With all the eulogizing of her mascara and false eyelashes, it's easy to forget that the PTL scandal surrounding Tammy Faye Bakker and her husband Jim dealt an immense blow to American evangelicalism when it broke in 1987.

Perhaps no one outside the Bakkers' immediate friends and...

Fessing up to his Clinton impeachment-era affair to Focus on the Family founder James Dobson last week looked like Newt Gingrich's attempt to come clean to the GOP's "pro-family" base in advance of a possible presidential run. But the fact that Dobson allowed Gingrich onto his national radio platform in...