Remember this lovely and loving Christian couple?"For Jay Bakker, a preacher with perhaps the most notorious surname in modern Christianity, family is never very far away—even here at Pete's Candy Store, a subway car-sized rock club in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, which has served as home base for his Revolution ministry since relocating from Atlanta in August. On a recent Sunday afternoon, Jay's father, disgraced televangelist Jim Bakker, could be seen sitting at the foot of Pete's stage along with his second wife and a dozen or so dreadlocked and tattooed Revolution churchgoers.
"Me and my dad have had a strange relationship these last ten years," says Jay, by way of introducing his father's guest sermon. "When he got out of prison, I was a raging alcoholic. That didn't quite work out." The two only recently began speaking again after a two-year silence, and with Tammy Faye—Jay's mother and Jim's ex-wife—in the hospital with stage-four cancer, they're making an effort to reconcile.
Like every other personal event in the Bakker family story, this one has an audience. Two cameramen crouch on either side of the stage. One is trained on Jim as he takes his seat on a rickety stool and arranges his notes on the junior-high-issue music stand that serves as Revolution's pulpit. The other drinks in Jay's every fidget and strained smile as he watches his father's familiar performance. "I've never preached in a bar before, so that's liberating," says Jim Bakker, flashing his made-for-TV smile at the skeptical crowd. "I'm really more nervous here than being on television."
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