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 ...
Aimee Semple McPherson was barefoot when she left Room 202 at the Ocean View Hotel. Wearing only a bathing suit, a dressing gown, and a swim cap, McPherson—the founder of one of America’s first ...
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 ...
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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Journalist Hoffman (Greetings from Utopia Park) offers a vivid biography of Aimee Semple McPherson (1890–1944), an evangelical leader and radio pioneer whose ascendance to near-sainthood was shattered ...
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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