![]() ![]() It's also the story about its price: exhaustion, insomnia, nervous breakdowns, sexual scandals, loneliness, and the notorious public disgrace that nearly destroyed her. But this is not just a story of McPherson's cult of fame. She prayed for the healing of hundreds of thousands of people, founded the Foursquare Church, and built a Pentecostal temple in Los Angeles of Hollywood-epic dimensions (Charlie Chaplin advised her on sets). Her ministry was rolled out in tents, concert halls, boxing rings, and speakeasies. She preached up and down the United States, traveling in a 1912 Packard with her mother and her children-and without a man to fix flat tires. Sister Aimee is the story of a unique woman of the power of passion that rejects compromise and a faith that will not be shaken. Once she answered the divine calling, Aimee Semple McPherson rose fast from unfulfilled housewife in Rhode Island to "miracle woman"-the most enigmatic, pioneering, media-savvy Christian evangelist in the country. The true story of America's first superstar evangelist that "fills a significant gap in the history of revivalism" ( The New York Times Book Review). ![]()
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