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Reviewing the upcoming release of Jakes’ movie, “Woman, Thou Art Loosed.”

DALLAS - Bishop T.D. Jakes isn’t easily intimidated.

He is, after all, a best-selling author of 29 books, a Grammy-winning gospel singer, a nationally renowned preacher and the subject of a 2001 Time magazine cover story that asked: “Is This Man The Next Billy Graham?”

Yet here he is, the 6-foot-2, 260-pound pastor with the famously recognizable shaved head, standing in his empty 8,000-seat seat sanctuary and talking about the daunting nature of his latest role – acting in his new movie, “Woman, Thou Art Loosed.”

“I won’t give up my day job,” jokes Jakes, the 47-year-old founding minister of The Potter’s House, a 30,000-member megachurch in Dallas. His sermons are broadcast nationally on the Trinity Broadcasting Network and Black Entertainment Television.

Lately, Jakes has balanced his pulpit duties with advance screenings across the country to promote his new movie, “Woman, Thou Art Loosed,” which deals with child molestation.

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