After considering rock singer Prince and a...

After considering rock singer Prince and a Fundamentalists Anonymous leader, editors of the satirical humor magazine, The Wittenburg Door, have chosen Jessica Hahn as their “theologian of the year.”

Editors at the evangelical-oriented magazine, based in El Cajon, said with tongue in cheek that “candidates” included Prince, whose “LoveSexy” album they termed “a hedonistic collection of theological gibberish,” and Richard Yao, a founder of Fundamentalists Anonymous whom they regarded as an evangelist-in-reverse during a published interview in the same issue of the bimonthly.

But Hahn, who lived last year at the Playboy Mansion and made a topless and a later nude appearance in Playboy magazine following the 1987 revelations of her sexual encounter with then-PTL evangelist Jim Bakker, won the hearts of Senior Editor Mike Yaconelli and his colleagues at The Door.

“In the September, 1988, issue of Playboy, Jessica was able to crystallize theologically the relationship between faith and nudity, sex and heaven, Pleasing God and Pleasing Myself, and much, much more,” they wrote.

The editors quoted Hahn’s advice published in Playboy to those who have hurt: “I spoke with God and asked for a miracle. The next day Playboy called. That was my miracle. Don’t give up hope.”

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