2025, JULY 28
A. B. Simpson: From Million Dollar Revivals to Doomsday Prophecy
A. B. Simpson, founder of the Christian and Missionary Alliance, promoted Keswick-style “Higher Life” teachings, sensational revival practices, and apocalyptic fundraising that critics linked to manipulation and misuse of donated funds. His influence—directly and through figures like the Raders, Bosworth, and Frank Sandford—helped spread Second-Blessing theology and shaped later healing-revival movements, even as many of his doctrines and failed predictions drew significant theological and ethical criticism.
