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Christians Getting Real on Reality TV Pastor Alan Robertson: He looks just like his brothers, give or take a beard.
MEET DUCK DYNASTY’S NEW STAR:
PASTOR ALAN ROBERTSON ou may notice a new face on Robertson to tone down his preaching just A&E’s hit reality show Duck because he’s no longer behind the pulpit for Dynasty this season. 47-year- the first time in 22 years. Since the show debuted in 2012, family old preacher Alan Robertson, the only Robertson brother prayers, discussions about faith and good not yet featured on the show, old-fashioned Bible Belt family values have has announced he is leaving his job in the min- been a staple of Duck Dynasty. In an interview with the New York Post, Robertson said even istry to join his family on the show. The notably beardless Robertson is the eldest though he will no longer be in the full-time brother in the famous family that sells hunting ministry, he still sees himself as an evangelist. “What I do for our church—you products and stars in one of TV’s high“BECAUSE see, it’s a pretty good-sized church— est-rated reality shows. impacts a lot of people, but because Prior to joining the show this seaOF ... THE of my association with the show, I’ll son and becoming the family’s pubSHOW, I’LL get to minister to a lot more peolic relations manager, Robertson GET TO ple. Any person who’s an evangeserved as the full-time pastor of list, that’s what you want to do, so I White’s Ferry Road Church of Christ MINISTER TO had to give this up for something in Louisiana, the church the rest of A LOT MORE PEOPLE.” possibly bigger.” the family attends. But don’t expect
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FALL 2013 Preachers of LA debuts on Oxygen, showcasing the lavish lifestyles of some of So-Cal’s most popular pastors. SPRING 2013 The Bachelor’s Sean Lowe announces he and fiancé Catherine Guidici are saving themselves for marriage because of his faith. SPRING 2012 Ted and Gayle Haggard appear on Wife Swap along with “celebrity” couple Gary Busey and fiancé Steffanie Sampson. FALL 2008 The infamous Duggar family kicks things off, teaching Christian values to their many, many children.