Claire Hoffman's superb biography traces the life of Aimee Semple McPherson, a star preacher whose legacy lives on in L.A.

Los Angeles has always been a city that prefers reinvention to tradition, making it the ideal incubator for new religious movements. From the beginning, its distance from the centers of ...

SISTER, SINNER: The Miraculous Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Aimee Semple McPherson, by Claire Hoffman Laced with romance, tragedy, courtroom drama and an alleged kidnapping, the story of ...

Aimee Semple McPherson was the most famous evangelist in the U.S. during the 1920s. She harnessed the new medium of radio to spread her gospel. In Echo Park, she built a megachurch called Angelus ...

In the early 20th century, genuine celebrity was rare, which is what makes Claire Hoffman’s telling of the story of Aimee Semple McPherson so compelling. In “Sister, Sinner,” Ms. Hoffman ...

It’s perhaps no wonder that Aimee Semple McPherson, founder of one of America’s first megachurches, has come back into style. Avid television watchers will recognize her in two recent shows ...

In May 1926, the world-famous evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson vanished; she was last seen ducking into the ocean near Santa Monica for a swim. Weeks later, she turned up in Mexico with a sordid ...

Aimee Semple McPherson. This glossy, well-researched but overly reverential bio-show doesn’t offer much of an answer beyond “maybe some of both.” It’s now at the 5th Avenue Theatre in a ...

SCANDALOUS is based on the life of Aimee Semple McPherson (1890-1944), the world's first media superstar evangelist -- a woman whose passion for saving souls equaled her passion for making ...

There are two kinds of Angelenos: Those who’ve heard of Aimee Semple McPherson and those who should. She was a showperson, a radio star, a publisher and writer, a beloved figure and a celebrity ...