Gillian Jacobs
speaker
189 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard Sep 2025
Gillian Jacobs’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But also, LA in 1918 was a small but rapidly growing city packed with Christian migrants from the Midwest and South.
It was a place looking for spiritual guidance.
She imagined her temple to be a grand colosseum like neoclassical structure with a soaring dome overhead, and while those combinations of words generally conjure a very specific type of macho architecture, she built this structure to mirror her femininity.
McPherson and her mother Minnie were able to work out a unique deal with a construction company that was famous for building movie palaces around the city.
They allowed her to pay in installments and build whatever they could afford incrementally.
McPherson would travel around holding revivals to raise funds, and they would construct parts of the temple piecemeal as the money came in.
Its auditorium sat fifty three hundred people in tiered stadium style seating.
The stage could accommodate a hundred person choir, a full orchestra, and elaborate stage sets.
But Sister Amy wanted to bring the spirited energy and large congregation of the big, roving, tent revival style worship permanently indoors.
And in doing so, she helped create the blueprint for all the mega churches that came after
Because this was Los Angeles and LA was at its core a small town at the time, sister Amy had access to people who worked in the movie business.
She tapped Hollywood stage managers, set designers, lighting designers, and makeup artists to bring her vision to life.
Sister Amy herself was the riveting center of it all.
This is Dan Scott, head docent of the Angeles Temple Heritage Museum again.
Despite her incredible popularity and status as a local celebrity, McPherson knew that she could reach far more people than a few thousand Angelinos a week.
So the year after she opened the Angelus Temple, she also built her very own Christian radio station where she could reach followers as far away as Hawaii.
In person the services engaged with sets, costumes and lighting changes, but McPherson understood that with the radio, she could communicate just as effectively because of the intimacy of hearing a voice
Within just a couple of years of establishing her ministry, the Four Square Gospel Association already had thirty two church branches in Southern California, with dozens of other churches applying to become affiliates of the Angelus Temple.
She was also under a very intense kind of scrutiny as a woman in a position of power.
А на сел деструк манифesteд і саули без айс.
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