...Aimee Semple McPherson: Biography Aimee Semple McPherson was an evangelical leader in the 20th Century. McPherson was determined to spread her Pentecostal faith, developing followers from all over the United States and Canada. A recognized religious leader in American history, McPherson has long been the subject of films, poems, novels and songs. Despite being known as one of the most influential evangelist of her time, McPherson was also a complex, uncontainable and contentious public figure. She was a woman advanced of her time, defying traditional roles for women. McPherson established an evangelistic ministry, wildly known worldwide as the Foursquare Church. Perhaps one of McPherson’s appealing characteristics was her ability to identify with ordinary people, drawing myriads of loyal followers throughout her evangelical journey. Born in a farm on October 1890 in Ingersoll, Ontario, Canada, McPherson was brought up in a devoted Christian home. Her father, James was a farmer and her mother Minnie worked with the poor in Salvation Army soup kitchens. When Darwinism was introduced in her school during her teenage years, McPherson began to question the Bible. When she was seventeen years old and still in high school, she attended a revival service conducted by Pentecostal evangelist Robert Semple, where she heard the message of repentance and a born-again experience. Although she resisted the message, the Holy Spirit continued to speak to her heart, convicting her of the sin...
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...Aimee Semple McPhearson was born on October 9, 1890 in Ingersoll, Ontario, Canada. Her parents were farmer named Mildred and James Kennedy. McPhearson met her first husband Robert James Semple at a revival. He was a Pentecostal evangelist. After the wedding they began missionary work all over the world, including china in 1910. Unfortunately, Robert contracted malaria and died the same year while Aimee was pregnant. McPhearson decided to go to the United States with her daughter where she met her second husband Harold Stewart McPherson, who she had a son with in 1913. McPhearson began evangelizing all over the country. She became very popular and even one of her revivals had an attendance of over 30,000 people. In 1923, she went to Los Angeles where she opened the Foursquare Church. In 1924 she became very interested in public radio. It was a place where she could tell her message to millions of people at one time all over the country. She was the first woman in history to preach over the radio. She died in 1944 of an accidental drug overdose (This Is My Task) During this time in the United States, women did not have a lot of rights and were still treated as second class citizens. Women did not receive suffrage until 1920. Women were expected to just stay at home and obey their husbands. The United States was also in World War I at this time, where women were only allowed to participate by serving as nurses or preparing food for the soldiers. The 19th amendment of the Constitution...
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...Michigan native Amanda Egerer is a performing folk musician and New Evangelization student at JPCatholic. Her ardent faith and liveliness shines through her work and onto those around her. She shares her journey of how she got to where she felt called God her to be and the release of her new album. Amanda was coincidently passing through Escondido while on a spring break trip to the San Diego Zoo when she discovered JPCatholic. The 23-year-old expressed, “It was kind of crazy, everything happened so quickly.” After spotting the university on the Cardinal Newman Guide, her love of performing arts and media led her directly to JPCatholic. “I had never experienced something that had worked out so well. It was serendipity.” After graduating from high school in 2012, Egerer, originally pursuing classical music, studied for two years at a community college before deciding to take some time off school. Amanda shares she discerned the religious life for this period of time. “In discerning religious life, I eventually had to let go of my pride and realized I was called to marriage.” During this time off, Amanda also continued to search for what she was called to do artistically. “I discovered folk music through listening to the Avett Brothers. I loved it so much I began to look up female folk musicians and Joan Baez came up. After hearing her songs- which I found to be so beautiful- it was like home, exactly what I had been looking for.” In addition to singing, Amanda continued...
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...It was an exciting epoch where women of different races and social classes were able to fully participate, have authority, and become leaders, preachers, and missionaries. The reason women were able to obtain authority in spiritual life was because they believed that spiritual gifts were accessible by everyone. Under those circumstances, women were able to use their gifts as a platform to be heard and respected by men. For example, Aimee Semple McPherson, who converted to Pentecostalism, became a famous evangelist during the 20th century. She healed the sick and the spiritually broken people. She used “ modern media (especially radio) as vehicles for evangelization” (pg 209) which helped her become widely known and respected by...
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...The charismatic movement1 began within the historic churches in the 1950s. On the American scene it started to attract broad attention in 1960, with the national publicity given to the ministry of the Reverend Dennis Bennett, an Episcopalian in Van Nuys, California. Since then there has been a continuing growth of the movement within many of the mainline churches: first, such Protestant churches as Episcopal, Lutheran, and Presbyterian; second, the Roman Catholic (beginning in 1967); and third, the Greek Orthodox (beginning about 1971).2 by now the charismatic movement has become worldwide and has participants in many countries As one involved in the movement since 1965, I should like to set forth a brief profile of it.3 A profile of the charismatic movement within the historic churches would include at least the following elements: (1) the recovery of a liveliness and freshness in Christian faith; (2) a striking renewal of the community of believers as a fellowship of the Holy Spirit; (3) the manifestation of a wide range of "spiritual gifts," with parallels drawn from 1 Corinthians 12-14; (4) the experience of "baptism in the Holy Spirit," often accompanied by "tongues," as a radical spiritual renewal; (5) the reemergence of a spiritual unity that essentially transcends denominational barriers; (6) the rediscovery of a dynamic for bearing comprehensive witness to the Good News of Jesus Christ; and (7) the revitalization of the eschatological perspective. In one sense, Charismatics...
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...CALIFORNIA CALIFORNIA An Interpretive History TENTH EDITION James J. Rawls Instructor of History Diablo Valley College Walton Bean Late Professor of History University of California, Berkeley TM TM CALIFORNIA: AN INTERPRETIVE HISTORY, TENTH EDITION Published by McGraw-Hill, a business unit of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 1221 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020. Copyright © 2012 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Previous editions © 2008, 2003, and 1998. No part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written consent of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., including, but not limited to, in any network or other electronic storage or transmission, or broadcast for distance learning. Some ancillaries, including electronic and print components, may not be available to customers outside the United States. This book is printed on acid-free paper. 1234567890 QFR/QFR 10987654321 ISBN: 978-0-07-340696-1 MHID: 0-07-340696-1 Vice President & Editor-in-Chief: Michael Ryan Vice President EDP/Central Publishing Services: Kimberly Meriwether David Publisher: Christopher Freitag Sponsoring Editor: Matthew Busbridge Executive Marketing Manager: Pamela S. Cooper Editorial Coordinator: Nikki Weissman Project Manager: Erin Melloy Design Coordinator: Margarite Reynolds Cover Designer: Carole Lawson Cover Image: Albert Bierstadt, American (born...
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...Acclaim for Chuck Palahniuk’s Choke “Just as dark and outrageous as his previous work. … His voice is so distinctive that he exists as a genre unto himself.” —The Washington Post “Palahniuk’s language is urgent and tense, touched with psychopathic brilliance, his images dead-on accurate. … [He] is an author who makes full use of the alchemical powers of fiction to synthesize a universe that mirrors our own fiction as a way of illuminating the world without obliterating its complexity.” —LA Weekly “Puts a bleakly humorous spin on self-help, addiction recovery, and childhood trauma. … Choke’s funny, mantra-like prose plows toward the mayhem it portends from the get-go.” —The Village Voice “Oddly, defiantly, addictive.” happily —Daily News “[Choke] shines a flashlight into America’s dark corners. … As darkly comic and starkly terrifying as your high school yearbook photo.” —GQ “Palahniuk is a gifted writer, and the novel is full of terrific lines.” —The New York Times Book Review “[Palahniuk’s] most enduring trait … is that marvelous quicksilver voice of his. … The exuberance of his language makes it still worthwhile to brave these often chilly and dark waters.” —The Oregonian “Choke is another welcome antidote to antiseptic consumer life, and you can’t blame it for grabbing you by the throat.” —Maxim “Palahniuk is a cult writer in the truest sense.” —Entertainment Weekly “His subversive riffs conjure a kind of jump-cut cinema of the diseased imagination, resulting...
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