Jimmy Swaggart, Baton Rouge: the fiery Pentecostal preacher whose global television ministry once defined an era of American evangelicalism—and whose dramatic public downfall in the late 1980s became a cultural flashpoint—died early Tuesday morning, July 1, at age 90. According to his family, Swaggart had suffered cardiac arrest on June 15 and passed away peacefully at a Baton Rouge hospital. Once one of the most recognized voices in religious broadcasting, Swaggart’s rise was as meteoric as his fall was public. At the height of his influence in the 1980s, his ministry reached millions of households across more than 100 countries…