Jeron Criswell King ( August 18, 1907 – October 4, 1982 ), born Jeron Criswell Konig, and known by his stage-name The Amazing Criswell (), was an American psychic known for wildly inaccurate predictions.

Kim Criswell ( born July 19, 1957 ) is an American musical entertainer and actress.

There are, for instance, numerous prominent US examples, including The Catholic Theological Union in Chicago, the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, Criswell College in Dallas, the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois, and Dallas Theological Seminary.

The Southern Baptist theologian W. A. Criswell was born in Eldorado in 1909.

Criswell, veteran pastor of the First Baptist Church of Dallas, Texas, was born in Oklahoma but reared in Texline.

Criswell managed to cover the entire Bible over a 17 year period as pastor of the First Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas.

Criswell of the First Baptist Church of Dallas while in this position.

In person, he went by Charles Criswell King, and was sometimes credited as Jeron King Criswell.

Criswell was flamboyant with spit curled hair, a stentorian style of speaking, and a sequined tuxedo.

Criswell said he had once worked as a radio announcer and news broadcaster.

To fill the time, he began his Criswell Predicts part of the show.

They made him a minor, off-beat celebrity in Los Angeles and around Hollywood, and his friendship with old show-business types like Mae West and rising fringe celebrities like Korla Pandit made Criswell an entertaining presence at parties.

Criswell found cinematic infamy in the movies of Ed Wood.

Criswell reprises his role from the earlier film.

Its cast also featured Georgia Brown as Mrs Peachum, Maureen McGovern as Polly, Kim Criswell as Lucy, KT Sullivan as Suky Tawdry and Ethyl Eichelberger as the Street Singer.

By the spring of 1923, original dramatic pieces written specially for radio were airing on stations in Cincinnati ( When Love Wakens by WLW's Fred Smith ), Philadelphia ( The Secret Wave by Clyde A. Criswell ) and Los Angeles ( At Home over KHJ ).

" ( Her performance was repeated on 1991 studio cast recording based on the concert staging, appearing alongside Howard McGillin, Susan Powell, Kim Criswell, and Karen Ziemba.

* W. A. Criswell

Joe Criswell owned and ran the local dry cleaners, which was a short way out of the main town on BB Highway.

* W. A. Criswell

Interestingly, the London Confession of 1689 was later used by Calvinistic Baptists in America ( called the Philadelphia Baptist Confession ), whereas the Standard Confession of 1660 was used by the American heirs of the English General Baptists, who soon came to be known as Free Will Baptists.

* 1945 – Ten days after World War II ends with Japan announcing its surrender, armed supporters of the Communist Party of China kill Baptist missionary John Birch, regarded by some of the American right as the first victim of the Cold War.

* American Baptist Convention, name of American Baptist Churches USA ( ABCUSA ) from 1950 to 1972, a USA-based Christian denomination

* Spencer Houghton Cone ( born 1785 ), US Baptist minister and president of the American and Foreign Bible Society

Others join " conventions ", such as the Southern Baptist Convention, the National Baptist Convention or the American Baptist Churches USA ( formerly the Northern Baptist Convention ).

Denominations that oppose homosexuality include the Roman Catholic Church the Eastern Orthodox churches and some mainline Protestant denominations, such as the Methodist churches, Reformed Church in America the American Baptist Church, as well as Conservative Evangelical organizations and churches, such as the Evangelical Alliance, the Presbyterian Church in America and the Southern Baptist Convention.

* 1981 – Creighton Lovelace, American Baptist minister

However, he took a more conspicuous and personal part in the preparation ( with Baptist scholar Horatio B. Hackett ) of the enlarged American edition of Dr. ( afterwards Sir ) William Smith's Dictionary of the Bible ( 1867-1870 ), to which he contributed more than 400 articles, as well as greatly improving the bibliographical completeness of the work.

The Second Great Awakening ( which actually began in 1790 ) was primarily an American revivalist movement and resulted in substantial growth of the Methodist and Baptist churches.

Jerry Lamon Falwell, Sr. ( August 11, 1933 – May 15, 2007 ) was an American evangelical fundamentalist Southern Baptist pastor, televangelist, and a conservative political commentator.

In October 1999 Falwell hosted a meeting of 200 evangelicals with 200 homosexuals at Thomas Road Baptist Church for an " Anti-Violence Forum ", during which he acknowledged that some American evangelicals ' comments about homosexuality entered the realm of hate speech that could incite violence.

* 1855 – Francis Bellamy, American author, editor, and Baptist minister ( d. 1931 )

* 2002 – American civil rights movement: a jury in Birmingham, Alabama, convicts former Ku Klux Klan member Bobby Frank Cherry of the 1963 murders of four girls in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church.

* 1921 – Peter Ruckman, American Baptist minister

* St. Paul Baptist Church-Founded in 1867 by former slave Elijah Barnes, registered at the state and federal level as the second oldest African American Baptist Church in the state.

* William Miller, Baptist preacher who is credited with beginning the mid-19th century North American religious movement now known as Adventism

* 1919 – Rex Humbard, American preacher and television host ( d. 2007 )

* 1766 – Collin McKinney, American surveyor, merchant, politician, and preacher, helped draft the Texas Declaration of Independence ( d. 1861 )

Early 20th century American preacher Billy Sunday epitomizes the Evangelical focus on " going to heaven " in his sermon “ Heaven: A Wonderful Place ; Where There is No More Death ; Blessed Hope of the Christian .” In the message Sunday characteristically explained the feelings of his audience by saying “ Everybody wants to go to Heaven.

* 1925 – Edgar Ray Killen, American convict, former preacher and K. K. K.

* 1720 – John Woolman, American Quaker preacher and abolitionist ( d. 1772 )

His father was a great preacher of the Calvinist faith and supporter of the American Federalist party.

* 1841 – Charles J. Guiteau, American preacher, writer, and lawyer, assassin of James A. Garfield ( d. 1882 )

* December 24 – Norman Vincent Peale, American preacher and writer ( b. 1898 )

** William Miller, American preacher ( d. 1849 )

* May 10 – Theodore Parker, American preacher, Transcendentalist, and abolitionist ( d. 1810

* November 29 – Jemima Wilkinson, American preacher ( d. 1819 )

* October 5 – Jonathan Edwards, American preacher ( d. 1758 )

* October 19 – John Woolman, American Quaker preacher and abolitionist ( d. 1772 )

* August 24 – Theodore Parker, American preacher, Transcendentalist, and abolitionist ( d. 1860 )

* March 21 – The world does not end, contrary to the first prediction by American preacher William Miller.

* July 1 – Jemima Wilkinson, American preacher ( b. 1754 )

* October 22 – William Miller, American Baptist preacher ( b. 1782 )

** Lorenzo Dow, American Methodist preacher ( d. 1834 )

* October 7 – John Woolman, American Quaker preacher and abolitionist ( b. 1720 )

* Jonathan Edwards ( theologian ) ( 1703 – 1758 ), American preacher and theologian and president of Princeton University

He became perhaps the best-known preacher in Britain and America in the 18th century, and because he traveled through all of the American colonies and drew great crowds and media coverage, he was one of the most widely recognized public figures in colonial America.

Joseph Tracy, the minister, historian, and preacher who gave this religious phenomenon its name in his influential 1842 book The Great Awakening, saw the First Great Awakening as a precursor to the American Revolution.

Leonard Bacon ( February 19, 1802 – December 24, 1881 ) was an American Congregational preacher and writer.