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Spire Christian Comics
''Spire Christian Comics'' was a line of comic books published by Fleming H. Revell starting in 1972. In the 1980s, Barbour & Company, founded by Hugh Revell Barbour, acquired the rights to republish many of the titles in the Spire Christian Comics line under the New Barbour Christian Comics imprint, keeping the comics in print until 1988. History Christian book publisher Fleming H. Revell had approached Al Hartley, about doing comic book adaptions of Christian-themed books that they were publishing. Hartley was working for Archie Comics at the time. In 1972, they launched Spire with two titles, ''God's Smuggler'' and ''The Cross and the Switchblade''. Hartley's connection with Archie comics publisher John Goldwater helped Spire license the ''Archie'' characters in a Christian-themed series, and in 1973 they launched the first of 19 ''Archie'' titles, ''Archie's One Way''. Other comics were based on true stories, Christian novels, or Christian movies. Examples of this type ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph (Hebrew Bible)
Joseph (; he, יוֹסֵף, , He shall add; Standard: ''Yōsef'', Tiberian: ''Yōsēp̄''; alternatively: יְהוֹסֵף, lit. 'Yahweh shall add'; Standard: ''Yəhōsef'', Tiberian: ''Yŏhōsēp̄''; ar, يوسف, Yūsuf; grc, Ἰωσήφ, Iōsēph) is an important figure in the Bible's Book of Genesis. He was the first of the two sons of Jacob and Rachel (Jacob's twelfth child and eleventh son). He is the founder of the Israelite Tribe of Joseph. His story functions as an explanation for Israel's residence in Egypt. He is the favourite son of the patriarch Jacob, and his jealous brothers sell him into slavery in Egypt, where he eventually ends up incarcerated. After correctly interpreting the dreams of Pharaoh, however, he rises to second-in-command in Egypt and saves Egypt during a famine. Jacob's family travel to Egypt to escape the famine, and it is through him that they are given leave to settle in the Land of Goshen (the eastern part of the Nile Delta). The comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Elliot
Philip James Elliot (October 8, 1927 – January 8, 1956) was an American Christian missionary and one of five people killed during Operation Auca, an attempt to evangelize the Huaorani people of Ecuador. Early life Elliot was born in Portland, Oregon, to Fred and Clara Elliot. Fred was of Scottish heritage; his grandparents were the first of his family to settle in North America. Clara's parents moved near the turn of the 20th century from Switzerland to eastern Washington, where they operated a large ranch. They met in Portland, where Clara was studying to be a chiropractor and Fred, having devoted himself to Christian ministry, was working as a traveling preacher with the Plymouth Brethren movement. Robert, their first child, was born in 1921 while they were living in Seattle, and he was followed by Herbert, Jim, and Jane, all three of whom were born after the family moved to Portland. Elliot's parents had firm Christian beliefs, and they raised their children accordingly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nate Saint
Nathanael Saint (30 August 19238 January 1956) was an evangelical Christian missionary pilot who, along with four others, was killed in Ecuador while attempting to evangelize the Huaorani people through efforts known as Operation Auca. Early life Saint was born in 1923. When he was seven he took his first plane ride with his brother Sam, who would eventually become a commercial pilot for American Airlines. While in the airplane he discovered a love of flying. His family was somewhat unusual. His brothers made a sleeping patio on the roof of their home, and his father built a roller coaster in the backyard. When he joined the army he was stationed in Las Vegas, NV, but was transferred to several other locations over the years. A leg injury caused him some problems while he was in the army. About a year before he was discharged, he nearly died while climbing a mountain in Yosemite National Park. Becoming a missionary When Saint was asked by a friend to fix a plane somewhere i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Through Gates Of Splendor
''Through Gates of Splendor'' is a 1957 best selling book written by Elisabeth Elliot. The book tells the story of Operation Auca, an attempt by five American missionaries – Jim Elliot (the author's husband), Pete Flemming, Ed McCully, Nate Saint, and Roger Youderian – to reach the Huaorani tribe of eastern Ecuador Ecuador ( ; ; Quechuan languages, Quechua: ''Ikwayur''; Shuar language, Shuar: ''Ecuador'' or ''Ekuatur''), officially the Republic of Ecuador ( es, República del Ecuador, which literally translates as "Republic of the Equator"; Quechuan .... All five of the men were killed by the tribe. The book is Elliot's first book, and arguably her most well-known work. The title of the book is derived from the fourth stanza of the hymn " We Rest on Thee". This hymn was famously sung by the missionaries before the men left for Waodaoni territory in September 1955. The lines read: We rest on Thee, our Shield, and our Defender. Thine is the battle, Thine shall be t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrae Crouch
Andrae, Andræ (Danish) or Andrä is a surname and given name, which is a variant of Andreae, itself a patronymic (via the Latin genitive case) from the personal name Andreas. Notable persons with this name include: Surname * Ahmed-Tobias Andrä (1996), Austrian footballer * Alexander Andrae (1888–1979), German military officer * Björn Andrae (1981), German volleyball player * Carl Christoffer Georg Andræ (1812–1893), Danish politician and mathematician * Elisabeth Andrae (1876–1945), German Post-Impressionist landscape painter and watercolorist * Emil Andrae (2002), Swedish ice hockey defenceman * Hansine Andræ (1817–1898), Danish feminist * Tor Andræ (1885–1947), Swedish clergyman, professor and scholar of comparative religion * Walter Andrae (1875–1956), German archaeologist and architect Given name * Andrae Campbell (1989), Jamaican footballer * Andraé Crouch Andraé Edward Crouch (July 1, 1942 – January 8, 2015) was an American gospel si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Howard Rutledge
Howard is an English-language given name originating from Old French Huard (or Houard) from a Germanic source similar to Old High German ''*Hugihard'' "heart-brave", or ''*Hoh-ward'', literally "high defender; chief guardian". It is also probably in some cases a confusion with the Old Norse cognate ''Haward'' (''Hávarðr''), which means "high guard" and as a surname also with the unrelated Hayward. In some rare cases it is from the Old English ''eowu hierde'' "ewe herd". In Anglo-Norman the French digram ''-ou-'' was often rendered as ''-ow-'' such as ''tour'' → ''tower'', ''flour'' (western variant form of ''fleur'') → ''flower'', etc. (with svarabakhti). A diminutive is "Howie" and its shortened form is "Ward" (most common in the 19th century). Between 1900 and 1960, Howard ranked in the U.S. Top 200; between 1960 and 1990, it ranked in the U.S. Top 400; between 1990 and 2004, it ranked in the U.S. Top 600. People with the given name Howard or its variants include: Given ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johnny Cash
John R. Cash (born J. R. Cash; February 26, 1932 – September 12, 2003) was an American Country music, country singer-songwriter. Much of Cash's music contained themes of sorrow, moral tribulation, and redemption, especially in the later stages of his career. He was known for his deep, calm bass-baritone voice, the distinctive sound of his The Tennessee Three, Tennessee Three backing band characterized by train-like chugging guitar rhythms, a rebelliousness coupled with an increasingly somber and humble demeanor, free prison concerts, and a trademark all-black stage wardrobe which earned him the Honorific nicknames in popular music, nickname "The Man in Black". Born to poor cotton farmers in Kingsland, Arkansas, Cash rose to fame during the mid-1950s in the burgeoning rockabilly scene in Memphis, Tennessee, after four years in the United States Air Force, Air Force. He traditionally began his concerts by simply introducing himself, "Hello, I'm Johnny Cash", followed by "Fol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Anne Hirschmann
Maria Anne Hirschmann is a Czechoslovak-American author and public speaker on Christian subjects. Hirschmann was caught in the events of World War II when the Nazis invaded Czechoslovakia and the local Sudeten German population came under the influence of Nazism. When the Soviets came, she managed to escape to American-occupied Germany, or West Germany. In 1955 she emigrated to America as a teacher and wrote a book about her life, originally published as ''I Changed Gods'', and more popularly published later as ''Hansi, The Girl Who Loved the Swastika'' in 1973. According to her Amazon bio, the book sold more than 400,000 copies. Later editions are titled ''Hansi: The Girl who Left the Swastika''. It was also published as a comic book by Spire Christian Comics. Hirschmann founded Hansi Ministries in 1974. In 2009, Hirschmann's scheduled appearance at a US Air Force Academy symposium was canceled after Colorado Springs Gazette religion columnist Mark Barna quoted her as saying " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hansi, The Girl Who Loved The Swastika
''Hansi: The Girl who Loved the Swastika'' is an autobiographical book by Czech-born American author Maria Anne Hirschmann. Originally published as ''I Changed Gods in 1968'', it was more popularly released in 1973 as ''Hansi: The Girl Who Loved the Swastika'', which according to her Amazon biography, sold more than 400,000 copies and was translated into several languages including Polish and Russian. Later editions are titled ''Hansi: The Girl who Left the Swastika''. Her autobiography was also published as a comic book by Spire Christian Comics. The book chronicles Hirschmann's early childhood as an orphan and her subsequent indoctrination by the Hitler Youth after the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia. At the end of World War II she fled from the Soviet-occupied territories to those controlled by the American army. Hirschmann describes her disillusionment with the Nazi ideology, which she calls brainwashing. She comes to repudiate Nazism and develops a great appreciation for t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brother Andrew
Andrew "Anne" van der Bijl (; 11 May 1928 – 27 September 2022), known in English-speaking countries as Brother Andrew, was a Dutch Christian missionary and founder of the Christian organization Open Doors. He was known for smuggling Bibles and other Christian literature into communist countries during the Cold War and, because of his activities, he was nicknamed "God's Smuggler". Biography Van der Bijl was born in Alkmaar, the Netherlands, on 11 May 1928, the fourth of six children of a poor blacksmith and an invalid mother. In the 1940s he enlisted in the colonial army of the Dutch East Indies during the Indonesian National Revolution. After being involved in a massacre of Indonesian villagers while he was serving as a soldier, he endured a period of severe emotional stress, and later was wounded in the ankle during the fighting. During his rehabilitation, he began reading a Bible given to him by his mother. When he returned to the Netherlands he started attending church a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Wilkerson
David Ray Wilkerson (May 19, 1931 – April 27, 2011) was an American Christian evangelist, best known for his book ''The Cross and the Switchblade''. He was the founder of the addiction recovery program Teen Challenge, and founding pastor of the non-denominational Times Square Church in New York City. Wilkerson's widely distributed sermons, such as "A Call to Anguish", are known for being direct and frank against apostasy and serious about making the commitment to obey Jesus' teachings. He emphasized such Christian beliefs as God's holiness and righteousness, God's love toward humans and especially Christian views of Jesus. Wilkerson tried to avoid categorizing Christians into distinct groups according to the denomination to which they belong. Early years David Wilkerson was born in 1931 in Indiana. He was the second son of a family of Pentecostal Christian preachers, and he was raised in Barnesboro, Pennsylvania, in a house "full of Bibles". His paternal grandfather and hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
