. From Muskegon, Michigan to the heights of televangelism with the PTL Club and his own Christian theme park, his rise and fall is one of the great American parables about faith, ambition, and television's power over the human heart. I am less interested in relitigating his sins than in what his story reveals: how completely a screen can magnify both conviction and appetite. The brighter a public figure burns, the deeper the shadow tends to fall, and few careers illustrate that as vividly. He remains a genuinely instructive cautionary tale.

Overview

James Orsen Bakker (; born January 2, 1940) is an American televangelist. Between 1974 and 1987, Bakker hosted the television program The PTL Club and its cable television platform, the PTL Satellite Network, with his then wife, Tammy Faye. He also developed Heritage USA, a now-defunct Christian theme park in Fort Mill, South Carolina.

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1. Profile

Name (English): Jim Bakker
Name (Japanese): ジム・ベイカー
Reading: じむ・べいかー
Born: January 2, 1940 (age 86)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Capricorn / Dragon
Origin: Muskegon, Michigan, United States
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
Agency: Private
Occupation: televangelist / television presenter

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Muskegon High School
University: North Central University

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

Private

6. Links

Wikipedia (Japanese)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim%20Bakker

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