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Alcohol during and after prohibition

Upon ratification of the amendment, the famous evangelist Billy Sunday said that "The slums will soon be only a memory. We will turn our prisons into factories and our jails into storehouses and corncribs." (Compare Christianity and alcohol.) Since alcohol was to be banned and since it was seen as the cause of most, if not all, crime, some communities sold their jails.

Ames almanack

George Whitefield, an English evangelist, created controversy in the colonies with his Great Awakening sermons.

Anil Dash

Previously an independent technology consultant and new media developer for the Village Voice, Dash was the first employee of Six Apart, the makers of Movable Type, TypePad, and Vox, and served as its Vice President and Chief Evangelist until moving to Expert Labs.

Annie Taylor

Annie Royle Taylor (Hannah), British evangelist to China and Tibetan explorer

Avara

He wanted to show the technology to a gaming evangelist and was readying the demos on a PowerBook in the main hall at the San Jose Convention Centre when Stuart Cheshire (the author of Bolo for Macintosh) happened to sit right behind him and see what Juri was doing.

Bank of Scotland

A controversial period in the Bank's history was the attempt in 1999 to enter the United States retail banking market via a joint venture with evangelist Pat Robertson.

Barney Coombs

The main thrust of this group was that a return of the 'charismatic gifts' (i.e. prophecy and speaking in tongues) to the traditional denominations was not sufficient, and that the church needed to be restored to the New Testament forms of church government as described in St. Paul's epistle to the Ephesians - Apostle, Prophet, Evangelist and Pastor/Teacher (Eph 4:11).

Cambusbarron

Evangelist and writer Henry Drummond (1851–1897), although born in Stirling, lived for much of his early life in Cambusbarron, and founded a Sunday school in the village.

Celestial Church of Christ

Following Jesse's death, his faction declared that Superior Evangelist Paul Suru Maforikan was the new spiritual leader of the church.

Chautauqua, Illinois

Arriving first by packet boat, and later by automobile or the trains that ran by as often as six times a day, the vacationers were entertained, educated, and inspired by such luminaries like William Jennings Bryan, evangelists Sam Jones, Billy Sunday and Gypsy Smith, the Swiss Bell Ringers, John Philip Sousa’s band and "Sunny Jim," reputed to be one of the Theodore Roosevelt’s Rough Riders.

Church of Saint John the Evangelist, Kilkenny

The Church of Saint John the Evangelist, or John's Church, is a Gothic Revival style church in Kilkenny, Ireland.

Cornwall Furnace, Alabama

Evangelist Samuel Porter Jones worked at the furnace some time after the Civil War operating an ox cart.

Earl Hunt

Earl Gladstone Hunt, Jr. (1918–2005), American Methodist pastor and evangelist

Flaminio Vacca

His sculptural work can be seen in Rome in the grandiose funeral chapel of Pope Pius V designed by Domenico Fontana at the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore (Saint Francis), in the Church of the Gesù (one of four marble angels in the third chapel on the right) and in the right transept of the Chiesa Nuova (Saint John the Evangelist and Saint John the Baptist, both signed).

Fred J. Cook

Cook's 1964 book, Goldwater: Extremist on the Right, initiated a series of events which in the end led to the Supreme Court decision in what is known as the Red Lion case: After the book appeared, Cook was attacked by conservative evangelist Billy James Hargis on his daily Christian Crusade radio broadcast, on WGCB in Red Lion, Pennsylvania.

Georges Diebolt

He treated with equal eclecticism religious subjects such as Saint John the Evangelist (placed on the first story of the tower of Saint-Jacques in Paris during its 1852 restoration) and modern themes, such as the 1854 Maritime Victory on the pont d'Austerlitz.

Hector Honore

He was brother-in-law of noted Baptist Evangelist Robert Sumner.

Honor Oak Christian Fellowship Centre

The centre was the ministry base for its founder, the British evangelist and writer, T. Austin-Sparks, who had previously been the minister of the Honor Oak Baptist Church from 1921 to 1926.

Ignatius Bonomi

The church of St John the Evangelist, Nenthead (1845, the highest church in England) was one of their joint projects.

Irvin Baxter, Jr.

According to his website, Mr. Baxter became intensely interested in Bible prophecy at the age of 20, when a visiting evangelist taught that the four beasts of the book of Revelation, chapter four, were Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.

IT Leader Forum

In 2011 Dean Nelson, Senior Director, Global Foundation Services - Ebay Technical Operations addressed attendees via a video interview, and Matt Wood, Technology Evangelist for Amazon Web Services, joined the panel via video conferencing.

Jerusalem Christian Review

The newspaper includes contributions and endorsements by well known Christian and political figures, including Christian psychologist James Dobson, Christian Broadcasting Network president Pat Robertson, Evangelist Franklin Graham, former Southern Baptist president Charles Stanley and Seventh-day Adventist leader George Vandeman.

Johann Evangelist Götz

Johann Evangelist Götz (Polish: Jan Ewangelista Goetz; born November 16, 1815, Langenenslingen in the County of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, died March 14, 1893, in Brzesko, Poland) was a German-Polish brewer, the founder of the Okocim Brewery and father of Jan Albin Goetz (also known as Jan Albin Goetz-Okocimiski) and the grandfather of Antoni Jan Goetz (Antoni Jan Goetz-Okocimiski).

John Darby

John Nelson Darby (1800–1882), 19th-century Anglo-Irish evangelist and religious writer

Justina of Padua

The tombs of several saints are housed in the interior, including those of Justina, Prosdocimus, St. Maximus, St. Urius, St. Felicitas, St. Julian, as well as relics of the Apostle St. Matthias and the Evangelist St. Luke.

Kalyan Varma

An active evangelist of Free Software and Creative Commons, he is an expert on Application security and cryptography.

Lady of Knock

The song tells of the story of Knock in County Mayo, Ireland when the Virgin Mary, St. Joseph and St. John the Evangelist appeared at the south gable of Knock Parish Church.

Leo Chamberlain

He retired as Master in 2007 and was succeeded by Felix Stephens and became parish priest of St John the Evangelist Catholic Church, Easingwold, Yorkshire.

Lucy Page Gaston

After the war, with alcohol prohibition in place, some felt (e.g. evangelist Billy Sunday) that tobacco prohibition would soon follow.

Mark Rutland

The committee had been formed following the resignation of the school's former president, evangelist and son of the institution's namesake, Richard Roberts, in 2007.

Mooloolaba, Queensland

Evangelist Peter Foxhall and Pastor Bill Furler pioneered an Assemblies of God church at the Mooloolaba Surf Lifesaving Club in the mid-1980s.

Robert Govett

His maternal grandfather was William Romaine (1714–95), the famous eighteenth century pastor and evangelist, and the author of "The Life, Walk and Triumph of Faith".

Ronald Hall

He became friends with young Chinese Christian leaders, including T. Z. Koo (Gu Ziren), an evangelist, and Y. T. Wu, founder of the Three-Self Patriotic Movement in China.

S. J. Berchmans

Dr DGS Dhinakaran, a well known Tamil evangelist and founder of Jesus Calls ministries.

Sison, Pangasinan

It is under the jurisdiction of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Urdaneta (from the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lingayen-Dagupan, Archdioecesis Lingayensis-Dagupanensis, created on May 19, 1928, elevated to Archdiocese on February 16, 1963, comprising the capital of the province, 2 cities and 15 municipalities in the central part of Pangasinan; Suffragans: Alaminos, Cabanatuan, San Fernando, La Union, San Jose, Nueva Ecija and Urdaneta; Titular: St. John the Apostle and Evangelist).

St John's Church, Bath

John the Evangelist Roman Catholic Church is located on the South Parade in the south-east section of Bath City Centre – the old Ham District where John Wood the Elder, the Georgian architect, had originally planned his gigantic "Forum".

St John's Theological College

St John's College, Auckland (formally The College of St John the Evangelist ), New Zealand

Team OS/2

Ultimately, at least some of Microsoft's efforts were exposed on Will Zachmann's Canopus forum on CompuServe, where the owner of one particular account, ostensibly belonging to "Steve Barkto", (who had been attacking OS/2, David Barnes, Whittle, and other OS/2 fans) was discovered to be funded by the credit card of Rick Segal, a high-level Microsoft employee / evangelist, who had also been active in the forums.

The National Crittenton Foundation

The National Crittenton Foundation's roots are in the social movement created by New York evangelist and millionaire Charles Nelson Crittenton, who founded the Florence Crittenton Night Mission in 1883 in New York City.

Voice of the Faithful

VOTF began when a small group of parishioners met in the basement of St. John the Evangelist Church in Wellesley, Massachusetts, to pray over allegations that a priest had abused local youngsters.

WEBR-CD

Some of the programing came from out of market religious ministries such as international evangelist Reverend Dr. Jaerock Lee sermon series (this still airs everyday over GCN), Quick Study, Day Of Discovery, and some of the promo programing throughout most of the day for a couple of weeks.

Whitefield, Maine

Whitefield is named for the celebrated British evangelist George Whitefield, who inspired the colonists before the town was settled in 1770, mainly by Irish Catholics.

Winged lion

The emblem of the Republic of Venice as the heraldic symbol of St. Mark the Evangelist, the patron saint of the Republic.

WLFJ-FM

Programming includes music by such artists as Casting Crowns, TobyMac, MercyMe, Michael W. Smith, Mark Harris, Laura Story, Steven Curtis Chapman, Jeremy Camp, Avalon, Toby Mac, and Mark Schultz, as well a few family ministries such as those of Dr. James Dobson and Charles Stanley.

Wommack

Andrew Wommack, American conservative Evangelical Christian TV evangelist

Yates County Genealogical and Historical Society

The Scherer Carriage House is located behind the Underwood Museum and is the home to the exhibit of evangelist Jemima Wilkinson.

Caroline Underwood Museum with historic decorative arts items and displays of local history, and the adjacent Scherer Carriage House that features exhibits about local evangelist Jemima Wilkinson.


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