How Osteen came under fire for his tardy disaster response

It’s an indelible image: the wealthy televangelist who fleeces parishioners
with an inspiring message while emptying their pockets.
Anyone who remembers Jimmy Swaggart tearfully confessing to his sins, Jim
Bakker’s scandalous affair or Ted Haggard’s anti-gay moralizing while
hiring a male prostitute, has seen pious religious leaders who weren’t
everything they seemed to be.
Fairly or not, critics of Joel Osteen—the Houston-based senior pastor of
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