Wednesday, January 02, 2008

Remembering Spiritual Leaders

There's a neat article on beliefnet about some of the spiritual leaders who died in 2007.

Here's a quick run-down:

Benazir Bhutto - Islamic democratic leader in Pakistan
Jerry Falwell - conservative founder of Moral Majority
Madeleine L'Engle - prolific writer
Ruth Bell Graham - wife of Billy Graham and independent thinker
Teddy Kollek - modernized Jerusalem; advocated peace w/ Palestine
Alice Coltrane - jazz musician turned Hindu guru
Tammy Faye Messner - wife of televangelist Jim Bakker & cosmetics aficionado
Ilyas ba-Yunas - muslim advocate in America
Ingmar Bergman - filmmaker & God questioner
Gilbert Patterson - pentecostal bishop
Jean-Marie Lustiger - french catholic archibishop
D. James Kennedy - conservative televangelist and co-founder of Moral Majority
Norman Mailer - writer & peace activist
Sherwin Wine - founder of Jewish Humanism
Sri Chinmoy - Hindu guru to celebrities and fitness freak
Rex Humbard - one of the first pentecostal televangelists
Maha Ghosananda - buddhist monk and peace activist
Avraham Shapira - Zionist rabbi opposed to the land for peace deals
Robert Drinan - liberal jesuit priest turned congressman
Anita Roddick - environmentalist
Bruce Metzger - Greek scholar & bible translator; all modern bibles are based on his work
Yolanda King - daughter of MLK, Jr., activist

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