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An itinerant preacher (also known as an itinerant minister) is a Christian evangelist who preaches the basic Christian redemption message while traveling around to different groups of people within a relatively short period of time. [1] The usage of these travelling evangelists is known as itineracy or itinerancy. [2] [3]
Leap of Faith is a 1992 American comedy-drama film directed by Richard Pearce and starring Steve Martin, Debra Winger, Lolita Davidovich, Liam Neeson, and Lukas Haas.The film is about Jonas Nightengale, a Christian faith healer who uses his revival meetings to milk money out of the inhabitants of Rustwater, Kansas.
Elmer Gantry is a 1960 American drama film about a confidence man and a female evangelist selling religion to small-town America. Adapted by director Richard Brooks, the film is based on the 1927 novel of the same name by Sinclair Lewis, and stars Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Arthur Kennedy, Shirley Jones and Patti Page.
Circuit riders, also known as horse preachers, were clergy assigned to travel around specific geographic territories to minister to settlers and organize congregations. [1] Circuit riders were clergy in the Methodist Episcopal Church and related denominations, although similar itinerant preachers could be found in other faiths as well ...
The Miracle Woman: 1931 August 7 Frank Capra The Sign of the Cross: 1932 November 30 Cecil B. DeMille The Last Days of Pompeii: 1935 October 18 Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack San Francisco: 1936 June 26 W. S. Van Dyke, D. W. Griffith Boys Town: 1938 September 9 Norman Taurog Angels with Dirty Faces: 1938 November 26 Michael Curtiz The ...
Migwi is on the front lines of a war against a silent epidemic of gender-based violence in Kenya, where almost 60 women have been killed since the beginning of the year, according to the government.
Films about evangelicalism, a worldwide interdenominational movement within Protestant Christianity that affirms the centrality of being "born again", in which an individual experiences personal conversion; the authority of the Bible as God's revelation to humanity (biblical inerrancy); and evangelism.
Also, the Progressive National Baptist Convention discussed get-out-the-vote opportunities for Harris at the denomination’s recent annual meeting, according to Religion News Service.