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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 ...
Illustration from The Circuit Rider: A Tale of the Heroic Age by Edward Eggleston depicting a Methodist circuit rider on horseback. 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]
Jarena Lee (February 11, 1783 – February 3, 1864 [1]) was the first woman preacher in the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME). [2] Born into a free Black family in New Jersey, Lee asked the founder of the AME church, Richard Allen, to be a preacher. Although Allen initially refused, after hearing her preach in 1819, Allen approved her ...
Joel Osteen is one of the most familiar faces in American religion. The pastor who leads the Houston megachurch where a 5-year-old boy was critically wounded in a Sunday shooting that also hit a ...
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William M. Branham (1909–1965), preacher and prophet, pacesetter and initiator of the Tent Revival Era of the 1940s and 1950s; Merrill Unger (1909–1980), Old Testament professor at Dallas Theological Seminary, defender of biblical inerrancy; F. F. Bruce (1910–1990), apologist, one of the founders of the modern evangelical understanding of ...
Black women have been the backbone of the Black church and the vanguards of ministry, in and out of the The post Black women preachers who changed—and are changing—history appeared first on ...
Arthur Owen Blessitt (October 27, 1940 – January 14, 2025) was an American traveling Christian preacher who was known for carrying a cross through every nation of the world. [ 1 ] Background