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FAITH LEADERS
Bishop Kenneth H. Carter
Present (Modern Era)
Bishop Kenneth H. Carter is the resident Bishop of the Florida Conference of the United Methodist Church. He has provided spiritual oversight for almost 700 churches, campus ministries, and outreach initiatives across the Florida region and overseas. He is...
Eckhart Tolle
February 16, 1948- Present (Modern Era)
Eckhart Tolle is a German born spiritual teacher. Tolle described his early childhood to be unhappy, noting his fears and anxiety growing up in post-World War II Germany. In his early twenties, Tolle studied philosophy, psychology, and literature at the...
Elie Wiesel
September 30, 1928 - July 2, 2016 (Modern Era)
Elie Wiesel was a Romanian-born American who worked as a writer, professor and political activist. He was a Nobel Laureate and a Holocaust survivor who was held in both Auschwitz and Buchenwald. He authored nearly 60 books including Night which was based on...
Elizabeth Ann Seton
August 28, 1774-January 4, 1821 (Great Awakening)
Elizabeth Ann Seton was born into the Bayley family in 1774 in New York. Her mother died when she was three years old and her father remarried. When Seton was 19, she married William Magee Seton. William Seton suffered from tuberculosis for most of his life...
Elizabeth Johnson
December 6 1941 - Present (Modern Era)
Elizabeth Johnson became the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in theology from the Catholic University of America. She said she found her experience there to be "rich, respectful and collegial" but wished for more female rolemodels. She ended up attempting to...
Ellen G. White
November 26, 1827 - July 16, 1915 (Great Awakening)
Ellen Gould White is the founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Born Methodist, when she was 12, White’s family became involved in the movement following William Miller, who believed he had calculated the exact time of Jesus Christ’s...
Ernest Holmes
January 21, 1887-April 7, 1960 (Modern Era)
Ernest Shurtleff Holmes is a religious leader and founder of the Spiritual movement known as Religious Science. He was born on a small farm in Maine and spent most his childhood outdoors, asking questions relating to who God was. At the age of 18 he...
Evangeline Cory Booth
December 25, 1865 - July 17, 1950 (Modern Era)
Evangeline Cory Booth was the 4th General of the Salvation Army and the first woman to hold the post of General. She began working with the Army at a young age and became an officer in 1887 when she was 21 years old. She was appointed Field Commissioner...
Flannery O’Conner
March 25 1925 – August 3 1964 (Modern)
Flannery O'Conner was born in Savannah, Georgia in 1925. She attended the prestigious Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa and originally intended to study journalism. She came to be known in later life, however, for her short stories. She wrote...
Fr. Gregory Boyle
May 19 1954 - Present (Modern Era)
Gregory Boyle was born in Los Angeles and was ordained as a priest in 1984. Following his theological studies, Boyle spent a year working and living in Bolivia. Upon his return to the United States in 1986, he was appointed pastor of Dolores Mission Church,...
Harold Camping
July 19 1921–December 15 2013 (Modern)
Harold Egbert Camping was born in 1921 and came to be known for his radio broadcasts and repeated failures to predict the end of the world and the Second Coming. His most famous prediction was that Christ would return on May 21, 2011 and the Rapture would...
Harold Kushner
April 3 1935 - Present (Modern Era)
Harold Samuel Kushner was born in Brooklyn, New York and educated at Columbia University. He was ordained as a rabbi in 1960 by the Jewish Theological Seminary. He later served as the congregational rabbi of Temple Israel of Natick for 24 years and became...
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