Her First Funeral Changed Her Life

Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2018

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Aimee can barely contain her excitement because Dr. Robert Godfrey is here to talk about the “other Aimee”! Aimee Semple McPherson or “Sister”, as she’s known, has interested Bob for some years. We gather around him to hear about this woman preacher, faith healer, and founder of the Foursquare church, from the early 1900s.What is so fascinating about Sister’s life, and what kind of mark did she leave in American Christianity? What practices have Pentecostals and even our churchs learned and adapted from her?There’s much to be said about the nuanced stories around her personal life. And Dr. Godfrey is more forgiving than Todd when talking about her mysterious disappearance in 1926.Gather around for this interesting conversation.By Dr. Godfrey’s recommendation, we’re giving away Sister Aimee: The life of Aimee Semple McPherson. Follow the link and sign up to win a copy!Show notesWho was Sister Aimee?We have the winners of Fearfully and Wonderfully Made: Ethics and the Beginning of Human Life, from our episode When Your Opinion Becomes Our Business.Tom K. - Wellsville, NYTennille B. - Medicine Hat, AlbertaCasey H. - Placerville, CAMrs. Holmes - Soldotna, AKLynda O. - Memphis, TN

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0:00.0	Welcome to Mortification of Spin, a casual conversation about things that count.
0:21.7	With Carl Truman, Todd Pruitt, and Amy Bird, Mortification of Spin is a weekly podcast from the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.
0:30.6	Let's join this week's conversation. Welcome to Mortification of Spin.
0:46.7	This is Amy Bird.
0:47.9	I'm here with my co-host Carl Truman and Todd Pruitt.
0:51.7	And I am so excited about our guests today. I have been bugging my co-hosts to get
0:58.4	this person on. So great anticipation and excitement. I would like to introduce Dr. Robert
1:05.3	Godfrey. He is President Emeritus of Westminster Seminary, California, and all the things that we could talk about
1:13.9	with him today.
1:14.8	I'm really excited to be able to discuss Amy Simple McPherson, everybody's sister.
1:22.3	Hey, Bob, how you doing?
1:23.8	I'm doing great.
1:24.7	And if you're not excited when you're talking about sister, you haven't thought deeply enough about.
1:31.2	She was all about excitement.
1:33.3	And she spells our name right, which is, you know, makes me very happy.
1:37.1	Yeah, yeah.
1:38.0	Now, Amy, you know, you really built this up, Amy.
1:40.5	You acted in your introduction, you almost acted as if Carl and I needed to have our arms twisted to get Robert Godfrey.
1:46.8	Well, it took me forever to get this. You're acting like somehow we were less enthusiastic. We like Godfrey, don't we?
1:53.6	We do. We just know that he's very important and the chances of him coming on a show like this.
1:57.5	That was the whole thing. But he likes talking about... Is that a man of his stature is not going to come on something that will risk his career
2:04.1	and his reputation.
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