- Al Jourgensen
Al Jourgensen (born October 9, 1958 in Havana, Cuba), is an American musician best known as the founder and frontman of the industrial metal band Ministry. He is sometimes credited as Alain Jourgensen, Alien Jourgensen, Hypo Luxa (his alias as a music producer), Dog, Alien Dog Star and Buck Satan. He is a member and/or founder of several industrial bands, working as a singer, guitarist or keyboard player. - Oswald Chambers
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917) was a prominent early twentieth century Scottish Protestant Christian minister and teacher. Chambers was born 24 July 1874 in Aberdeen, Scotland to devout Baptist parents. He converted in his teen years. While walking home from a service conducted by Charles Spurgeon, he mentioned to his father that, had there been an opportunity, he would have become a Christian. - Rick Joyner
Rick Joyner heads MorningStar Ministries (also known as Morningstar Publications and Ministries), which he cofounded with his wife Julie Joyner in 1985. He is also the founder, executive director, and senior pastor of MorningStar Fellowship Church based in Fort Mill, South Carolina. He has five children: Anna, Aaryn, Amber, Ben, and Sam. He also oversees MorningStar's School of Ministry, Fellowship of Ministries, and Fellowship of Churches. - Hugh Ross
Hugh Norman Ross (born July 24, 1945) is a Canadian-born Old Earth creationist and Christian apologist. An astronomer by training, he has established his own ministry called Reasons To Believe that promotes a form of Old Earth creationism known as progressive creationism. Ross accepts the scientific evidence of the age of the earth and the age of the universe, but he rejects evolution and abiogenesis as explanations for the history and origin of life. - Paul Barker
Paul Barker (born February 8, 1958 in Palo Alto, California), was bassist, producer and engineer with the industrial metal band Ministry from 1986 to 2004. He sometimes uses the alias Hermes Pan. He joined Ministry in 1986 for the Twitch tour as a touring bassist, before which he was a member of The Blackouts with his brother Roland Barker & Ministry drummer Bill Rieflin. He became an official member on the classic 1988 album The Land of Rape and Honey. - Joey Jordison
Nathan Jonas "Joey" Jordison is an American drummer, bass guitarist and guitarist. He is best known for his role as the drummer for the band Slipknot during the 1990s and 2000s. He is also well known as the guitarist for Murderdolls, a glam metal/horror punk band which he founded in the 2000s, that is currently on hiatus due to the Murderdolls' members' main projects. Since the spring of 2006, he has been the live drummer for the industrial metal band Ministry. - Chris Connelly
Chris Connelly is a Scottish musician who became famous for his industrial music work of the late 1980s and early 1990s, particularly his many collaborations with the band Ministry. He has since established himself as a talented alternative singer/songwriter. His vocal style is often compared to that of Scott Walker and David Bowie. - Tommy Victor
Tommy Victor is the lead singer and guitarist for the crossover thrash/thrash metal band Prong that he founded in New York (1986). After Prong’s 6th album was released (1996), Prong disbanded and Tommy moved to Los Angeles. Since then Tommy has sporadically toured and released new Prong material. During times that Prong sits idle, Tommy Victor has worked with legends of the rock world, including Rob Zombie, Marilyn Manson, … - Jerry Savelle
Jerry Savelle is president of Jerry Savelle Ministries International (JSMI), a ministry of many outreaches devoted to meeting the needs of believers all over the world.<br /> "Dr." Savelle, as he often goes by, first established his ministry, Jerry Savelle Evangelistic Association, in 1974 as a traveling ministry with only one employee. His ministry has grown immensely since those beginning days and now encompasses the United States as well as locations abroad. - Ron Kenoly
Ron Kenoly (born December 6, 1944 in Coffeyville, Kansas) is a Christian worship leader whose express mission is "to create an environment for the manifest presence of God". His musical style is one of jubilant praise and individual excellence on musical instruments. Although Ron himself does not play on any of his recordings, he leads comfortably with his voice and is always backed up by a team of world class musicians and a large choir. - Adrian Sherwood
Adrian Sherwood is an English record producer best known for his work with dub music as well as for remixing a number of popular acts such as Coldcut, Depeche Mode, Primal Scream, Pop Will Eat Itself, Sinéad O'Connor, and Skinny Puppy. He is co-founder of Carib Gems and Pressure Sounds, and founder of Hitrun Records as well as Green Tea Records and Soundboy Records. His most well-known label is On-U Sound Records. He is also the fourth member of industrial funk outfit, … - Nivek Ogre
Nivek Ogre (real name Kevin Graham Ogilvie) born December 5, 1962 is the vocalist best known for his work in the seminal, and notably experimental, industrial band Skinny Puppy. Since that band featured another Kevin (Crompton, aka cEvin Key) and was produced by another Ogilvie (Dave, aka Rave), Ogre's alias was practical as well as theatrical. Ogre is the driving force behind Skinny Puppy's live shows which feature performance art, … - James Robison
James Robison (born in 1943 in Houston, Texas) is the founder and President of the Christian relief organization LIFE Outreach International. Robison was born as the product of a rape. He has been involved in ministry since 1962. Robison co-hosts his ministries television program LIFE today, with his wife Betty. Robison is also the author of various books.. James and Betty have two daughters and one son who they adopted and 11 grandchildren. - Dennis Jernigan
Dennis Jernigan is a homosexual singer-songwriter of contemporary Christian music. He is native to Oklahoma, and headquarters a music-based ministry from there. As of 2007, Jernigan lives in Muskogee, Oklahoma, with his wife of 24 years and their nine children. - Martin Atkins
Martin Atkins (born in Coventry, England on August 3, 1959), is a drummer and session musician best known for his work in post-punk and industrial groups including Public Image Ltd., Ministry, Pigface, and Killing Joke. - Terry Macalmon
Terry MacAlmon is a Christian songwriter, recording artist and worship leader who specializes in writing and performing worship songs. He runs a worship music ministry based in Colorado Springs, Colorado and travels around the United States leading worship at conferences, retreats, worship seminars and churches. He is well known for writing the popular song "I Sing Praises" that has been a Top 40 Christian song around the world, … - Sin Quirin
Sin Quirin is a guitar player from LA. He was the touring guitarist for the Revolting Cocks' 2006 MasturbaTour, and continues to work with Al and co and is featured throughout the final Ministry record, "The Last Sucker". - Alan Brown
Alan John Brown (born 25 January 1946), Australian politician, was an Liberal member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly and Leader of the Opposition from 1989-1991. A local businessman before entering politics, Brown entered the Legislative Assembly at the 1979 election as the Liberal member for the now abolished seat of Westernport easily defeating Doug Jennings who had been expelled from the Liberal Party in 1977. - Carl Wieland
Dr. Carl Wieland was a former atheist and a medical doctor in Adelaide, South Australia, when he began the first creationist organisation in Australia in 1977, the Creation Science Association . In 1978 he began publishing Ex Nihilo (now Creation magazine). He is a former president of the Christian Medical Fellowship of South Australia and is currently the managing director of Creation Ministries International (CMI) in Australia. - Gibby Haynes
Gibson Jerome "Gibby" Haynes (born 1957) is an American musician, radio personality, painter and the lead singer of the group Butthole Surfers. - David Adam
David Adam was born in Alnwick, Northumberland. When he left school at 15, he went to work underground in the coal mines for three years before training for the ministry at Kelham Theological College. He was vicar of Danby in North Yorkshire for over twenty years, where he began of writing prayers in the Celtic pattern, and he later became vicar of Holy Island, Lindisfarne, where he ministered to thousands of pilgrims and other visitors. - Larry Williams
Larry Williams was an American rhythm and blues and rock and roll singer, songwriter and pianist from New Orleans, Louisiana. He is best known for writing and recording some Rock 'n' Roll standards from 1957 to 1959 for Specialty Records, including "Bony Moronie" and "Dizzy Miss Lizzy" (see also: The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll). Several of his songs achieved later success as cover versions by The Beatles ("Bad Boy", "Slow Down", … - Luc van Acker
Luc van Acker is a musician from Tienen, Belgium. He began writing and releasing solo material in 1982, and worked with a few other bands and with Anna Domino over the next few years. Then in 1985, he met Richard 23 of Front 242 at the DNA Club in Brussels, Belgium, and thereby became a founding member of Revolting Cocks with Ministry's Al Jourgensen. - William Gurnall
William Gurnall (1617 - October 12, 1679), English author, was born at King's Lynn, Norfolk. He was educated at the free grammar school of his native town, and in 1631 was nominated to the Lynn scholarship in Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he graduated BA in 1635 and MA in 1639. He was made rector of Lavenham in Suffolk in 1644; and before he received that appointment he seems to have officiated, perhaps as curate, at Sudbury. - John Bechdel
John Bechdel was born in August of 1964. Bechdel is a keyboardist, and has been a part of many bands over the years including Ministry, Fear Factory, Abstinence, Prong, Killing Joke, Murder, Inc. and Brian Brain to name a few. Right now his main musical focal points are False Icons and Ascension of the Watchers. Bechdel's sister is cartoonist and author Alison Bechdel; John Bechdel appears as a minor character in her acclaimed memoir "Fun Home". - Mike Scaccia
Mike Scaccia (born in Texas, USA), is an American musician, best known as the lead (and sometimes rhythm) guitarist for the hard rock bands Ministry and The Revolting Cocks. - William Tucker
William Tucker (1961 - May 14, 1999) was a guitarist whose credits included work with Ministry, My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult, Pigface, Chemlab, and Chris Connelly. He grew up in New Jersey where he formed Regressive Aid with Andrew Weiss and Sim Cain of the Rollins Band. He also taught guitar lessons to locals, one of whom was Mickey "Dean Ween" Melchiondio of the popular alternative band Ween. On May 14, 1999, 38-year-old Tucker was found dead in his apartment, … - Jeff Ward
Jeff Ward (November 18 or 28, 1962 - March 19, 1993) was a drummer for bands including Hammeron, Nine Inch Nails, Revolting Cocks, Ministry, Lard, and Low Pop Suicide. He committed suicide in 1993 by carbon monoxide poisoning after struggling with heroin addiction. Nine Inch Nails' 1994 album "The Downward Spiral" and Lard's 1997 release "Pure Chewing Satisfaction" both featured dedications to him, … - Alan Walker
Reverend Dr Sir Alan Walker, O.B.E., M.A., D.D. (4 June 1911 - 29 January 2003) was an Australian theologian and evangelist. He was: *involved in the formation of the World Council of Churches *Superintendent of the Methodist (later Uniting Church in Australia) Wesley Mission, Pitt Street, Sydney, 1958-1978 and one of the founders of NCYC in 1955 and Lifeline in 1963 *first world director of evangelism for the World Methodist Council, … - Justin Broadrick
Justin Broadrick (born 1969 in Birmingham, England) is a founding member of the band Godflesh, one of the first bands to crossover elements of rock and industrial music. - John Paterson
John Paterson (d. 1679), bishop of Ross, born in 1604, graduated from King's College, Aberdeen in 1624, and was appointed to the church of Foveran, Aberdeenshire, in 1632. He refused to sign the National Covenant of 1639, and fled to England to the king. In July of the following year, however, he recanted in a sermon before the general assembly, and was restored to his church at Foveran. He was a member of the commission of the assembly in 1644, 1645, 1648, and 1649, … - Desmond Ford
Dr. Desmond "Des" Ford is an Australian Seventh-day Adventist scholar, known for his dynamic and grace centred preaching. He is a well known figure within Seventh-day Adventist circles for his role in the Glacier View doctrinal discussions of 1980 concerning the investigative judgment. Originally an Anglican, Ford was converted to the Seventh-day Adventist Church after reading the Ellen G. White publication "The Great Controversy" in his late teens. - Martin Luther King Sr.
Reverend Martin Luther King, Sr. (December 19, 1899 - November 11, 1984) was a Baptist minister, an early civil rights leader and an advocate for social justice. He was also the father of American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., who was born in 1929. The elder King (also known as 'Daddy King') led the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, and his personal example helped inspire Martin Luther King Jr. to enter the ministry. King Sr. - Louis Svitek
Louis Svitek - guitarist for M.O.D., Ministry, Pigface, Mind Funk, and Project .44. You can also find his work in many movie soundtracks such as The Matrix, The Crow, & Blue Hill Ave. He now owns and operates his own recording studio and independant record label, "Wu Li Records" in Chicago, IL. Wuli Records is responsible for discovering Chicago's acts such as The Redd, 2 Unique, Young Inno, The Waking, and Lee DeWyze. - William Rieflin
William "Bill" Rieflin (born September 30, 1960) is a contemporary musician and is currently drumming for R.E.M.. In the past he has worked with Ministry, the Revolting Cocks, KMFDM, Pigface, Swans, Chris Connelly, Nine Inch Nails and many others. He lives in Seattle, is married to the artist Francesa Sundsten and is one of the founders of the independent music label First World Music. He likes to read manuals of 1940's English kitchen appliances. - Rey Washam
Rey Washam is a drummer who has been performing for more than 20 years. He has a cult following due to his collaborations with many bands, the most notable of which include: Scratch Acid, Rapeman, Ministry, the Big Boys, Helios Creed, the Didjits, Lard, and Tad. When Jason Schwartzman of Phantom Planet left that band, Washam was hired to fill in on drums for a tour which never materialized. - Ralph Woodrow
Ralph Woodrow is an Evangelical Christian Minister, speaker and author of 14 books. Woodrow formerly supported the thesis of the 19th century churchman Alexander Hislop that Roman Catholicism is a syncretistic pagan religion in his book "Babylon Mystery Religion" and gained a certain notoriety when he changed his view and pulled the work from circulation. His new viewpoint is documented in "The Babylon Connection". - Duane Denison
Duane Denison is a rock guitarist, formerly for The Jesus Lizard and Firewater and currently for Tomahawk. He began his musical career by studying classical guitar. Denison and ex-Ministry bassist Paul Barker recently collaborated to form a new band, U.S.S.A. - John Monte
John Monte was a bassist for M.O.D., Mind Funk, Ministry, Revolting Cocks, and a guitarist for Handful Of Dust. - Greg Neyman
Greg Neyman (born 1960) is an American-born Old Earth Creationist. A geologist by training, he has established his own ministry called Answers In Creation that promotes all forms of Old Earth creationism, such as progressive creationism, theistic evolution, and the gap theory. He accepts the scientific evidence of the age of the earth and the age of the universe, and promotes the belief that an old earth is not in conflict with the Genesis account of creation.
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