Christians

At some time during their lives, the following people have publicly identified themselves as Christian.   Inclusion in this list does not indicate approval or disapproval of the person, of their orthodoxy or lack of it, or of their actions.  Readers are encouraged to suggest persons who should be included on this list.  This is a recurring segment in this blog. 

Cecil M. Whitmire: (b. Tennessee –d. 2010, aged 74) Hardware business executive, theater organist.  With his wife, Linda, he is credited with organizing and heading the salvation and restoration pf the Alabama Theater, which was in danger of being demolished in 1987.  It is now a fully restored old-style movie and stage-show theater.  Methodist.

Herbert Evan Zeiger, Jr.: (b. 1949, Alabama – d. 2010) Neurosurgeon, spinal surgeon, aviator, Christian Medical Mission of Alabama. Baptist.  He and his wife perished in a small plane crash.

Necati Aydin: (Murdered 2007, aged 36) Martyr, actor, seminary graduate, pastor, Bible publisher.  He and two other men were attacked, tortured, and murdered in their Bible publishing house in Malatya, Turkey by several Muslim men.

Teshima Ikuro: (b. 1910, Japan – d. 1973; aka: Teshima Abraham Ikuro, Abraham Ikuro Teshima) Founder of the Makuya (Holy Tabernacle) Movement.  The Makuyas insist that they are a return to original Hebraic Christianity and are Zionists with an emphasis on encountering God in everyday life.  Their sacred symbol is the Menorah rather than the Cross.

Theognis of Nicea: (fl 4^th century) Bishop of Nicea.  Theognis was an Arian who reluctantly signed the Nicene Creed.  Three months after the Council, he was excommunicated and exiled for his lukewarm condemnation of Arius.