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FAITH LEADERS
Maimonides
1135-December 1204 (Late Medieval)
Maimonides was born in Cordoba, Spain in the 1130's. When he was a teenager, Muslim fundamentalists conquered Spain and forced many Jews and Christians to convert. Maimonides family fled repeatedly, but evidence suggests that eventually they were forced to...
Mark Burnett
1960 -
Mark Burnett is a British television producer and the current chairman of MGM Worldwide Television Group. He’s best know for creating and producing the reality show “The Apprentice,” along with “Survivor,” “The...
Martin Luther King, Jr.
January 15, 1929 - April 4, 1968 (Modern Era)
Martin Luther King, Jr. was a PK—a preacher’s kid. His father was pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church (where Junior would eventually preach as well) and head of the local NAACP chapter in Atlanta, Georgia. When King was a junior in high school,...
Mary Baker Eddy
July 16, 1821--December 3, 1910 (Great Awakening)
Mary Baker Eddy was born Mary Morse Baker in New Hampshire in 1821. She was the youngest of six children and was frequently ill as a child. She experienced near invalidism as a child and seems to have suffered from an eating disorder. One of her bouts of...
Meister Eckhart
1260-1328 (Late Medieval)
Eckhard is believed to have been born in the Landgraviate of Thuringia in modern day Germany. The first solid evidence found for his life comes from April 1294 when he spoke as a lecturer on "Sentences" by Peter Lombard. In the early 1300's, Eckhart was made...
Moses
Between 14th and 16th century BC
Moses was the prophet who led the captive Israelites out of Egypt during the Exodus. He later becamet the leader of the Israelites and brought the Law to them in the form of the Torah. He is considered the most important prophet in Judaism and is central to...
Oral Roberts
January 24 1918 – December 15 2009 (Modern Era)
Granville Oral Roberts was born in Ada, Pontotoc County, Oklahoma in 1918. He was ordained in both the United Methodist and Pentecostal Holiness churches and worked to bring Pentecostalism into mainstream Christianity in America. As a preacher, he emphasized...
R.C. Sproul
February 13,1939- December 14, 2017 (Modern Era)
Robert Charles Sproul is a theologian and ordained pastor in the Presbyterian Church in America. Sproul grew up in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania where sports were a major part of his life. At the age of 15, Sproul dropped out of high school athletics to help take...
Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
1975-
Danya Ruttenberg is an American rabbi, editor, and author. She’s written several books, on top of contributing to numerous publications and news outlets before her ordination in 2008.
Early Life
Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg was born on...
Rachel Adler
July 2, 1943 - Present (Modern Era)
Rachel Adler was one of the first theologians to use feminist ideas and concerns to study Jewish texts and the renewal of Jewish laws and ethics. This led her to create and host a women's Talmud class in her home. She taught the women there the text in its...
Rachel Held Evans
June 8 1981 - Present (Modern Era)
Rachel Held Evans was born in Birgmingham, Alabama and attended Bryan College. She majored in English literature and graduated in 2003. She spent several years working at various newspapers before she began writing pro bono as a humor columnist. In 2008, she...
Reinhold Niebuhr
June 21, 1892–June 1, 1971 (Modern Era)
Karl Paul Reinhold Niebhur was born in Missouri in 1892. He was one of the leading public intellectuals in America for several decades of the 20th century and spoke frequently about the intersection of religion and politics. He originally made a commitment...
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