Wednesday, April 08, 2009

Christian Celebrities?

The principle purpose of the novel I have been writing explores how and why a body of Christian believers falls apart and how this disintegration affects their witness to the world. And in doing so, I’ve been examining contemporary culture and the culture wars. With this in mind, I want to reference various Christian “celebrities”.

Therefore I’ve created a continually update list of such famous individuals.

By “Christian” I mean that the person has stated (either vocally or in writing) that he or she is a Christian or “follower of Jesus.”

Here is the Criterion:

1) Must be fairly well-known
2) Cannot be a “clergyman” or Christian scholar
3) Mormons, Jehovah Witnesses, and Christian Science are excluded from this particular list. Sorry.
4) Generally, a living person unless they have died in the past 20 years.

I want to know if anyone knows of such a Christian that I have missed.

Here is the current list:

Willie Aames
Angela Bassett
William J. Bennett
David Berkowitz
Tony Blair
Bono
Pat Boone
Gary Busey
George W. Bush
Candace Cameron
Kirk Cameron
Jimmy Carter
Johnny Cash
June Carter Cash
Samuel Truett Cathy
Kelly Clarkson
Alice Cooper
Ann Coulter
Billy Ray Cyrus
Miley Cyrus
Bob Dylan
Josef Eszterhas
The Everly Brothers
Mark Fredrick Farner
Jane Fonda
Gordon Gano
Kathie Lee Gifford
Al Green
MC Hammer
HHH
Kathy Ireland
Michael Irvin
Victoria Jackson
Avery Johnson
Dean Jones
Lenny Kravitz
Steven Michael Largent
Rush Limbaugh
Gavin MacLeod
Donna Jean (Godchaux) MacKay
Shawn Michaels
Moby
Mr. T
Barak Obama
Sinead O’Connor
Betty Page
Sarah Palin
Tyler Perry
Dennis Quaid
Christina Ricci
Ann Rice
David Robinson
Mickey Rooney
Rene Russo
Jane Russell
Deion Sanders
John Schneider
Martin Sheen
Jessica Simpson
Noel "Paul" Stookey
John Tesh
Chris Tucker
Jay Underwood
Courtney B. Vance
Luther Vandross
Denis Van Outten
Rick Wakeman
Kurt Warner
Denzel Washington
Brian Welch
Cornel West
Barry White
Juan Williams
"Weird Al" Yankovic
Franco Zeffirelli

Any Suggestions?

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Stephen Baldwin, Eduardo Verástegui.....

Anonymous said...

Would you include Conan O'Brien?

Anonymous said...

Chuck Norris, Andy Griffith, Mike Singletary, Reggie White, Kevin Millwood, Stewart Cink, Evander Holyfield......okay, I'm done.

Nicolas Gold said...

Thanks very much for the suggestions.