Sam Shoemaker Biography, Age, Weight, Height, Friend, Like, Affairs, Favourite, Birthdate & Other

Samuel Moor Shoemaker was a renowned priest who lived in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. A rector of the Episcopal Church, Samuel’s sermon were relayed through the electronic media such as radio and tape. As a graduate student he had a keen interest in the political scenario which probably stemmed from his admiration of President Woodrow Wilson and was against brainwashing students with righteousness of war and military training in educational institutes.

A sensitive individual, he rather preferred being involved in missionary work. He started his evangelistic career in China where he went as a part of the Princeton in China Program. He was later taken under the guidance of Frank Buchman, who was associated with the Oxford Group. His association of the Episcopal Church began when he was ordained as deacon of the institution. He then reinvented the Calvary Church of Manhattan where he served as the rector for a span of eleven years.

The Faith at Work movement later emerged as the Moral Re-Armament movement. Samuel’s ideas later laid the foundation of Alcoholics Anonymous. He also authored several books on religion and philosophy throughout his life and many of them became followers of the Oxford Group and New York. Read on to know more about his life and works.