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The Islamic prophet Muhammad came to the city of Medina following the migration of his followers in what is known as the Hijrah (migration to Medina) in 622. He had been invited to Medina by city leaders to adjudicate disputes between clans from which the city suffered, and was received positively by the city's Jewish and pagan residents as an ...
William Saunders Crowdy (August 11, 1847 – August 4, 1908) was an American soldier, preacher, entrepreneur and pastor. He was also one of the earliest known Black Hebrew Israelites in the United States, he established the Church of God and Saints of Christ in 1896 after he claimed to have had visions telling him "That blacks were descendants of the twelve lost tribes of Israel".
David Eldon Lasley (August 20, 1947 – December 9, 2021) was an American recording artist, singer, musician and songwriter. [1] [2] He was best known as a touring background singer for James Taylor, as a session singer on recordings by artists including Taylor, Bonnie Raitt, Luther Vandross, Chic, Aretha Franklin, Dionne Warwick, Bette Midler, Cher, Dusty Springfield and Boz Scaggs; as a ...
Lastly he served as pastor at St. James United Church in Montreal, Quebec. Douglas retired from the pastorate to write full time. His biographer, Louis Sheaffer, comments, "he never stated publicly why he changed denominations." [citation needed] Douglas's first novel, Magnificent Obsession, published in 1929, was an immediate success.
Richard A. Horsley was the Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and the Study of Religion at the University of Massachusetts Boston until his retirement in 2007. [1]He described his view of the historical Jesus in these words (Jesus and the Spiral of Violence, pp. 207–208):
Robert Bunger Thieme, Jr. (April 1, 1918 – August 16, 2009) was pastor of Berachah Church, a nondenominational Christian church in Houston, Texas, from 1950 to 2003.. Affectionately called "the Colonel" by his congregation, he was a dispensationalist theologian who wrote over a hundred books and conducted over 10,000 sermons on various theological topics during his 55 years as a p
Jay Kesler (born September 15, 1935) is the former president, Chancellor and current President Emeritus of Taylor University in Upland, Indiana. [1] [2] Kesler graduated in 1958 from Taylor University and is notable for his writings and radio work. [3] Most recently, he served as the Preaching Pastor of Upland Community Church, in Upland ...
Parley Parker Pratt Sr. (April 12, 1807 – May 13, 1857) was an early leader of the Latter Day Saint movement whose writings became a significant early nineteenth-century exposition of the Latter Day Saint faith.