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| Born | Jamie Charles Bakker December 18, 1975 |
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| Website | revolutionchurch |
Jamie Charles "Jay" Bakker (born December 18, 1975) is an American pastor, author, and speaker. He is the son of televangelists Jim Bakker and Tammy Faye Messner.
During his young adult years, Bakker became disillusioned with mainstream Christianity, becoming particularly critical of Christian fundamentalism and the Christian right.[2] He later adopted a much more liberal form of Christianity and became a co-founder of Revolution Church, which was created in 1994 in Phoenix, Arizona.[3] Bakker then preached at Revolution's Atlanta location before pastoring the New York City branch of Revolution Church, which held services at the bar and venue Pete's Candy Store, in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn until Bakker relocated to Minneapolis in 2013 and began pastoring another iteration of Revolution Church there. Much of Bakker's story was retold in a documentary on Sundance Channel called One Punk Under God: The Prodigal Son of Jim and Tammy Faye. His story has also been chronicled in Time Magazine.[4]
- ^ Jay Bakker (January 23, 2011). "Finding Jesus, in Drag". Huffington Post. Retrieved October 1, 2013.
- ^ "From Lost Soul to Punk Pastor". Archived from the original on 10 April 2013.
- ^ [1] Archived January 16, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "From Jim and Tammy Faye to Evangelical Punk Preaching: Q&A; with Jay Bakker". Time. 15 March 2011. Archived from the original on March 19, 2011. Retrieved 6 December 2014.