Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aimee Semple McPherson became a star evangelist while living in L.A. Despite a mysterious disappearance that tarnished her ...
Our culture supports so many types of celebrity—online influencers, YouTube stars, Hollywood actors, reality-TV contestants—that it is easy to forget how recent this market saturation is. In the early ...
Los Angeles has always been a city that prefers reinvention to tradition, making it the ideal incubator for new religious movements. From the beginning, its distance from the centers of institutional ...
In 1926, Aimee Semple McPherson was a bona fide celebrity. The Canadian evangelist drew throngs of to her massive church, Angelus Temple, which still stands in Echo Park, and spread her message even ...
She was a blend of P.T. Barnum, the colorful showman credited with declaring, “There’s a sucker born every minute,” and the infamous flamboyant televangelist couple Tammy Faye and Jim Baker who built ...
Largely unknown today, Aimee Semple McPherson, born Aimee Kennedy in 1890, was the most widely known evangelist between 1915 and her death in 1944. Founder of the Four-Square Gospel Church, she was a ...
Los Angeles has always been a city that prefers reinvention to tradition, making it the ideal incubator for new religious movements. From the beginning, its distance from the centers of institutional ...