In honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. (born 15 Jan 1929), this week's Connection Checkers
game features religious leaders. Per wikitree.com I am:
22 degrees from Martin King
19 degrees from John Boehm
15 degrees from Everardus Bogardus
21 degrees from Catherine Booth
17 degrees from Sister Mary Teresa DeLille
20 degrees from William Graham
15 degrees from Alexander Mack
20 degrees from Aimee McPherson
19 degrees from William Penn
21 degrees from C T Russell
19 degrees from John Smyth
20 degrees from John Wesley
More about them:
Martin Luther King, Jr., Baptist minister and founder of the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference.
Johann Philip Boehm, founder of the Reformed Church in America.
Evert Bogardus, second dominee, or minister, of the Dutch Reformed Church of New
Amsterdam in New Netherland.
Catherine Booth, referred to as the "Mother of the Salvation Army" and known as a
pioneering Christian feminist.
Mother Henriette DeLille, founded the Sisters of the Holy Family in 1836 and served as
their first Mother Superior.
Billy Graham, Christian Evangelist whose global ministry reached millions.
Alexander Mack, leader and first minister of the Schwarzenau Brethren (or German
Baptists, also informally known in the US as "Dunkers") in the Schwarzenau, Wittgenstein community of modern-day Bad Berleburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Aimee Semple McPherson, known as "Sister Aimee," was a Canadian-American Los Angeles˙based evangelist. She founded the Foursquare Church.
William Penn, Quaker who founded Pennsylvania as a bastion of religious freedom.
Charles Taze Russell, religious leader who founded the Watch Tower Bible and Tract
Society (later known as Jehovah's Witnesses).
John Smyth, Baptist founder.
John Wesley, founder of Methodism.
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hockey players, singers and musicians, painters, physicians, politicians, poets,
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