On Feb. 23, 1913, Billy Sunday, the most celebrated Christian evangelist in the United States, arrived in Wilkes-Barre to open a large wooden tabernacle recently built on South Main Street.

Evangelist W.A. “Billy” Sunday — baseball player turned tabernacle preacher — came to Canton in 1931 with a hope of turning the passion that fans here felt for sports into a frenzy of faith in God. In ...

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a period of religious revivals was taking place across the country, and one of the best known evangelists of the time lived in this area. Billy Sunday, whose ...

Today’s Free Press Flashback recounts an extended visit to Detroit by the entertaining Billy Sunday, America’s best-known evangelist of the World War I era. Beginning in the 1890s, Billy Sunday, a ...

“Defense of Revival,” based on a sermon by Billy Sunday, a traveling Presbyterian evangelist from the early 20th century, will be part of a performance the Truth in Action Drama Team of Bob Jones ...

The sign on the outside of the tabernacle where Billy Sunday preached almost a century ago read “Canton for Christ,” and the city had spent weeks preparing the for Iowa hell-fire and brimstone ...

A century ago, the most celebrated evangelist in America was a Hoosier not by birth but by choice. As a young man, he had abandoned a lucrative career as a professional baseball player to become a ...

In the early 1900s, Billy Sunday sold what was then a unique brand of muscular, testosterone-laden Christianity. Today, ministers in some of the country's largest churches preach in shirtsleeves and ...

A reader recently sent me an e-mail in which she asked if I knew where the Billy Sunday Auditorium was. It was there that her grandfather, Andrew Ireland, and others in the class of 1921 received ...