Predations by priests have been in the news lately, but unlike a few years back when every week a Bakker or Swaggart or other preachers, televangelists and assorted divines were tripping over their ...

In our "Books Change" series, historians of religion consider books that have changed us or have themselves been changed. In my copy of Elmer Gantry, one sentence is underlined six times: “He had, in ...

Elmer Gantry, the traveling evangelist who loved whiskey, women and wealth, was conceived by Sinclair Lewis in a best-selling 1927 novel and... Elmer Gantry, a Flawed Preacher for the Ages Elmer ...

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Here's how Signature bills the show, "The charismatic, but completely broke, salesman Elmer Gantry stumbles upon a struggling religious tour, led by pious evangelist Sister Sharon Falconer. Falling ...

Elmer Gantry is usually seen as the distillation of that hypocrisy and opportunism. That's not the Elmer Gantry of the opera, Phares said. "He's not evil, he's not unscrupulous," he said. "He's not ...

You probably didn't notice it, but that old rogue Elmer Gantry turned 80 this year. A surprising thought, perhaps, given what a fixture Sinclair Lewis's 1927 fictional portrait of a bogus and amoral ...

Wondering where to watch Elmer Gantry online? We have all the streaming details right here. Elmer Gantry is a comedy-drama that revolves around the duo of a charlatan and evangelist to spread the real ...

I once dated (briefly) a guy who sold steel. I kept asking him about steel––what it’s made of, what it’s used for––until one day he said in exasperation, “I don’t care about steel. I’d sell anything.” ...