100 years ago, live radio sermons began at Pittsburgh church

almost 5 years in Washington Times

PITTSBURGH (AP) - Before Jerry Falwell, Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, Joel Osteen, Archbishop Fulton Sheen and famous radio evangelists such as Father Charles Coughlin and Aimee Semple McPherson, there was Edwin Van Etten. It was the Rev. Edwin Van Etten, far from a household name, who helped popularize the ...

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