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 ...
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The wild story of America’s pioneering ‘mega’-preacher Aimee Semple McPherson — and her mysterious disappearance
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 ...
There are two kinds of Angelenos: Those who’ve heard of Aimee Semple McPherson and those who should. She was a showperson, a radio star, a publisher and writer, a beloved figure and a celebrity — hard ...
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 ...
The title of Claire Hoffman’s new book, Sister, Sinner: The Miraculous Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Aimee Semple McPherson, promises miracles and scandals. Hoffman delivers with a fast-paced ...
In “Sister, Sinner,” Claire Hoffman tells the stranger-than-fiction story of Aimee Semple McPherson, whose mysterious life made headlines in the 1920s. By Sarah Pulliam Bailey Raised in an evangelical ...
When the influencer Katie Sorensen posted on Instagram about the less than “clean cut” Latino couple who she said tried to kidnap her children outside a Bay Area Michaels in 2020, she credited her ...
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