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Stuff You Missed in History Class

The Vanishing of Sister Aimee

Stuff You Missed in History Class

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture, History

4.224.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2014

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Aimee Semple McPherson was an extraordinary figure in the early 20th-century religious landscape. As an evangelist, she rose to incredible popularity in the 1920s ... and then vanished. Read the show notes here.

Transcript

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0:30.7

Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class from HowStuffWorks.com.

0:41.7

Hello and welcome to the podcaf from PolyFry, and I'm Tracy V. Wilson.

0:46.7

And we're going to talk about an evangelist today.

0:49.7

An evangelist who broke all kinds of barriers and rose to incredible popularities in the 1920s,

0:54.7

and then vanished, and there are still mysteries surrounding that disappearance,

0:58.7

but they might not be the mysteries you would expect.

1:01.7

And just in the interest of expectations management,

1:04.7

we're not really going to dig particularly deep into this evangelist religion and doctrines.

1:09.7

We'll talk about it as it relates to the events of her life,

1:12.7

and sort of how she became famous and then had this sort of huge public turning point.

1:18.7

But in the interest of time and sticking to history rather than theology,

1:21.7

we're not going to break down her views and relation to other Christian views.

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