Aimee Semple McPherson and the Resurrection of Christian America

Media-savvy and inclined to flamboyance, Pentecostal McPherson was one of the most popular ministers in her day. Sutton examines the precedents set by her megachurch evangelistic methods and her campaign to join "old-time religion" with patriotism---for later church-state relations. 294 pages, hardcover. Harvard University.

If you enjoy 20th Century American history and want to know more about the patchwork quilt of religious culture that we've inherited in this country, then you'll enjoy Matthew Avery Sutton's new biography of pioneering Pentecostal evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson. His book served as the basis for the recent PBS documentary about her life.

It's an amazing story of a young woman so passionately inspired to preach that she set off for Asia with her young husband, where he promptly became ill and died. That would have stopped most young women in that era, when Americans by and large scoffed at the idea of a woman in a pulpit -- but not "Sister Aimee."

If you recall her at all, before reading this book, you're likely to remember the scandal in the 1920s, when she mysteriously disappeared for a while. But, as Sutton tells her story, that's just one of the fascinating chapters in a complex life of a boundary-breaking woman of faith.

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