Jakes

Bishop Jakes is now tight-lipped on the topic of homosexuality, because his son's arrest has the African American LGBTQ community abuzz with rumors resurfacing his own sexuality.

Irene Monroe: The messology of Bishop Eddie Long Irene Monroe 2010

Bishop Jakes is now tight-lipped on the topic of homosexuality, because his son's arrest has the African American LGBTQ community abuzz with rumors resurfacing his own sexuality.

Irene Monroe: The messology of Bishop Eddie Long Irene Monroe 2010

Bishop Jakes is now tight-lipped on the topic of homosexuality, because his son's arrest has the African American LGBTQ community abuzz with rumors resurfacing his own sexuality.

Irene Monroe: The messology of Bishop Eddie Long Irene Monroe 2010

Just one of many hiking trails found in Jakes Branch Park.

2009 February 27 « Beachwood Historical Alliance 2009

Just one of many hiking trails found in Jakes Branch Park.

Jakes Branch Park, Beachwood, Opens Sunday « Beachwood Historical Alliance 2009

Bishop Jakes is now tight-lipped on the topic of homosexuality, because his son's arrest has the African American LGBTQ community abuzz with rumors resurfacing his own sexuality.

Irene Monroe: The messology of Bishop Eddie Long Irene Monroe 2010

Just one of many hiking trails found in Jakes Branch Park.

2009 February « Beachwood Historical Alliance 2009

Jakes is an imposing presence: bald, six feet two inches tall, and with a nineteen-inch neck.

The Preacher 2006

You can get a sense of the “it” just by being wherever Jakes is present.

The Preacher 2006

Jakes is constructing a red-brick, Harvardesque building to house his Christian prep school called Clay Academy — the “clay” here refers to what “the potter” works with — which in turn will form the nucleus of a planned community of 1,500 households, with housing for the low-income as well as the affluent.

The Preacher 2006