Powerful Preachers

The people who have shined the brightest light through the darkest clouds.


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Conrad Grebel

(c. 1498–1526) Reformation era champion of adult baptism and separation of church and state.

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John Wesley

(1703–1791) English cleric and evangelist. One of the founders of the Methodist Church. A leader of the First Great Awakening of the 1730s and 1740s.

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Charles Spurgeon

(1834–1892) Acclaimed British Reformed Baptist Preacher who built the Stockwell Orphanage and founded Spurgeon's College

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Washington Gladden

(1836-1918) American Congregational pastor who supported unionization of the workforce and opposed racial segregation.

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Aimee Semple McPherson

(1890 –1944) Canadian American Pentecostal evangelist who founded the Foursquare Church and did significant charitable work.

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Adam Clayton Powell Jr

(1908–1972) American Baptist pastor and politician who expanded the minimum wage, helped make lynching a federal crime, and helped abolish the poll tax for blacks.

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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

(1929-1968) Baptist Pastor and civil rights activist who led peaceful marches and won the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II

Pastor of Greenleaf Christian Church. Founding Director of the Center for Public Theology and Public Policy at Yale Divinity School.

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Rev. Dr. Elizabeth Theoharis

Presbyterian Minister and author. Co-chair of the Poor People's Campaign. Director of the Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice. 


We must have more hospitals…Bones must be set, and the sick must be cared for; the poor must not be left to die…So let us all try to give what we can. It is your duty to give.

Rev. Charles Spurgeon in Wikipedia

True Christianity is not only to be good but to do good.

Aimee Semple McPherson in Wikipedia

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

We need a Moral Movement across the nation. An indigenously homegrown, state-based, state government-focused, deeply moral, deeply constitutional, anti-racist, anti-poverty, pro-justice, pro-labor, transformative, Fusion Movement. A Movement that is about the moral fabric of our society guided by a deeply moral and constitutional vision of what is possible.

Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II in Forward Together: A Moral Message for the Nation