television evangelist, pastor, and expository author from El Cajon, California Adoniram Judson (1788–1850) – missionary to Burma; translated the Bible from English to Burmese Benjamin Keach (1640–1704) – author of scriptural parables and catechism from Southwark, South London, England William Garrett Lewis John Piper Bernard Ramm – Christian apologetics John Rippon Charles Haddon Spurgeon Rick Warren Kenneth N. Taylor – linked to Moody Bible Institute E. W. Kenyon Brethren Lillian Resler Keister Harford – church organizer, editor, author K.V. Simon – poet from India Congregationalist John Adams – religious worker whose poems speak of "flaming piety" Thomas Binney – Congregationalist theologian and poet Samuel Dyer Jonathan Edwards William Ellis – missionary who wrote Madagascar Revisited George MacDonald – Congregationalist pastor John Milton – Paradise Lost Marilynne Robinson – Gilead, 2005 Pulitzer Prize winner John Updike – Rabbit, Run, raised Lutheran, later belonged to Congregationalist and Episcopalian congregations Congregationalist and Puritan James Janeway Lutheran Mikael Agricola – founding figure in Finnish literature Marva Dawn – theological writing Garrison Keillor – humorist John Warwick Montgomery – Christian apologetics Hallgrímur Pétursson – Lutheran priest, poet, and hymnodist Methodist (inclusive of the holiness movement) William F. Albright – Methodist archaeologist who writes on Bible archaeology Esther E. Baldwin – missionary, teacher, translator, writer, editor Julia Colman – temperance educator, activist, editor, writer Edward Eggleston – Methodist minister and author Arno Clemens Gaebelein – Methodist minister and writer Annie Ryder Gracey – author and missionary Phoebe Knapp – Methodist hymnwriter Augustus Baldwin Longstreet – Methodist minister and humorist Mary A. Miller – Methodist historian, editor, and publisher William Williams Pantycelyn – Methodist hymnwriter George Whitefield Alice May Douglas – author of poetry, juvenile literature, non-fiction; newspaper editor Daniel Sidney Warner – Church of God minister and founder of Gospel Trumpet Flyer Moravian and Hussite William Cornelius Reichel, historian Pentecostal Benny Hinn – preacher and author Jimmy Swaggart - preacher and author Plymouth Brethren Arthur Charles Gook – English to Icelandic translations of literature, poems, and hymns Presbyterian Pearl S. Buck – parents were missionaries, but she later left the religion Belle Caldwell Culbertson - foreign missionary, home missionary, author on religious matters, and philanthropist Elisabeth Elliot – missionary Johnny Hart – cartoonist, on the evangelical end of Presbyterianism Emrys ap Iwan – Welsh Presbyterian minister who wrote for newspapers, etc. Timothy Keller – Senior pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City, author of