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How Aimee Semple McPherson Turned Preaching Into Hollywood Spectacle and Changed Faith Forever

“What matters the trail, so long as the goal is reached?” Aimee Semple McPherson asked Sunset magazine, but she solved it all her life. During the raucous 1920s, when churches held fast to tradition, ...
PBS

The Angelus Temple

On January 1, 1923, at 2:15 p.m., Aimee Semple McPherson opened the 5,300 seat Angelus Temple to the public. Thousands of people streamed into the domed concrete building across from Los Angeles' Echo ...
The New York Times

AN OBJECT LESSON SERMON; Rev. G.H. Denison Illustrated His Remarks on "The Causes that Keep Men Down." BALLOONS, BOTTLE, SCISSORS Members of the Church Of the Sea and Land Co ...

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The Times of Israel

A Collection for Shavuot: Sermons, Not Artefacts

Unlike the other Chagim of Pesach and Succot, Shavuot lacks obvious symbols and practices, such as the lulav and etrog or the Seder plate and matzah. What then would I have in my collection relevant ...