James Reed

@archeohistories Kudos to you from a Foursquare pastor for surprisingly even-handed treatment of Sister Aimee. And about the movement she founded...with what's happening in Iran right now, it might be of interest to know that Foursquare has 80 house churches operating there.

She stepped off a train in Los Angeles in 1918 carrying three things that would end up changing her life—and, in a weird way, the city’s religious scene too: a Bible, a voice that could fill a hall without a microphone, and a natural feel for drama. It didn’t take long for Aimee Semple McPherson—“Sister Aimee” to the people who adored her—to become one of the most famous religious leaders in the country. And the timing mattered. This was an era when women were still battling for basic political power, yet there she was, standing in front of crowds that looked more like concert audiences than churchgoers, completely in control. Confident, sharp, and as commanding as any movie star a few miles down the road. In 1923, she opened Angelus Temple, a 5,300-seat church that basically functioned like a megachurch before anyone had a name for it. But it wasn’t just a building where people showed up to sit quietly and listen. It was an event. McPherson understood something a lot of traditional clergy didn’t—especially in Los Angeles: attention is currency. If you can hold it, you can move people. So she designed sermons the way Hollywood designed scenes. Props. Mood lighting. Big music. Full orchestras. Costumes. One night she’d come out dressed as a motorcycle police officer to talk about law, order, and morality. Another night she’d stage Bible stories like live theater—almost like the scripture had stepped off the page and onto a set. People didn’t just “attend.” They lined up. For hours. And she didn’t stop at the temple doors. She went where the future was going: the radio. McPherson became the first woman to preach a sermon over the airwaves, leaning into the technology instead of treating it like a threat. Suddenly, her message wasn’t limited to whoever could physically fit into Angelus Temple. It could travel. It could land in living rooms across the country. For her, faith wasn’t supposed to stay trapped inside four walls. Still, for all the spectacle, it wasn’t only performance. When the Great Depression hit, her ministry did real, on-the-ground work. The church fed thousands. They organized relief efforts, passed out clothing, and provided the kind of practical help that matters when people are choosing between rent and dinner. And the movement she founded—the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel—didn’t fade after the headlines moved on. It grew into a worldwide denomination that’s still active today. Then came 1926, and everything got messier. She vanished. For weeks, the story detonated across newspapers. Where did she go? Who took her? What really happened? When she reappeared, she said she’d been kidnapped and held in Mexico. The media storm that followed turned vicious. Investigators got involved. Critics called it a stunt. Supporters rallied around her and fought back just as loudly. The scandal didn’t end her influence—but it did permanently fuse her name with controversy, the kind that sticks even when people can’t agree on the truth. In the end, Sister Aimee is hard to pin down neatly. She was a preacher, yes—but also a performer. A builder. A humanitarian. A headline magnet. An enigma with a gift for reinvention. And in a city built on reinvention, she knew exactly how to make herself unforgettable. © Women In World History #archaeohistories

@Super70sSports Agreed, with the NBA a very close second.

Of all the sports that I loved as a kid, college basketball has fallen the farthest for me. I just don’t give a shit anymore. It used to be so good. Young people today can’t even understand what we know.

I asked Abigail what if one of her girls came home crying because she was forced to undress next to a man. Her silence was deafening.

Our campaign is backed by 80+ sheriffs — Republicans, Democrats, Independents. They know who actually protects them. Abigail took AOC PAC money to defund police and voted to strip qualified immunity. If she won’t protect them, she won’t protect YOU.

Children. Jay Jones fantasized about killing children. And Abigail still stands with him.

FBI agent John Guandolo explains Islam in under 3 minutes, and absolutely nails it. A must-watch for anyone who still doesn’t understand what’s really happening.

#Virginia "I didn’t run to make history – I just wanted to leave it better than I found it." - Lt. Governor Winsome Sears

SERIOUSLY??? I’ll be the first to say it: As your Governor, I WON’T be a polished politician—but I WILL fight every single day for the good people of the Commonwealth. 🇺🇸 VOTE WINSOME 11/4.

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Human Events has obtained undercover footage of an Abigail Spanberger campaign organizer laughing and rolling her eyes when discussing the campaign’s reaction to murder of Charlie Kirk

Spanberger’s running mate wants to murder his opponent’s children, while Spanberger’s staff think it’s funny when Christians are assassinated.

When I was about five or six years old, my uncle, who had never been religious and had lost all his wealth in a bad business deal in Kuwait after the Gulf War, decided to return to Allah and become a devout Muslim. I remember he went to Pakistan or Afghanistan for six months on a mission trip. When he came back, the first thing he did was drag our huge TV outside and throw it in the garbage and started taking me with him to the mosque five times a day. I grew up exposed to what was said inside the da’wah groups. My uncle was not a jihadi, but he was deeply involved in da’wah, Islamic evangelism. For years, I accompanied him during summers and weekends on mission trips across Jordan, visiting mosques around the country with other members of the da’wah movement. I still remember visiting Al-Hajar Mosque in the city of Zarqa, the same mosque of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, years before he became known. When I was eleven, my parents moved to another city, and I stopped going with my uncle. But when I was seventeen, the protests that erupted across the Islamic world after the Danish cartoons of Muhammad pulled me back to the mosque, and I spent another year with da’wah groups, until God miraculously changed my life and I converted to Christianity. Those years in the da’wah movement as a young kid gave me an exceptional ability to see through these people. The moment someone speaks, I can diagnose how infected he is with the spirit of jihad. I wish I could lend my eyes to Western governments so they could see how deeply their institutions have been infiltrated. The majority of those who present themselves as “moderate” or “normal” Muslims in Islamic organisations or Media, are on a mission. Once naturalized, they know exactly how to exploit the system to advance the goals of da'wah.

In CA, selling a puppy under eight weeks is a misdemeanor, subject to jail time. But separating a newborn from his mother minutes after birth is completely legal.

🚨 NEW from @EuroConOfficial: Päivi Räsänen will face the Finnish Supreme Court next month for the “crime” of tweeting a Bible verse. “This is a trial about the Bible. It is a trial to determine if we are still allowed to agree in public with the Bible.”

It is hard to imagine any candidate for any office could survive these revelations, but as far as I know he has not even lost a single endorsement.

Read ALL the texts. He not only says he wants to kill them and piss on their graves. He then explains his reasoning, saying the only way to move people on policy is with violence. AND says that his political opponents “breed” little fascists. @SpanbergerForVA?

It’s time for Christians all over the world to start talking about Nigeria. More than that, what can we do to stop Muslims from murdering so many Christians there? There are reports of over 50,000 Christians who have been murdered since 2000, in Nigeria. It’s difficult to know what the real numbers are because the Nigerian government is lying to everybody about them.

WOW. Kid’s show Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous on Netflix is pushing woke garbage on CHILDREN. Isn’t it just supposed to be about dinosaurs? How many of these lgbtq propaganda shows are there on @netflix???

Video has resurfaced of Virginia Democrat nominee for Lieutenant Governor Ghazala Hashmi giving a stump speech a few months ago next to an upside-down American flag and a tombstone for the U.S. Constitution.

They are trying to destroy your children’s innocence. Netflix’s children’s show CoComelon Lane just featured a little boy wearing a princess dress for his two gay “dads.” Don’t let your kids watch CoComelon. Boycott Netflix.