Wednesday, August 29, 2007
George Lucas - writer, director, producer ("Star Wars", etc.)
Christopher Walken - actor, movie star
Will Rogers - popular TV and film cowboy; humorist
Tim Curry - actor
Rush Limbaugh - popular conservative talk show host
Harry Reems - starred in historically popular "adult film" Deep Throat (later became an actively religous Christian)
James Knox Polk - 11th U.S. President
Ulysses S Grant - 18th U.S. President
George W. Bush - 43rd U.S. President (convert from Episcopal Church)
Dick Cheney - U.S. Vice-President under George W. Bush
Hillary Clinton - senator from New York; former First Lady with Pres. Bill Clinton
Geronimo - Apache Indian leader; his final 1886 surrender was last significant Indian guerrilla action in U.S. (1903: convert to Methodism)
Joycelyn Elders controvoersial U.S. Surgeon General (September 1993 to December 1994) who focused on public health and sexual topics
John Edwards - U.S. senator from North Carolina; 2004 Democratic Vice-Presidential candidate
Karen Carpenter and Richard Carpenter - famed, top-selling mellow singing duo "The Carpenters"
Dionne Warwicke - singer
Toni Braxton - popular pop, R&B singer
Tori Amos - singer/songwriter/pianist
Nina Simone - singer, pianist, composer
Roberta Flack - singer, composer, musician
Stephen King - best-selling horror writer (raised in a nominal Methodist home)
Stephen Crane - novelist, poet; author of The Red Badge of Courage, etc.
John Wesley - founder of Methodism (but he was a life-long Anglican)
Charles Wesley - hymn composer; John Wesley's brother (1701 - 1788); co-founder of Methodism (he was "the first Methodist," although officially he was a life-long Anglican)
Oral Roberts - controversial famous evangelist, charismatic televangelist (converted to Methodist from a Pentecostal Holiness church in 1968)
Harriet Tubman - abolitionist, freed slaves using "Underground Railroad"
Rosa Parks - black woman whose refusal to give up her seat on a bus helped launch the U.S. Civil Rights Movement
Sojourner Truth - abolitionist, black activist (convert to SDAs)
Jackie Robinson - professional baseball player
Tom Landry - professional football coach; director of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes
Bart Starr - football player
Fran Tarkenton - professional football player
John Wesley Hardin - gun fighter; one of deadliest gunslingers in the old West
Ted Bundy - infamous serial killer
Ken Lay - was C.E.O. of scandalous and criminal large energy corporation Enron
UMC's got some freaks, y'all!
You forgot Todd Wright - famed worship leader and songwriter.
Some list!
you also forgot Willie and Bobbie Nelson the Wrigley family and the Walgreen family.
oh yea and Superman
also the Kellogg family and Hank Hill and family.
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