Sister Aimee

Author : Daniel Mark Epstein
Publisher : HMH
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780547544984

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Sister Aimee by Daniel Mark Epstein Pdf

The true story of America’s first superstar evangelist that “fills a significant gap in the history of revivalism” (The New York Times Book Review). Once she answered the divine calling, Aimee Semple McPherson rose fast from unfulfilled housewife in Rhode Island to “miracle woman”—the most enigmatic, pioneering, media-savvy Christian evangelist in the country. She preached up and down the United States, traveling in a 1912 Packard with her mother and her children—and without a man to fix flat tires. Her ministry was rolled out in tents, concert halls, boxing rings, and speakeasies. She prayed for the healing of hundreds of thousands of people, founded the Foursquare Church, and built a Pentecostal temple in Los Angeles of Hollywood-epic dimensions (Charlie Chaplin advised her on sets). But this is not just a story of McPherson’s cult of fame. It’s also the story about its price: exhaustion, insomnia, nervous breakdowns, sexual scandals, loneliness, and the notorious public disgrace that nearly destroyed her. A “powerhouse biography of perhaps the most charismatic and controversial woman in modern religious history,” Sister Aimee is, above all, the life story of a unique woman, of the power of passion that rejects compromise, and a faith that would not be shaken (Kirkus Reviews). “[Told] with insight, empathy and lyrical power . . . Daniel Mark Epstein sees the facts, and feels the mystery, and he has written a remarkable book.” —Los Angeles Times

Author : Edith Waldvogel Blumhofer
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1993-12-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0802801552

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Aimee Semple McPherson by Edith Waldvogel Blumhofer Pdf

A religious leader who strongly identified with ordinary folk, she attracted hundreds of thousands of loyal followers throughout the United States and Canada.

Author : Nancy Barr Mavity
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1931
Category : Evangelists
ISBN : UCAL:$B295995

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Sister Aimee by Nancy Barr Mavity Pdf

Author : Silvia Sheafer
Publisher : Infobase Learning
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Biography
ISBN : 9781438147901

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Aimee Semple McPherson by Silvia Sheafer Pdf

After a devastating missionary trip to China on which her husband died, Aimee Semple McPherson refused to give up her dream of winning new souls to Christianity.

Author : Roberts Liardon
Publisher : Whitaker House
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2000-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781603741712

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God's Generals by Roberts Liardon Pdf

In God’s Generals, Roberts Liardon will help you recapture God’s glory with compelling spiritual biographies of some of the most powerful ministries to ever ignite the fires of revival. Liardon faithfully chronicles their lives in this work, along with their teachings, their spiritual discoveries, and many revealing photos. Four of God’s Generals who you will meet include: William J. Seymour, the son of ex-slave, who turned a tiny horse table on Azusa Street, Los Angeles, into an internationally famous center of revival Aimee Semple McPherson, the glamourous and flamboyant founder of the Foursquare Church and the nation’s first Christian radio station Smith Wigglesworth, the plumber who read no book but the Bible—and raised the dead! Kathryn Kuhlman, the beloved evangelist whose miracle-filled meetings drew millions of skeptics to faith

Author : Judith M. Buddenbaum
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313346897

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Religious Scandals by Judith M. Buddenbaum Pdf

This volume looks at headline-grabbing scandals involving American religious figures from the 19th century to the present, showing how the media and society in general reacted to these controversies. Religious Scandals brings together real-life controversies involving men and women of faith, from the media frenzy over the 1811 New York blasphemy case of People v. Ruggles that shaped American law for well over 100 years to the 2008 government raid on the fundamentalist Mormon Yearning for Zion community in Texas. Religious Scandals focuses on two types of subjects: religious figures whose lapses put them at the center of scandals involving sex, money, or crime; and those who scandalized their fellow citizens by acting out according to their own religious beliefs. Together, these stories—some familiar, some little known—offer a fascinating portrait of American religious culture, as well insights into the role of the media in religious scandals, constitutional protections of religious freedom, and the overriding issue of public curiosity versus individual privacy.

Author : Chas H. Barfoot
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317544203

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Aimee Semple McPherson and the Making of Modern Pentecostalism, 1890-1926 by Chas H. Barfoot Pdf

Pentecostalism was born at the turn of the twentieth century in a "tumble-down shack" in a rundown semi-industrial area of Los Angeles composed of a tombstone shop, saloons, livery stables and railroad freight yards. One hundred years later Pentecostalism has not only proven to be the most dynamic representative of Christian faith in the past century, but a transnational religious phenomenon as well. In a global context Pentecostalism has attained a membership of 500 million growing at the rate of 20 million new members a year. Aimee Semple McPherson, born on a Canadian farm, was Pentecostalism's first celebrity, its "female Billy Sunday". Arriving in Southern California with her mother, two children and $100.00 in 1920, "Sister Aimee", as she was fondly known, quickly achieved the height of her fame. In 1926, by age 35, "Sister Aimee" would pastor "America's largest 'class A' church", perhaps becoming the country's first mega church pastor. In Los Angeles she quickly became a folk hero and civic institution. Hollywood discovered her when she brilliantly united the sacred with the profane. Anthony Quinn would play in the Temple band and Aimee would baptize Marilyn Monroe, council Jean Harlow and become friends with Charlie Chaplain, Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford. Based on the biographer's first time access to internal church documents and cooperation of Aimee's family and friends, this major biography offers a sympathetic appraisal of her rise to fame, revivals in major cities and influence on American religion and culture in the Jazz Age. The biographer takes the reader behind the scenes of Aimee's fame to the early days of her harsh apprenticeship in revival tents, failed marriages and poverty. Barfoot recreates the career of this "called" and driven woman through oral history, church documents and by a creative use of new source material. Written with warmth and often as dramatic as Aimee, herself, the author successfully captures not only what made Aimee famous but also what transformed Pentecostalism from its meager Azusa Street mission beginnings into a transnational, global religion.

Author : Donald J. Richardson
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781452099927

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Between the Darkness and the Light by Donald J. Richardson Pdf

Alexandria Hodgeman represents a composite of many people I have known, Catholic and non-Catholic, senior citizens and middle-aged. Her search for definition--for the meaning of her life--I intend as the type of search anyone ought to be pursuing, especially someone who is eighty-nine years old. Her wisdom is the concomitant of her advanced years. However, I doubt that she would permit me or anyone else to call her old. Despite the challenges of advanced years, she still thinks like a young person, remaining optimistic while searching for answers. Alexandrias life has been lived in service to others, despite her lack of total awareness of this. She would modestly protest against anyone offering her thanks or recognition, deserved though they are. Although certainly not a model, Alexandria is intended as a positive example of what one person can do, what one person can accomplish for others while simultaneously serving her God.

Author : James Roman
Publisher : Museyon
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781938450761

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Chronicles of Old Los Angeles by James Roman Pdf

There's more to Los Angeles than lights, camera, action! From the city's early, devilish days populated by missionaries, robber barons, oil wells and orange groves, Chronicles of Old Los Angeles explains how the Wild West became the Left Coast. Learn how Alta California became the 31st state, and how ethnic waves built Los Angeles—from Native Americans to Spaniards, Latinos and Asians, followed by gangsters, surfers, architects and the Hollywood pioneers who brought fame to the City of the Angels. Then, discover the city yourself with six guided walking/driving tours of LA's historic neighborhoods, profusely illustrated with color photographs and period maps.

Author : Matthew Avery Sutton
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674027039

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Aimee Semple McPherson and the Resurrection of Christian America by Matthew Avery Sutton Pdf

Aimee Semple McPherson was the most flamboyant and controversial minister in the United States between the world wars, building a successful megachurch, a mass media empire, and eventually a political career to resurrect what she believed was America's Christian heritage. Sutton's definitive study reveals the woman as a trail-blazing pioneer, her life marking the beginning of Pentecostalism's advance to the mainstream of American culture.

Author : Aimee Friedman
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780545283922

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The Year My Sister Got Lucky by Aimee Friedman Pdf

From bestselling author Aimee Friedman, an acclaimed story about sisters, lies, and laughter -- now in paperback!Katie and Michaela Wilder are New York City girls...and best friends. But everything changes when they move upstate to rural Fir Lake. Katie is horrified by their new surroundings: the too-friendly neighbors, the lack of a subway, the fact they live near actual cows. She's shocked when Michaela adapts to the country life effortlessly, dating a cute football player and attending homecoming with something resembling enjoyment.And most shocking of all? She's started keeping secrets from Katie.

Author : Hughes Oliphant Old
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 735 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010-02-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780802817716

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The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures in the Worship of the Christian Church, Vol. 7 by Hughes Oliphant Old Pdf

The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures in the Worship of the Christian Church is a multivolume study by Hughes Oliphant Old that canvasses the history of preaching from the words of Moses at Mount Sinai through modern times. In Volume 1, The Biblical Period, Old begins his survey by discussing the roots of the Christian ministry of the Word in the worship of Israel. He then examines the preaching of Christ and the Apostles. Finally, Old looks at the development and practice of Christian preaching in the second and third centuries, concluding with the ministry of Origen.

Author : Ian W. Shaw
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780700635504

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Into the Sunset by Ian W. Shaw Pdf

On October 5, 1892, the last of the major outlaw gangs of the Old West was destroyed in a gun battle in Coffeyville, a small town in southeastern Kansas. When the smoke cleared, eight men were dead and three others were seriously injured. Four of the dead were members of the notorious Dalton Gang: Dick Broadwell, Bill Powers, and two brothers, Bob and Grat Dalton. A fifth outlaw, twenty-one-year-old Emmett Dalton, was captured alive but with twenty-three bullet and buckshot wounds. Emmett Dalton not only survived Coffeyville but prospered. After serving a fourteen-year prison term at the Kansas state penitentiary, he moved to Southern California. In a world completely foreign to him, he published two accounts of his and his brothers’ exploits (both of which were made into movies) and became a celebrity who worked with the first generation of Hollywood cowboys and one of Los Angeles’s most respected property developers. Ian Shaw’s Into the Sunset is the remarkable story of Emmett Dalton and how he and his brothers drifted from one side of the law to the other in the frontier lands of the late nineteenth century. It is the story of shoot-’em-ups and train robberies, of the closing frontier, and of what desperate men in desperate times do to survive. Following Dalton to California, Shaw tells the story of how Emmett was able to live a life that would become the stuff of legend and achieve the level of success that was once the object of each member of the Dalton Gang.

Author : Richard W. Etulain,University of New Mexico. Center for the Southwest
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0826334725

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Western Lives by Richard W. Etulain,University of New Mexico. Center for the Southwest Pdf

The life stories of many individuals are woven together to tell the history of the American West from the earliest days of westward expansion to the twentieth century.

Author : Daniel Mark Epstein
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1994-06-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1417706090

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Sister Aimee by Daniel Mark Epstein Pdf

Describes the evangelist's youth, her ministry, and the scandals that nearly destroyed her