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"'And the Lord went before them. . .by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light.' --Exodus 13:21
The Pillar of Fire was founded in 1901 and is incorporated as a 501(C)(3) educational, benevolent and charitable association.
With roots in the early Methodist Episcopal Church, it is Christian in character and evangelical in outreach. Its operations range from one-on-one relationships to powerful radio stations.
The Pillar of Fire's ultimate purpose is the building up of Christian character among all people. Pillar of Fire International sponsors a wide spectrum of outreach ministries.
The Pillar of Fire is distinctly dependent upon God financially. Its great resource is prayer, and the results are a striking commentary on the text, "Call unto Me; and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not." [Jeremiah 33:3] The only endowment the church has is "His riches in glory by Christ Jesus" [Philippians 4:19] through which, it is promised, God will "supply all the need" of His servants."
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"Alma Bridwell White was the founder, and a bishop, of the Pillar of Fire Church. In 1918, she became the first woman bishop in the United States. She was noted for her association with the Ku Klux Klan in New Jersey. Under White's leadership in the 1920s, the Pillar of Fire Church developed a close and public partnership with the Ku Klux Klan that was unique for a religious denomination. She saw the Klan as a powerful force that could help liberate white Protestant women, while simultaneously keeping minorities in their place. Her support of the Klan was extensive. She allowed and sometimes participated in Klan meetings and cross burnings on some of the numerous Pillar of Fire properties. She published The Good Citizen, a monthly periodical which heavily promoted the Klan and its agenda. Additionally, she published three books, The Ku Klux Klan In Prophecy, Klansmen: Guardians of Liberty, and Heroes of the Fiery Cross, which were compendiums of the essays, speeches and cartoons that had originally been published in The Good Citizen.
While her association with the Klan waned in the early 1930s, she continued to promote her ideology of intolerance for religious and racial minorities. She even republished her three Klan books in 1943, three years before her death and 21 years after her initial association with the Klan. The books were published as a three volume set under the name Guardians of Liberty. Notably, the word Klansmen was removed from the title, suggesting White's distancing from the Klan while continuing to promote the dogma that initially drew her to partner with the Klan. Volumes two and three of Guardians of Liberty have introductions by Arthur Kent White, her son and the Pillar of Fire's second general superintendent."
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