Nevertheless, sharp volleys were exchanged by their lawyers Tuesday even as other evangelists were drawn into the edges of the fray. They have not made themselves generally available to the press and apparently are not in contact with each other. Bakker dropped Swaggart’s television programs last year from his PTL network after Swaggart began endorsing author David Hunt, whose book “The Seduction of Christianity” strongly criticized many of the big evangelistic ministries, including friends of Bakker’s.īakker (pronounced Baker) did not think he could tolerate the “narrowness” of Swaggart on his network, said Jamie Buckingham, an editor at large at Charisma magazine, the leading Pentecostal publication in the country.īuckingham, who saw Bakker in Palm Springs on Tuesday, said he and other Christian leaders were working behind the scenes to “try to bring this thing to a peaceful conclusion.” At the same time, Buckingham said, he said he thinks God is saying to everyone who has become powerful in electronic ministries to scale down their ambitions, or as he put it, “that you can’t build your tower any higher.”īakker is in seclusion with his wife, Tammy Faye, in a Palm Springs home, and Swaggart is at an undisclosed location in Southern California.
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