That Guy That Invented Post-It® Notes Art Fry, inventor of Post-it® NotesCame up with the idea while trying to find a way to mark his Hymnal in church.  He says they were NOT an accident, as urban legend says, but he deliberatley set out to create them. You might be thinking "Big deal!", but what have you invented lately????      

John Polkinghorne (b. 1930)  Anglican priest who wrote Science and the Trinity (2004) ISBN 0-300-10445-6. Winner of the 2002 Templeton Prize.

Ghillean Prance-(b.1937)  A noted botanist involved in the Eden Project Eric Priest (born 1943)  An authority on Solar Magnetohydrodynamics who won the George Ellery Hale Prize among others. He has spoken on Christianity and Science at the University of St Andrews and is a member of the Faraday Institute.

Robert T. Bakker (b. 1945)  Paleontologist who was a figure in the "dinosaur Renaissance" and known for the theory some dinosaurs were Warm-blooded. He is also a Pentecostal preacher who advocates theistic evolution and has written on religion.

John T. Houghton -  co-chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and won a gold medal from the Royal Astronomical Society & former Vice President of Christians in Science. Christopher Isham - Theoretical physicist who developed HPO formalism. He teaches at Imperial College London. In addition to being a physicist, he is a philosopher and theologian.

Stanley Jaki (b.1924)  Benedictine who won a Templeton Prize and advocates the idea modern science could only have arisen in a Christian society.

Asa Gray (1810-1888)  His Gray's Manual remains a pivotal work in botany. His Darwiniana has sections titled "Natural selection not inconsistent with Natural theology", "Evolution and theology", and "Evolutionary teleology." The preface indicates his adherence to the Nicene Creed in concerning these religious issues.

  George Washington Carver (1864-1943) The original Mr. Peanut! Invented hundreds of uses for the peanut, and thus helped impoverished cotton farmers out of poverty after the civil war. Carver was a religious Christian man who said he could not have created his many inventions had it not been inspiration from God (the Judeo-Christian God).
James Clerk Maxwell; Electromagnetic Field (Presbyterian), Erwin Schrodinger;wave mechanics theory (Catholic), Andreas Vesalius new anatomy  (Catholic), Tycho Brahe Astronomer,(Lutheran),  Max Born quantum mechanics (Jewish Lutheran), Enrico Fermi;atomic physics(Catholic) Marcello Malpighi;microscopic anatomy (Catholic), Christiaan Huygens;the Wave Theory of Light (Calvinist), Carl Gauss (Karl Friedrich Gauss)  Mathematical Genius (Lutheran),  Ken Olson - fossil hunter for Museum of the Rockies, discoverer of T-Rex skull #008 - retired Lutheran Pastor Dr. Paul Mislevy - Agricultural scientist for the Institute of Food and Agricultural Science, author of many papers and articles on agriculture, PhD in Agronomy from the University of Pennsylvania (Roman Catholic) Anton van Leeuwenhoek ,invented the microscope (Dutch Reformed),  Theodosius Dobzhansky the Modern Synthesis (Russian Orthodox),  John Dalton;the Theory of the Atom (Quaker), Alexander Fleming Penicillin (Catholic) Josef Pieper, German Thomist philosopher Trofim Lysenko , Genetics (Russian Orthodox)     

  SO WILL YOU HATERS OF CHRISTIANITY PLEASE STOP SAYING WE ARE ALL IGNORANT HATE SCIENCE????  

This alternative rock band that hails from the U.K. are all Christians. They even dedicated their first album to God (and says so in the liner notes). Their song titled Breathe Your Name is about God.  Yes, Christians can be "kewl".

 Billy Preston (1946-2006) Known as "The Brown Beatle". Grammy winning musician, song writer, performer, & session man who's career spanned five decades. He performed with everyone from Elton John to the Red Hot Chilli Pepers. By age ten he was playing keyboards with gospel diva Mahalia Jackson, and two years later, in 1958, he was featured in Hollywood's film bio of W.C. Handy. He was the only musician to have ever worked with both the Beatles and The Rolling Stones. He worked with the Beatles on the Let It Be album and movie.  Rembrandt Harmensz Van Rijn- Known as "the painter of the soul " Wolgang Amadeus Motzart- legendary Austrian composer.

TINY TIM The last of the Vaudevillians. He made a big splash in the 1960's with his mondo eukalele act. Best known for his rendititon of Tiptoe Through The Tulips. His marriage to Miss Vicky on The Tonight Show was the highest rated show in history for decades. Even though a certain Satanist (who's name bears no mention here) thought his style of music was "Satanic", in reality Tiny Tim was a Christian who read his Bible everyday, and was actually quite conservative in many ways! He publicly professed his Christian faith many times, including on T.V. interviews.

Francis Scott Key (1779-1843) - composer and writer ;"Star Spangled Banner"

Kerry Livgren - formerly with the band "Kansas", contemporary Christian musician,

Christopher Parkening - classical guitarist,

 John Tesh - popular jazz musician and TV personality.

Rev. Thomas Andrew Dorsey (1899-1993)"the father of gospel music". Earlier in his life he was a leading blues pianist known as Georgia Tom.  

Aretha Franklin "The Queen of Soul", The daughter of Rev. C. L. Franklin, a Detroit gospel singer and clergyman, Aretha began performing on the Midwest gospel music circuit as a youngster and made her first recording when she was 14 years old.By the end of the 1960s Franklin was at her peak as an artist -- with hits including Otis Redding's "Respect", as well as "Chain of Fools" and "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" -- and had become an African-American icon during the era's turbulent battles over civil rights for minorities and women. In 1987 she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Bob Dylan 60's music icon;   

Robert Hunter (a.k.a George Montalba, Georges Montalba) Hunter/Montalba was an organ virtuoso and Glendale, CA resident who recorded several albums of pipe organ music during 1957-1958. He later went on to work with George Burns and Carol Channing on broadway, in addition to working with Leopold Stokowski, Shirely Temple, Eleanor Roosevelt, Nelson Eddy, Judy Garland, Two Popes, and John & Jacquelyn Kennedy to name a few! His career spanned 60 years. A pretentious wife beating Satanist with a criminal record, who's name bears no mentioning here, later claimed to be Montalba. How pathetic! Hit Thing records has re-released Montalba's recording on CD with liner notes that will hopefull clear up the slander!

whisper, "I'm going to a beautiful city… I can hear the angels singing." He had his ups and downs, and friend Kris Kristofferson once remarked he was "a walking contradiction". In a behind the scenes look at "The Johnny Cash Show", Cash claims to have "tried every drug there was to try". Cash quit using drugs in 1968. Recommitting to his Christian faith, he answered an "altar call" in Evangel Temple, a small church in the Nashville area, Cash chose this church over many larger celebrity churches in the Nashville area because he said that there he was treated like just another parishioner and not a celebrity. Perhaps "Amazing Grace," written by John Newton after the hard-drinking, profane slave trader found God, best describes the journey of Johnny Cash from the pit of despair to the pinnacle of glory. The record shows that he has more lives than ten cats. He wrecked every car he had for seven years, totaled two jeeps and a camper, turned over two tractors and a bulldozer, sank two boats in separate accidents on a lake, jumped from a truck just before it went over a 600-foot cliff in California, brawled and incurred permanent scars, and drove himself into a wild frenzy many times with drugs.Yet when the raging voices quieted, there was always the "still, small voice" whispering, I am your God. 1 love you. I am waiting."The hand of God," Johnny Cash once said, "was never off me." In all of his wanderings, Johnny could never escape the "hound of heaven," which pursued him from his childhood. He has inspired Musicians from  Reba MacIntyer to Nine Inch Nails . In addition to Gospel songs, Cash also recorded a reading of the Bible and appeared at Billy Graham crudases. "There is no person in the world whom we [Ruth and Billy] have more affection for than Johnny Cash," said Billy Graham. Youth for Christ International named him "Man of the Year" in 1979 for helping young people. He attended a Pentecostal church outside Nashville, & received an honorary doctorate in humanities from Gardner-Webb College, a Southern Baptist school in North Carolina.  Johnny Cash, one of those "awful xtians".

      PEOPLE INVOLVED IN SCIENCE FICTION   Sir Alec Guinness (1914-2000) best known for his role as Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars. He was one of the few cast members who believed that the film would be a box office hit and negotiated a deal for two percent of the gross, which made him very wealthy in later life. Guiness used to consult Tarot cards in one point in his life prior to that, until one day he decided the cards, with their , the spades, cups, Heriophant, and such mocked the life of Jesus. He then burned the cards and later converted to Roman Catholicism (X-Rated, by Michael Munn, pg 93).   Ron Harper - Actor (Planet of the Apes T.V. series, "Uncle Jack" on Land of the Lost, The Glass Cage) John Heidenry "The Counterpoint of View"; Dearly Beloved,  andrew j. offutt; author of "For Value Received" and many others, Joan Bernott "The Test-Tube Creature, Afterward", David Kerr  "Epiphany for Aliens"; Firstprint    Katherine Kurtz The Adept series; Deryni series; The Legends of Camber of Culdi series (Including Camber of Culdi, which won the Balrog award in 1992.); Knights of the Blood, Mervyn Peake [Born in China in 1911, the son of a Congregational missionary doctor.] Gormenghast trilogy: Titus Groan; Gormenghast; Titus Alone.Also wrote poetry, and created works of art. Anne Rice – American writer Interview With A Vampire After a long separation from her Christian faith during which she described her self as "atheist", she returned to the Church in 1998 and has pledged to use her talents to glorify God.   Roger Delgado (Roman Catholic)British actor that played "The Master" on Dr. Who. His devilish looks got him frequently cast as a villain, and he appeared in many noted British action-adventure TV series of the 1960s, including The Avengers, The Champions, Danger Man, The Saint, The Power Game, Crossfire and Randall and Hopkirk . He also appeared alongside Bing Crosby and Bob Hope in The Road to Hong Kong. Born in Whitechapel in the East end of London, he was rasied Roman Catholic and attended the Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School, a Roman Catholic secondary school in Holland Park. In an interview, Dr. Who cast member John (Dr. Who #3) Pertwee once recollected the irony of Delgado being cast as arch-villan "The Master" because he was in reality a good, moral, and polite man.    Mike Nelson Riftrax, host and head writer of Mystery Science Theater 3000, Donna Farley,(Greek Orthodox) author Stories include: Astronomical Odds; Father Vadim's Angel; It Must Be Some Place; Light One Candle; The Passing of the Eclipse; Wizards; Orthodox-themed works include: "Cold Hands, Warm Heart" and the poem "The Geography of Prayer", Nick Mamatas [Greek Orthodox] Over 10 published short stories; his novel Northern Gothic (2002) nominated for the Stoker Award; collection: 3000 MPH (Prime Books, 2003); novel: Move Under Ground (Night Shade Books, 2004); Greek Orthodoxy plays a major role in his story "Time Of Day" (published in 2002 by Strange Horizons) Pierre Boulle, French author of  "Planet of the Apes" and also other works such as "The Bridge Over the River Kwai"
Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin  Orthodox Russian novelist, playwright, short story writer, and essayist, whose famous anti-utopia "My" (1924, "We") prefigured Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (1932), and inspired George Orwell's 1984 (1949).   Rand and Robyn Miller Creators of the Myst CD-ROM game and associated books. (Pictured here is Rand as "Artus".)                 Stephen R. Lawhead  [Raised in a Conservative Protestant church; attended Northern Baptist Theological Seminary. Considered one of the most successful writers among the relatively few mainstream SF/F writers who are Evangelicals] Avalon; The Celtic Crusades series; Byzantium; The Songs of Albion series; Pendragon Cycle series; Dream Thief; Empyrion series; Dragon King trilogy; Howard Had a Spaceship. Randall Garrett  [Ordained]; Brain Twister; The Gandalara Cycle I; The Gandalara Cycle II; Return to Eddarta; The River Wall; The Search for Ka Alexandra E. Honigsberg  [In 1996 Honigsberg was a priest candidate in the Old Catholic Church at Union Theological Seminary. ] Awakening: A Symphony, Borne on a River of Tears (written with David M. Honigsberg, her husband who is a Rabbi); Death's Doorstep, Jeff Duntemann  [Active member in Old Catholic movement] The Cunning Blood. Many of his s.f. stories have Catholic themes, incl. Guardian, which was on 1981 Hugo Awards ballot, as well as: Our Lady of the Endless Sky; Bathtub Mary; Drumlin Boiler. Other stories include: The Steel Sonnets; Inevitability Sphere; Cold Hands; Guardian; Ariel; Silicon Psalm; Marlowe; Borovsky's Hollow Woman; STORMY vs. the Tornadoes. Bram Stoker author of Dracula; despite rumors, he was never a member of the occult farce known as The Golden Dawn and was in fact a Christian. Ross Pavlac  Former Unitarian and agnostic who is now a Methodist,  Produced "Avenging Aardvark" fanzine. Major Sci-Fi convention organizer. Kij Johnson  Star Trek, the Next Generation #38: Dragon1s Honor; stories include "Canine Intervention", "Fox Magic", "Last Dance at Dante's", more. Bill Myers [Myers received a degree in applied management business administration from Dallas Baptist University and is a Baptist himself] "McGee and Me!" series; Forbidden Doors series; Bloodhounds series; Incredible Worlds of Wally McDoogle series; Fire of Heaven,  Jefferson Scott  Virtually Eliminated; Fatal Defect: A Genetic Thriller; Terminal Logic Sigmund Brouwer (Baptist) young adult fiction, such as: Sports Mystery series; CyberQuest; The Ghost Rider; Winds of Light, Wings of Dawn; The Weeping Chamber; Blood Ties; Double Helix; Magnus, Karel Capek;Celebrated Czech novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright. Famous for R.U.R., early s.f. story that coined the word "robot." Connie Willis  Lutheran; Congregationalist  Doomsday Book (1992; also Locus Award 1993) [Ranked 12th on the ISFDB Top 100 Novels list.], and many other books; Gene Wolfe - several books including Book of the New Sun Tetralogy [Ranked 87th in the Internet Top 100 Survey, Cooke, Oct. 1999.], Wolfe was ranked 5th on the ISFDB Top 100 Authors list. ; WRITERS AND POETS C.S. Lewis The Chronicles of Narina dude was a Christian! Not only that, he wrote some amazing books on theology too! He became an athiest at an early age but eventually regained his faith when a friend convinced him Christianity wasn't history, Christianity was the thing that writes history.Well that was enough to convince Lewis, and the rest is history. DOWNLOAD A FREE COPY OF MERE CHRISTIANTY HERE!    John Henry Newman – Master of English prose (Apologia Pro Vita Sua), and poetry,( Lead, Kindly Light and The Dream of Gerontius) He became a Catholic priest and later a Cardinal Charles Dickens A Christmas Carrol, A Tale of Two Cities, etc. Joseph Pearce – English literary scholar and critic Jonathan Swift  Gulliver's Travels, Charles M. Schultz creator of the Peanuts comic strip. Dame Edith Sitwell –English poet Dr. Seuss  Fantasy-laden children books, incl. Daisy - Head Mayzie The Cat in the Hat; How the Grinch Stole Christmas!; Horton Hears a Who!; If I Ran the Circus; Green Eggs and Ham; The Lorax; many more, Henri Ghéon - French poet and critic Ken McCullough  "Chuck Berry, Won't You Please Come Home"; "His Loneliness, The Winner"; "The Legend of Wick Higgins"; Three Worlds, Three Realms, Six Roads; many poems, A. Parra (y Fegueredo)  "Totenbuch"; other poems and short stories, Alexander Pope – famous English poet G.K. Chesterton; author of "The Man Who Knew Too Much", "How I Found the Superman"; "The Shop Of Ghosts", - "Enormous" essayist, poet, writer Alfred Noyes – English poet, best known for The Highwayman Flann O'Brien - Irish comic writer, Coventry Patmore - 19th century poet Vicomte de Chateaubriand – The founder of Romanticism in French literature, he returned to the Catholic faith of his boyhood in the 1790s and wrote a famous apology for Christianity, "Génie du christianisme" ("The Genius of Christianity"), which contributed to a post-Revolutionary revival of Catholicism in France. Charles Williams "All Hallows' Eve" Pellagrini and Cudahy; Descent into Hell; The Greater Trumps; Many Dimensions; The Place of the Lion; Shadows of Ecstasy; War in Heaven, Lloyd Alexander, The Black Cauldron (Newbery Medal Honor; Child's Study Association for America's Children's Books of the Year)and many other books. John Bunyan - Pilgrim who made progress in prison, Harriet Beecher Stowe - Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, which many credit to aiding in the end of slavery. Fyodor Dostoyevsky Russian novelist of spiritual depth George MacDonald - Fabled Victorian writer, John Milton author of "Paradise Lost"; John Patrick Shanley – screenwriter and playwright, Dame Muriel Spark – Scottish novelist, Elena Maria Vidal – Historical novelist, Evelyn Waugh – author and novelist D.B. Wyndham-Lewis – English comic writer and biographer Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly - French 19th century novelist and short story writer, who specialised in mysterious tales that examine hidden motivation and hinted evil bordering the supernatural influenced by his Catholic faith Paul Claudel-early 20th century poet and author Heinrich Böll, German novelist, Jože Snoj - Slovenian poet, was prohibited to publish his works during the Communist regime, St. John of the Cross – this great mystic, Carmelite priest and Doctor of the Church also wrote some of the most famous Christian poetry in any language.  Christopher Buckley – Political satirist who wrote Thank You for Smoking, William Peter Blatty -- screenwriter and novelist. Best known for the novel The Exorcist and Oscar winning screenplay adapting same J.R.Tolkien Remember the friend I mentioned who told C.S. Lewis Christianity was cool? Oh yeah, it was Tolkien. So stop trying to find all those "secret clues" in Lord of The Rings to make your spells work. It's not in there. Danielle Steele - best-selling author Dorothy Sayers - Mystery writer and apologist, Dante Alighieri - Worldly creator of divine verse. Pope Benedict XV praised him in an encyclical, writing that of all Catholic literary geniuses "highest stands the name of Dante". Geoffrey Chaucer - Medieval England's greatest storyteller, the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages and author of "The Canterbury Tales", he mocks corrupt clergy, but also presents an ideal priest who teaches sound Catholic doctrine in "The Parson's Tale"   John Donne - Poet of God's love, George Herbert - England's greatest religious poet, John Milton - Puritan author of Paradise Lost, Anne Bradstreet - considered to be "America's first poet", Isaac Watts - Father of English hymnody, Charles Wesley - Considered the greatest hymn writer of all time,  Fanny Crosby - Prolific and blind hymn writer T.S. Eliot - Modernist poet George Kelly – Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Jack Kerouac - Beat author of On the Road; experimented with Buddhism but later returned to Christianity  Dean Koontz - American popular novelist best known for moralistic thrillers Rosie Malek-Yonan - author of The Crimson Field Francis A. Marzen –journalist  Elisabeth Langgässer – (1899–1950) An influential German Catholic author who the Nazis deemed "too Jewish" Martin Mosebach, novelist, poet, playwright Pope Pius II – In his younger days he had been a Poet laureate and had written an erotic novel called Eurialus and Lucretia. Later he wrote histories and epistles. Rumer Godden - author of children's classics (The Doll's House, Miss Happiness and Miss Flower, An Episode of Sparrows, etc. ) William Shakespear No, he wasn't a Wiccan because he wrote "MacBeth"(admit it, you've heard that theory touted as "fact").  Nope, the world's greatest playright was a Christian (by the way, if you surfed looking for a picture of Shakespear, please look at the rest of the site too). Click Here to see the whole website.   ENTERTAINERS AND ACTORS    Alan Autry-American actor, politician, and former

NFL football player. He is best known for his role as Captain Bubba Skinner on the television series

In the Heat of the Night,

 

Stephen Baldwin; Fred Berry- pioneer of break dancing, actor best known for Rerun of What's Happening; Hugh Beaumont T.V. icon"Ward Cleaver" on Leave it To Beaver. He was a  Methodist minister who only acted part time so he could continue to be a minister full time; Dan Biggers- actor best known for his role as Frank "Doc" Robb on the television series In the Heat of the Night. He is also the former Dean of Students at Berry College, Mt. Berry Georgia ; ; Frederick Buechner;  Chris Byrd; Candace Cameron; Kirk Cameron; Jim Carrey; Vince Carter; Johnny Cash; James Caviezel; Iris Chacon; Liliana Chacon; G. K. Chesterton; Jaileen Cintron; Jerry Colangelo; William Colgate; Miguel Cotto; Elvis Crespo; ;  Andrea Martin comedianne of SCTV fame.   AGNES MOOREHEAD Actress best known for her role as "Endora" on the '60's ABC sitcom Bewitched. What, you thought she was a Wiccan? <snicker> Nope, she was actually a member of the Methodist Church. According tho the actress who played "Tabitha" on the series, Agnes often read Bible stories on the set in between takes to the children who acted on the show!          Joe English Flemish draughtsman and

painter

; Chad Everett beefcake actor  best known for his role as Dr. Joe Gannon on Medical Center (1969-1976), and Centennial miniseries ;  Gerardo; Clarence Gilyard; Jeff Gordon;  Amy Grant; A.C. Green; Keith Green; Norman Greenbaum; Andy Griffith; M.C. Hammer; David Hart; Darren Hayes; Evander Holyfield; Mahalia Jackson; LeBron James; Marty Jannetty;  Avery Johnson; Dean Jones; Richard Kiel; Gladys Knight; Michael Landon Jr.;  Tom Lester; C Hal Lindsey; Tom Lister Jr.;  Jane Fonda- actress, political activist;       Dick Smothers Dick Smothers came out of the Bible closet a few years back and admitted he was a Christian in a television interview. Small wonder mom always liked him best! (and for that matter, maybe Tom is one too).         Brian Littrell; Angel Manfredy;  Brennan Manning;  Pete Maravich; Kelly Martin; Jerry Mathers; Shawn Michaels; Gavin McCloud; Steve McQueen; Moby; Andy Montanez; Alvy Moore; Mandy Moore; Tia and Tamera Mowry;  Rich Mullins; Lila Murillo; Chelsea Noble; Larry Norman; Chuck Norris; Flannery O'Connor; Carroll O'Connor; Jennifer O'Neill; Ken Osmond;  Peret; Robert Picardo; Petra; Robert Picardo; Jorge Porcel; Mark Price; Aaron Pryor; Michael Redd; Judge Reinhold; Cliff Richard; David Ruprecht; David Robinson; Jose Luis Rodriguez Gonzolez;

Ann B. Davis Yep! Alice from the Brady Bunch is one of us! How can you hate Alice? Be nice and maybe she'll make you some pork chops and apple sauce! Robert Walker - actor (Strangers on a Train, etc.)

 

 

 

Marie Windsor - movie star

Elijah Wood - actor

Heather Young - TV star, Land of Giants

Roy Rogers cowboy actor who appeared in over 100 films ;

Tim Russert Host of NBC's Meet The Press;

Vince Russo;

Alex Sonchez;

Deion Sanders; 

Dorothy L. Sayers;

Martin Sheen;

Arnold Schwarzenegger;

John Schneider The Dukes of Hazzard, Smallville founder of Faith Works! ministries;

Earnie Shavers;

Sonny Shroyer Enos, The Dukes of Hazzard, 

Jessica Simpson;

Michael W. Smith; Sons of the San Joaquin;

Gwen Stefani recording artist, member of No Doubt;

James Stewart Hollywood icon, It's a Wonderful Life, Harvey, Air Force General;

Tonea Stewart; Stryper;

A.J. Styles; 

Mr. T -  80's TV icon, The A Team, Rocky II, 

Thomas of Celino;

P.J. Thomas; 

Randy Travis country music legend;

Christian Ubber;

Yolanda Vadiz;

Dick Van Dyke TV icon The Dick Van Dyke Show, Diagnosis: Murder;

Jaci Velazquez;

Ken Wales;

Susan Wales;

Andre Ward;

Kurt Warner;

Reggie White;

Buck Williams;

Michelle Williams;

Marcos Witt;  

 

 

Alfred Hitchcock  Mis-identified as an atheist by some. One of the masters of cinema, Hitch was actually a devout Roman Catholic who attended church regularly throughout his life. His film North by Northwest (1959) is listed as one of "The 50 Best Catholic Movies of All Time". It is interesting to note that the three best directors who ever worked in Hollywood, Frank Capra, John Ford, and Alfred Hitchcock, were all practicing Catholics. So much for the idea of the detrimental effects in these times of the Church upon art.  "Almost without exception, they [Hitchcock's films, as well as DePalma's, Capra's, Scorsese, Copolla--all Catholics] display a Catholic sense of sin, guilt, atonement and redemption. Their most virtuous heroes struggle with grace as members of a communion of sinners. They seek redemption within a community rather than as individuals, and often salvation is mediated by a loving, self-sacrificing savior."  (from Afterimage by Blake)   Yuri (Yuridia Valenzuela Canseco ) Mexican recording artist "Tú Iluminas Mi Vida" ; During the 1980's-1990's  Yuri's albums and singles often reached the top of the charts, earning her over 100 gold albums in Mexico alone. Charlie Zaa;Colombian Latin pop singer  Steven F. Zambo; president of Salty Earth Pictures His credits include Finding Home, Movie Critters Big Picture, The Daze Before Christmas, Thats Easy for You to Say! and The Daily Grind. Efrem Zimbalist Jr. 77 Sunset Strip and The F.B.I. "Dandy Jim Buckley" on Maverick Stephanie Zimbalist; The Awakening (with Charlton Heston) and The Golden Moment Willie Aames - former actor ("Eight is Enough") turned "Bibleman" Corbin Allred - actor, "Robin Hood: Men in Tights"; "Teen Angel" Billy Barty - actor, famed "Little People" activist, Willow, Sigmund and the Seamonsters, The Bugaloos,   Justine Bateman - actress Family Ties, Gary Burghoff - actor ("Radar O'Reilly" on M.A.S.H.) Gary Busey - actor The Buddy Holly Story,  Kirk Cameron - actor, "Growing Pains" Carl Clarfalio - actor ("The Thing" in Roger Corman's Fantastic Four film) Lacey Chabert - Actress from "Party of Five" Anna Chlumsky - Actress Deezer D - Actor on "E.R.", Christian rapper Clifton Davis - movie star Hazel Dawn - movie star Laraine Day - movie star Mark Deakins - actor "Star Trek: Insurrection", Axum on "Star Trek: Voyager") Donna Douglas - actress ("Elly May Clampett" on Beverly Hillbillies, Frankie Loves Johnny, Twilight Zone) Roma Downey - actress on "Touched by an Angel" Robert Duvall - actor Aaron Eckhart - movie star ("The Pledge", "Erin Brockovich", "Possession", etc., Dale Evans (1912-2001) - actress and Western recording artist,
Demond Wilson He's no big dummy! Yes, "Lamont Sanford" of "Sanford and Son" fame is a Christian. Demond left the glitter and glitz of Hollywood and found Jesus. Now he's a minister!       Kim Fields - actor, "Facts of Life" Rhonda Fleming - movie star  Ryan Gosling - actor ("The Believer", Hercules on "Young Hercules") Andy Griffith - actor, "Andy Griffith Show", Matlock,  Charlton Heston - actor, "The Ten Commandments", Planet of The Apes,   Tom Hanks - Movie legend, Saving Private Ryan, Forrest Gump, Castaway, Dean Jagger - movie star (Academy Award for "Twelve O'Clock High", etc.) Dean Jones - appeared in several Disney films, Danny Kamekona - actor (popular Hawaiian actor; "Hawaii 5-O"; Miyagi's rival "Sato" in "Karate Kid II")
Richard Kiel - actor; Jaws in The Spy Who Loved Me; Moonraker
Carol Lawrence - singer/dancer/actress,

Olivia Newton-John - popular Australian-born singer, actress

Jean Stapleton Played Archie Bunker's tone deaf wife Edith on 70's sitcom All In The Family Stapelton says she often consulted her concordance to look up Bible verses when facing life's problems.

Bruce Marchiano - actor, Jesus in The Gospel According to Matthew

Gavin McLeod - actor, Mary Tyler Moore Show, Captain Stubing on The Love Boat

Terry Moore - Academy Award-nominated actress Come Back, Little Sheba, etc.

Robert Newman - actor,  Austen O'Brian - actor on Promised Land

Merlin Olsen - football player, actor (Little House on the Prairie; Aaron's Way)

Jennifer O'Neill - actor 

Kelly Packard - Wonder Years; Blossom; Step By Step; Baywatch; Boy Meets World

Austin Peck - Soap Opera actor

Della Reese - actress, singer, "Touched by an Angel" Della credits God (the one in the "xtian" Bible) for her miraculous healing, and became a minister. http://www.dellareese.com/html/minst.html 

 

 

 

Pat Priest - actress ("Marilyn Munster" on The Munsters TV show; Easy Come, Easy Go w/Elvis Presley)

Judge Reinhold - actor

Mickey Rooney actor, starred in several movies with Judy Garland,  

Jane Russell - movie star, Connie Seleca - actress, Nancy Stafford - actress on Matlock, MacGyver, David Suchet - actor ("Hercule Poirot" on the PBS series Mystery)

Russ Tamblyn - actor (Peyton Place, West Side Story, etc.)

Ben Vereen - actor,

Paul Walker - movie star (Varsity Blues, Meet the Deedles, The Fast and the Furious, etc.) Loretta Young - movie star (Best Actress Academy Award for The Farmer's Daughter)

  Walker Edmiston (1926 - 2007) Actor and voice-over artist. Hosted L.A. kid's show,"The Walker Edmiston Show" during the '50's & '60's that featured puppets of his own creation. Edmiston appeared on various television programs  during the ‘50s – ‘80s, including Star Trek, Gunsmoke, Mission: Impossible, Get Smart, Maverick, The Wild Wild West, Dallas, Quincy, Knots Landing, The Dukes of Hazzard, The Bob Newhart Show, Fantasy Island, Green Acres, Batman...and just about all the rest. His voice may be best known as the adult John Boy heard narrating on The Waltons. Edmiston did many television commercials and cartoon character voices, such as Ernie Keebler the Elf and various Kellogg’s characters and also on  The Transformers, The Great Mouse Detective, The Smurfs, and The Flintstones, Spiderman, Disney's Gummy Bears, and Jem . Saturday morning wouldn't have been as magical without Edmiston's voice lent to such characters as Sigmund and The Sea Monsters,  H. R. Pufnstuf and The Bugaloos and especially Land of the Lost (he played Enik the Altrusian, and Jefferson Davis Collie III, and did all Sleestak voices,). He also did the voice of Tom Riley and many character voices on the Christian children’s radio program, Adventures in Odyssey, for twenty years.  

Mister Rogers Hey neighbor...did you know the late Fred Rogers was a Christian? I know, you're thinking, "No! He was too nice! He couldn't have been! NOOOOO!" Ah, but it's true. He even had a Doctrate in Theology to boot! 

 

 

 

TV/Movie Producers and Directors
Martha Williamson - executive producer "Touched by an Angel"

John Woo - director, "Mission Impossible II", "Broken Arrow"

Don Bluth - animation director/producer (Land Before Time; Titan A.E.; The Secret of NIMH; etc.)

 

New Zoo Revue People Remember that kids show from the 1970's? Yep, the actors who played the two main characters are in real life both Christians and very active in the Lutheran Church.   Richard Dutcher - director/screenwriter/actor (Girl Crazy; God's Army) Kieth Merrill (Academy award-winning IMAX director; "The Great American Cowboy; "Amazon", etc.) Jerry Molen - movie producer (Schindler's List; Jurassic Park, Twister; Hook; Rain Man; etc.) Richard Rich - animation director (The King and I; The Black Cauldron)  Ken Wales - producer, "Christy" Michael Warren - producer, "Family Matters" Kim Alexis - professional model Al Kasha - film composer, two-time Academy Award winner Jane Clayson - co-anchor, "The Early Show" with Bryant Gumbel Howard Finster - former preacher turned artist Jeff Foxworthy - comedian Kathie Lee Gifford - television talk show host Johnny Hart - cartoonist, "B.C." comic strip Michael Klausman - president, CBS Studio Center Hollywood Mark Lowry - comedian Deborah Norvill - "Inside Edition" anchor Heather Whitestone-McCallum - first deaf Miss America   Michael Gross Mike was the dad on "Family Ties". His sister Mary was on Saturday Night Live in the 80's and was Sabrina The Teenage Witch's teacher. In real life, this brother and sister are (you guessed it) Christians (gasp!). They were so churchy growing up they even used to play Church as kids. And yes, they're still Christians.   Mel Gibbson Perfect? No. In an interview he once said his religion was "somewhere between Howard Stern and St. Francis of Asissi". Like all people, he's done things Christians shouldn't have done, but he's done a lot of good things too. Producer of "the Passion of Christ" movie every non-Christian made fun of (because they're afraid of things they don't understand). Gibson Credits his faith in Christ with saving his life.    

Lisa Whelchel Even though Blair on the Facts of Life was a stuck up diva, Lisa is actually a really nice person and family gal (and one of those awful "xtians"). Tom and Ray Magliozzi (a.k.a.Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers) hosts of National Public Radio's "Car Talk" program.       ATHLETES AND SPORTS   BOXING AND MARTIAL ARTS   George Forman Not only does this ex-heavy weight champ make an awsome grill, but he's a Christian minister! He knocks out the fat and knocks out Satan too!         David B. Smith - Kick Boxing Champion and 6th degree black belt, he's also an Anglican Priest and Father of three! Henry Armstrong - World boxing champion Billy Blanks - Martial Artist, Olympiad,Inventor of Tae Bo Paulie Ayala-Mexican

-

American

former boxer who is a two time world champion. Ayala is a born-again

Christian

, and he professed so by thanking God for his success after virtually each one of his fights. 

Bob Fitzsimmons-Boxing's First Triple World Champion,

Chuck Norris - actor, martial artist, star of Walker Texas Ranger, appeared in dozens of films including Path of The Dragon, Game of Death, and an early student of Bruce Lee's Jeet Kwon Do, as well as Lee's friend.

Johnny Tapia-five-time world boxing champion. Steve "Sting" Borden-professional wrestler and actor 

Tiger Flowers-first African-American middleweight champion; Esteban De Jesus - world lightweight champion boxer ;

  Basketball
Jennifer Azzi,collegiate and professional

basketball

player.

Shane Battier,Houston Rockets Walter Bond, Dee Brown, Hubert Davis,  Bryce Drew , Julius Erving a.k.a, "Dr. J",
Derek Fischer, AC Green , Hersey Hawkins, Ruthie Bolton-Holifield, Allan Houston, Mark Jackson Avery Johnson, Kevin Johnson , Lisa Leslie , Brent Price , David Robinson, Keith Smart,Charlie Ward, Meadowlark Lemon Harlem Globetrotters Fame, Kevin "The Duck"Duckworth;   Baseball
Felipe Alou, Rick Aguillara, Michael Barrett, Jay Bell, Andy Benes, Lance Berkman, Dante Bichette, Jeff Brantley,Paul Byrd,Brett Butler ,Sean Casey,Gary Garter,Joe Carter , Chad Curtis, Dave Dravecky ,JD Drew,Travis Fryman , Joe Girardi, Orel Hershiser , Sterling Hitchcock, Rex Hudler ,Greg McMichael, Kevin Millwood, John Olerud, Andy Pettitte , Harold Reynolds , Bobby Richardson , John Smoltz, Mike Sweeney, Billy Wagner,Walt Weiss, Carlos Baerga, Babe Ruth   Football Tony Dungy Only African American athlete to win 2 superbowls as aplayer and a coach Rosie Greer Football player, Bobby Kennedy's bodyguard, and guy in "The Thing With Two Heads". Yep, he's a Christian minister!           Bruce Matthews, Anthony Munoz
Damon Allen; Doug Peterson, Frank Reich , Deion Sanders , Mike Singletary , Dan Reeves, Gale Sayers , Jay Schroeder, Adam Timmerman, Adam Vinateri, Aeneas Williams, Kurt Warner, Bill Bates, Michael Barrow, Jeff Blake, Kyle Brady, Tim Brown, Mark Brunnel, Ray Buchanan, David Carr , Cris Carter, Howard Cross, Randall Cunningham, Trent Dilfer , Jason Elam, Jeff Fisher , Irving Fryer , Rich Gannon, Joe Gibbs, Jason Gildon, Aaron Glenn, Kent Graham, Darrell Green , Brent Jones ,  Jon Kitna, Steve Largent , Tommy Maddux, Curtis Martin ,     ENTREPENURES and BUSINESS LEADERS   Colonel Harlan Sanders Determined Senior Citizen who founded Kentucky Fried Chicken was a Christian. I guess you don't need magic spells to be rich after all.                         Dave Thomas, founder of Wendy's  Chef Victor Bouardi (Chef Boy-Ar-Dee) Truett Cathy - founder Chik-Fil-A (which is why all Chik-Fil-As are closed on Sundays), Cecil Day - founder Day's Inn, Arthur DeMoss - businessman and author, founder, DeMoss Foundation , H.G. Heinz - founder, Heinz ketchup, Leonard Lesord - founder "Guidepost Magezine",  Norm Miller- Chairman of the Board, Interstate Batteries, Lowell "Bud" Paxxon - founder PAX-TV , James Cash Penney (1875-1971) - founder, J.C. Penney department stores,
Charlie Plumb - motivational speaker, former Vietnam P.O.W.
Tom Pryor - ICMS; ABM , Sam Walton - founder of Wal-Mart , Zig Ziggler - motivational speaker     SOCIAL REFORMERS and HUMANITARIANS   Rosa Parks She was a member of the African-Methodist -Episcopal Church, and actually believed in it too. Her Christian faith only made her feel sorry for the white tormentors who called her "nigger" or threw rocks at her as she walked to school. Reading Psalms 23 and 27 early on had given Rosa McCauley the strength to love her enemies, and eventually overcome them. All haters who mock Christians as weak take note: Christianity made her powerful and strong!   Zofia Kossak-Szczucka- writer of historical novels, she helped save Jews in occupied Poland during the Second World War  Josephine Brawley Hughes - an advocate of women's rights in the

United States

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Dr. Rev.Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) Rev. King often quoted the Bible in his many speeches, and compared the 60's Civil Rights movement to the Exodus of the Jews under Pharo.  He was a Christian minister, husband and father, a civil-rights leader, advocate of non-violence resistance to achieve desegregation in the US, and an internationally recognized Nobel Peace Prize recipient. "I have a d