Faith Healing
Aimee Semple McPherson
(1890-1944)
By 1923, McPherson’s popularity and dramatic flair enabled her to build the 5,300 seat Angelus Temple, home base for her religious movement. Called “Foursquare Gospel,” it served as a complete gospel for body, soul spirit and eternity. In 1924, radio station, KFSG, housed within the Temple, would send McPherson’s messages to those unable to hear them in person. McPherson’s public life was not without scandal.
In May 1926, she mysteriously disappeared while swimming in the ocean. Newspapers featured rumored sightings but no body was recovered. McPherson would reappear in late June 1926 claiming she had been kidnapped. Skeptics would claim that she faked her kidnapping to spend 32 days of uninterrupted solitude with her radio station engineer who had not been seen during the entire time of McPherson’s absence. McPherson's popularity waned after the scandal.
Aimee Semple McPherson
(1890-1944)
By 1923, McPherson’s popularity and dramatic flair enabled her to build the 5,300 seat Angelus Temple, home base for her religious movement. Called “Foursquare Gospel,” it served as a complete gospel for body, soul spirit and eternity. In 1924, radio station, KFSG, housed within the Temple, would send McPherson’s messages to those unable to hear them in person. McPherson’s public life was not without scandal.
In May 1926, she mysteriously disappeared while swimming in the ocean. Newspapers featured rumored sightings but no body was recovered. McPherson would reappear in late June 1926 claiming she had been kidnapped. Skeptics would claim that she faked her kidnapping to spend 32 days of uninterrupted solitude with her radio station engineer who had not been seen during the entire time of McPherson’s absence. McPherson's popularity waned after the scandal.
