Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aimee Semple McPherson became a star evangelist while living in L.A. Despite a mysterious disappearance that tarnished her ...

The title of Claire Hoffman’s new book, Sister, Sinner: The Miraculous Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Aimee Semple McPherson, promises miracles and scandals. Hoffman delivers with a fast-paced ...

Los Angeles has always been a city that prefers reinvention to tradition, making it the ideal incubator for new religious movements. From the beginning, its distance from the centers of institutional ...

She was a blend of P.T. Barnum, the colorful showman credited with declaring, "There's a sucker born every minute," and the infamous flamboyant televangelist couple Tammy Faye and Jim Baker who built ...

HBO’s Perry Mason takes viewers into the seedy underbelly of 1930s Los Angeles. We come into contact with Hollywood gangsters, corrupt LAPD officers, and in Perry Mason Episode 2, a cultish ...

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When the influencer Katie Sorensen posted on Instagram about the less than “clean cut” Latino couple who she said tried to kidnap her children outside a Bay Area Michaels in 2020, she credited her ...

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In 1926, Aimee Semple McPherson was a bona fide celebrity. The Canadian evangelist drew throngs of to her massive church, Angelus Temple, which still stands in Echo Park, and spread her message even ...

There are two kinds of Angelenos: Those who've heard of Aimee Semple McPherson and those who should. She was a showperson, a radio star, a publisher and writer, a beloved figure and a celebrity — hard ...

See more of our coverage in your search results. Add The New York Post on Google She was a blend of P.T. Barnum, the colorful showman credited with declaring, “There’s a sucker born every minute,” and ...