What's New: November 2020

The November update features four new biographies of American religious figures. It includes Catholic theologian and public intellectual Michael Novak; Howard Hunter, a president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints; Stanislaus Petit Lalumiere, a Jesuit priest and cofounder of Marquette College; and Frederick J. Eikerenkoetter II, better known as Reverend Ike, an African American evangelist and popular preacher.

Eikerenkoetter II, Frederick J.(1 June 1935–28 July 2009), evangelist and popular television preacher

Hunter, Howard William (14 Nov.1907–3 Mar. 1995), attorney and fourteenth president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS)

Lalumiere, Stanislaus Petit (15 Feb. 1822–23 Mar. 1895),  Jesuit priest and cofounder of Marquette College

Novak, Michael (9 Sept. 1933–17 Feb. 2017), public intellectual, Catholic theologian, and writer

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