Calvin Newton, the gifted tenor and longtime Lookout Mountain resident dubbed the "bad boy of gospel" for his boxing prowess, jail stints and radiant charisma, died at the age of 93 and received military honors Tuesday afternoon at Chattanooga National Cemetery.
From humble roots in Western North Carolina to a megachurch, television station and restaurant in Cuyahoga Falls: Ernest Angley was both loved and ridiculed.
TV evangelist, faith healer Ernest Angley dies at 99
Updated May 09, 2021;
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AKRON, Ohio The Rev. Ernest W. Angley, a faith-healing Pentecostal televangelist who claimed a lifetime of personal visits from God, died Friday at age 99, according to an announcement on the website of his Cuyahoga Falls-based ministry.
The preacher rose over the decades from tent revivalist to running a world-wide ministry with his namesake from what would be a vast home base in suburban Akron. Delivering his sermons in his distinctive drawl, Angley was one of the most influential modern-day faith healers and televangelists, though not as flashy as some of his contemporaries.
Cuyahoga Falls Pentecostal televangelist Ernest Angley dies at age 99
Updated 12:02 AM;
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AKRON, Ohio The Rev. Ernest W. Angley, a faith-healing Pentecostal televangelist who claimed a lifetime of personal visits from God, has died at age 99, according to an announcement Friday on the website of his Cuyahoga Falls-based ministry.
The preacher rose over the decades from tent revivalist to running a world-wide ministry with his namesake from what would be a vast home base in suburban Akron. Delivering his sermons in his distinctive drawl, Angley was one of the most influential modern-day faith healers and televangelists, though not as flashy as some of his contemporaries.
The couple appeared together in tent revivals, auditoriums, and churches throughout the south before moving the ministry to Springfield Township, southeast of Akron, in 1954.
Within a few years, the church had matured from a pop-up tent in a parking lot to a $1 million building that drew thousands of followers a week.
Angley also aired his services on radio until he bought WBNX-55, which has been in operation since 1985.
Author Stephen Pullum told Cleveland.com that Angley offered hope to the hopeless.
But he also drew controversy when he was arrested in Germany in 1984 over charges of fraud and practicing medicine without a license. And he was criticized by officials in Guyana, South America in 2006 for allegedly claiming that he could cure AIDS.