This video is only over 2 minutes long, so it has to involve choices of who to include and who to leave out (by my count they have ten). So before you look at the video, ask yourself who would be on your list for 2011. Then, after you watch, let us know what you may of their choices–did you have any that they didn’t and vice versa? Thanks–KSH.
Some overlap with that list, but here are some more worth noting. The 115 deaths of notables in 2011 on World Magazine’s list included these 26 religion-related ones — see below.).
FROM: [b]World Magazine [/b], Dec. 31, 2011, DEPARTURES
Compiled by Edward E. Plowman
Charles Kingsley Barrett, 94, Aug. 26 | British New Testament scholar, author of Bible commentaries, teacher, and Methodist minister whose opposition to a proposed Anglican-Methodist union in the 1960s gained him recognition.
David Barrett, 83, Aug. 4 | Anglican priest-turned-Baptist and missions researcher who focused on “unreached people groups,” best known as founding editor of the monumental [i]World Christian Encyclopedia.[/i]
Shahbaz Bhatti, 42, March 2 | Pakistan legislator, government Minister for Minorities, human rights advocate opposed to the country’s anti-Christian blasphemy law, and a Catholic who defended fellow Christians from the law’s abuses; gunned down in the streets by an Islamic group claiming he was a “known blasphemer.”
DeLois Barrett Campbell, 85, Aug. 2 | “The mightiest voice of the greatest female trio in gospel,” as the [i]Chicago Tribune[/i] music critic described her. She grew up in church, with Mahalia Jackson and composer Tommy Dorsey as neighbors, and with her siblings performed as the Barrett Sisters for more than 60 years, with over 50 world tours and the acclaimed 1982 documentary, [i]Say Amen, Somebody.[/i]
Ken Curtis, 71, Jan. 3 | Evangelical filmmaker and church historian, founder of Gateway Films/Vision Video and [i]Christian History magazine.[/i]
Samuel Ericsson, 66, Jan. 21 | Lawyer who directed the 4,500-member Christian Legal Society in the 1980s and later founded and headed Advocates International, a large global network of lawyers championing religious freedom. He was lead counsel in the landmark California Supreme Court case in 1988 that closed the door to “clergy malpractice” claims, and was a key architect of the federal Equal Access Act of 1984.
Robert P. Evans, 93, July 28 | Navy chaplain wounded in World War II, evangelist and early leader in Youth for Christ, and founder and long-time director of Paris-based Greater Europe Mission, also an organizer of Billy Graham’s historic 1966 World Congress on Evangelism in Berlin.
George Gallup Jr., 81, Nov. 21 | Evangelical Episcopalian with a Princeton degree in religion who led the well-known opinion polling research company his father founded, expanding it to include sampling and appraising Americans’ views on religion and the level of commitment to their faith.
Edwin Gaustad, 87, March 25 | Influential church historian, a leading expert on religion in colonial America, and author of significant books ([i]The Great Awakening in New England, Religious History of America, Faith of Our Fathers,[/i] and works on theologian Roger Williams), He was a lifelong Baptist who took a strict approach to separation of church and state.
Peter J. Gomes, 68, Feb. 28 | Thundering theologically liberal black Baptist preacher, Harvard Divinity School professor of Christian morals, minister of Harvard University’s campus church, and self-identified “celibate gay” who attacked religious fundamentalism and literal interpretations of the Bible.
William M. Greathouse, 91, March 24 | Scholarly giant of the Wesleyan holiness movement who served as a Church of the Nazarene pastor, university and seminary president, and the denomination’s top leader as general superintendent 1976-1989.
Philip Hannan, 98, Sept. 29 | Catholic archbishop of New Orleans for 23 years, staunch anti-communist, an Army chaplain during WWII in Europe, and during years in the Washington archdiocese, a confidant to President Kennedy, whose funeral sermon he preached.
Nancy Hardesty, 69, April 8 | A former [i]Eternity[/i] and [i]Christian Century[/i] editor, Clemson religion professor, co-author of the influential evangelical feminism book, [i]All We’re Meant To Be,[/i] and co-founder of what is now called the Evangelical and Ecumenical Women’s Caucus.
(Continued below….)
(Religion-related deaths in 2011 – World, Continued)
Mark Hatfield, 89, Aug. 7 | Two-term Oregon governor and Republican U.S. Senator 1967-1997; known for his opposition to the Vietnam war and promotion of federal spending on health-care; an ardent evangelical, pro-life Baptist active in Washington’s prayer breakfast movement.
Arthur F. Holmes, 87, Oct. 8 | Influential and sometimes controversial Wheaton College philosophy professor and author ([i]All Truth is God’s Truth[/i]) who countered the anti-intellectualism he perceived in the American church, pressing for integration of faith and learning.
Ray H. Hughes, 87, April 4 | Former general overseer of the Church of God (Cleveland, Tenn.) and president of the denomination’s Lee College (now University), who also served terms as president of the National Association of Evangelicals, Pentecostal Fellowship of North America, and the Pentecostal World Conference.
Glen Kehrein, 63, Nov. 12 | White leader of Circle Urban Ministry in Chicago who lived and worked in a black neighborhood for three decades, transforming relationships and leading Circle to become a national leader in urban community ministry (he also helped to establish Christian Community Development Association), and who with Raleigh Washington wrote an influential tell-all and how-to book, [i]Breaking Down Walls[/i].
Jack Kevorkian, 83, June 3 | Pathologist and assisted-suicide advocate for the terminally ill, known as “Dr. Death,” imprisoned for eight years and arrested frequently for helping more than 130 patients commit suicide from 1990 to 2000.
Catherine Clark Kroeger, 85, Feb. 14 | New Testament scholar and teacher at Gordon Conwell seminary, author and editor ([i]The IVP Women’s Bible Commentary[/i]), evangelical Presbyterian, and founder of Christians for Biblical Equality who advocated equality of roles for men and women in ministry and church leadership.
J. Harold Lane, 82, June 6 | Southern Gospel Hall of Fame singer (with the Gospel Harmony Boys and The Speer Family) and song writer (“I’m Standing on the Solid Rock” and “Touring That City”),
Joseph E. Mortimer, Jr., 80, July 1 | Catholic founder and publisher of [i]Voices for the Unborn[/i] newspaper who proclaimed the message in billboards and other media that “Abortion Stops a Beating Heart.”
Bernard Nathanson, 84, Feb. 21 | Former Manhattan obstetrican who presided over an estimated 75,000 abortions (including his own child’s), then denounced the practice in 1979, authored a best-seller [i]Aborting America[/i], directed and narrated the pro-life films [i]The Silent Scream and Eclipse of Reason[/i], and as a former atheist found “peace” after converting to Catholicism in 1996.
Eugene Nida, 96, Aug. 25 | Internationally famed linguist, global trainer of missionary translators, and overseer of hundreds of Bible translations as long-time director of translations for the American Bible Society.
Fred Shuttlesworth, 89, Oct. 5 | Alabama Baptist pastor and early leader in the Civil Rights movement, co-founder with Martin Luther King Jr. and Ralph David Abernathy of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957 who became a confrontational activist during 1963 protests in Birmingham that turned violent.
John Stott, 90, July 27 | London-based Anglican preacher, writer, and one of the most influential figures in the formation of the evangelical movement in the 20th century, whose unwavering commitment to the authority of Scripture and scholarly approach to expositing its message won the respect of generations of Christian university students across the globe, many of them nurtured by his best-known book, [i]Basic Christianity[/i].
David Wilkerson, 79, April 27 | Pentecostal evangelist who in 1959 in Brooklyn founded the well-known ministry to troubled teens, Teen Challenge, author of the mega best-seller [i]The Cross and the Switchblade[/i] (1963), and founder in 1987 of Times Square Church in Manhattan, where he was senior pastor, preaching to 5,000 on Sundays until retirement in 2010.
-Ed Plowman