Richard Bolles Parachute Pastor
Bolles wrote the best-known job-hunting guide ever.
From This is True for 2 April 2017
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Theologians and religious figures who actually practiced what they preached
William Keeler Cardinal
He was the first bishop to expose “priests who had been credibly accused of child abuse.”
From This is True for 26 March 2017
Everett Parker The Reverend
A preacher, Parker demanded the FCC to hold a TV station accountable. The FCC declined, but Parker won in court, setting new standards.
From This is True for 27 September 2015
Bernard Mayes Queer priest
Mayes founded the U.S.’s first suicide prevention hotline — and helped organize PBS. And then….
From This is True for 26 October 2014
Frans van der Lugt Jesuit priest
He cared for the sick and the hungry, not caring if those helped were Christians or Muslims.
From This is True for 13 April 2014
Sister Antonia Brenner Prison nun
Brenner decided to chuck it all, sold everything, became a nun, and moved in to a prison.
From This is True for 20 October 2013
Will D. Campbell Maverick Minister
“He was on the human side, no matter what human. He loved all humans in the great spectrum of life.”
From This is True for 9 June 2013
William Hamilton Atheist theologian
Hamilton’s ideas led TIME magazine to ask in big red letters on a cover, ‘Is God Dead?’
From This is True for 4 March 2012
Gordon Negen Freedom Rider
A pastor who walked — and sat — his talk.
From This is True for 2 October 2011
Franklin H. Littell Anti-Nazi minister
“When Franklin Littell started his work, it was almost the case that there was no such thing as Holocaust studies as a field.”
From This is True for 31 May 2009