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People from this movement emigrated to North America, where they formed the Swedish Evangelical Mission Covenant of America. Early leaders and influences included Carl August Björk (1837–1916) Paul Petter Waldenström (1838–1917) and David Nyvall (1863–1946), among others.
In 1940, Fifield gave a speech to the National Association of Manufacturers at the Waldorf Astoria New York where he praised capitalism and business leaders, while denouncing Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal. The speech, which underlined that Christian leaders and religious arguments were crucial in the effort to promote a free-market ...
Maria Woodworth-Etter (1844–1924), was an American healing evangelist. Her ministry style served as a model for Pentecostalism. William Mitchell Ramsay, (1851–1939), archaeologist known for his expertise in Asia Minor; R. A. Torrey (1856–1928), American evangelist, pastor and educator and one of the founders of modern evangelical ...
While Christian Leaders Institute does not explicitly promote any individual Christian tradition [13] and multiple theological ideas may be presented in any individual course, materials are primarily presented from an Evangelical and Reformed perspective, as a significant portion of the staff, instructors, and administration are tied to the Christian Reformed Church or attended the church's ...
The Christian Connection was a Christian movement in the United States of America that developed in several places during the late 18th and early 19th centuries, composed of members who withdrew from other Christian denominations. It was influenced by settling the frontier as well as the formation of the new United States and its separation ...
When their discontent could not be contained, forceful black leaders followed what was becoming an American habit—they formed new denominations. In 1787, Richard Allen and his colleagues in Philadelphia broke away from the Methodist Church and in 1815 founded the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church , which, along with independent black ...
In 2000, the coalition moved from Chesapeake, Virginia, to a large office on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. Combs is the current president and CEO of the Christian Coalition of America. She is a founding state director and has been the only woman on the board of directors in the history of the Christian Coalition of America.
The NCC also published until 2012 the annual Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches, since 1916 a widely used reference work on trends, statistics and programmatic information on religious organizations in North America. Future editions of the yearbook will be published by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB).