Stadium name	Mabee Center
Location	7777 South Lewis AvenueTulsa, Oklahoma 74171
Opened	1972
Owner	Oral Roberts University
Phone	(918)495-6000
Building manager	Tony Winters
Tenants	ORU Golden Eagles (Men's NCAA Basketball) (1972–present)
Seating capacity	theatre: 2,774–4,064end stage: 7,000–9,000full house/basketball: 10,554–11,300

Mabee Center is an 11,300-seat multi-purpose arena, located on the campus of Oral Roberts University, in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

An adjacent building, smaller but similar in shape, is known as "Baby Mabee" and houses a television production studio.

It opened in 1972 and has hosted the NAIA national men's basketball championship (1994-1998), five NCAA men's first-round or regional tournaments (1974, 1975, 1978, 1982, 1985) and the Midwestern City Conference (now Horizon League) men's basketball conference tournaments (1982, 1985).

It is home to the Oral Roberts Golden Eagles men's and women's basketball teams. It was Eastern Oklahoma's largest arena until the BOK Center was built.

Historic performances

Johnny Cash - October 1972

Tom Jones - May 1973

Sonny & Cher - June 1973

Johnny Mathis - November 1973

Elvis Presley - March 1974 and July 1976

KISS - March 8, 1976

Natalie Cole - August 1977

Neil Diamond - December 1977

America - March 1978

David Gates and Bread - December 1978

Billy Joel - March 1979

The Bee Gees - August 3, 1979

Kenny Rogers - January 1981

The Beach Boys - February 1981

Crosby, Stills & Nash - August 1982

Barry Manilow - January 1983

Lionel Richie - May 1984

Alabama - March 1985

James Taylor - August 1986

Huey Lewis and the News - October 1986

Chicago - March 1987

The Moody Blues - June 1987

Air Supply - September 1987

The Judds - November 1987

Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson - March 1988

Hall & Oates - August 1988

The Manhattan Transfer - August 1988

AC/DC - December 8, 1990

Michael Bolton - July 1992

Garth Brooks - August 1992

Kenny G - May 1993

Frank Sinatra - March 1994

Julio Iglesias - September 1995

Bride - September 1997

Leanne Rimes - February 1998

Hanson - July 8 and September 24, 1998

Martina McBride - April 2000

Alison Krauss - June 2000

Spirit of the Dance - November 2002

Jay Leno - June 2004

Olivia Newton-John - September 21, 2004

Luciano Pavarotti - September 2005

Dolly Parton - November 9, 2005

Reba McEntire and Kelly Clarkson - February 1, 2008

Kirk Franklin - July 2009

B.B. King - December 31, 2009

External links

Mabee Center Website

Mabee Center Historical Performances

Category:College basketball venues in the United States Category:Indoor arenas in the United States Category:Oral Roberts University Category:Sports in Tulsa, Oklahoma Category:Sports venues in Oklahoma Category:Basketball venues in the United States Category:Buildings and structures in Tulsa, Oklahoma

Name	Kathryn Kuhlman
Birth date	May 09, 1907
Birth place	Concordia, Missouri, U.S.A
Religion	Christianity
Nationality	American (of German ancestry)
Known for	Faith healing
Occupation	Evangelist
Spouse	Burroughs Allen Waltrip (Mister), October 18, 1938- ? 1948(divorced)
Death date	February 20, 1976
Death place	Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S.A.
Death cause	complications from open heart surgery.
Parents	Joseph Adolph Kuhlman and Emma Walkenhorst
Mentored	Joan Gieson }}

Kathryn Johanna Kuhlman (May 9, 1907–February 20, 1976) was an American faith healer and evangelist.

Early life

Kathryn Johanna Kuhlman was born in Concordia, Missouri, to German-American parents. She was born-again at the age of 14 in the Methodist Church of Concordia, and began preaching in the West at the age of sixteen in primarily Baptist Churches.

Career

Kuhlman traveled extensively around the United States and in many other countries holding "healing crusades" between the 1940s and 1970s. She had a weekly TV program in the 1960s and 1970s called ''I Believe In Miracles'' that was aired nationally. The foundation was established in 1954, and its Canadian branch in 1970.

Following a 1967 fellowship in Philadelphia, Dr. William A. Nolen conducted a case study of 23 people who claimed to have been cured during her services. Nolen's long term follow-ups concluded there were no cures in those cases. Furthermore, one woman who was said to have been cured of spinal cancer took off her brace and ran across the stage at Kuhlman's command; her spine collapsed the following day and she died four months later.

By 1970 she moved to Los Angeles conducting faith healing for thousands of people each day as an heir to Aimee Semple McPherson. She became well-known despite, as she told reporters, having no theological training. In 1935, Kathryn met Burroughs Waltrip, an extremely handsome Texas evangelist who was eight years her senior. Despite the fact that he was married with two small boys, they soon found themselves attracted to each other. Shortly after his visit to Denver, Waltrip divorced his wife, left his family and moved to Mason City, Iowa, where he began a revival center called Radio Chapel. Kathryn and her friend and pianist Helen Gulliford came into town to help him raise funds for his ministry. It was shortly after their arrival that the romance between Burroughs and Kathryn became publicly known.

Burroughs and Kathryn decided to wed. While discussing the matter with some friends, Kathryn had said that she could not “find the will of God in the matter.” These and other friends encouraged her not to go through with the marriage, but Kathryn justified it to herself and others by believing that Waltrip’s wife had left him, not the other way around. On October 18th, 1938, Kathryn secretly married “Mister,” as she liked to call Waltrip, in Mason City. The wedding did not give her new peace about their union, however. After they checked into their hotel that night, Kathryn left and drove over to the hotel where Helen was staying with another friend. She sat with them weeping and admitted that the marriage was a mistake. She decided to get an annulment.

In 1975, Kuhlman was sued by Paul Bartholomew, her personal administrator, who claimed she kept $1 million in jewelry and $1 million in fine art hidden away and sued her for $430,500 for breach of contract. Two former associates accused her in the lawsuit of diverting funds and illegally removing records, which she denied and said the records were not private. According to Kuhlman, the lawsuit was settled prior to trial.

Death and legacy

In July 1975 her doctor diagnosed her with a minor heart flareup and she had a relapse in November while in Los Angeles. As a result, she had open heart surgery in Tulsa, Oklahoma from which she died in February 1976. Kathryn Kuhlman is interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. A plaque in her honor is located in the main city park in Concordia, Missouri, a town located in central Missouri on Interstate Highway 70.

After she died, her will led to controversy. She left $267,500, the bulk of her estate, to three family members and twenty employees. Smaller bequests were given to 19 other employees. According to the ''Independent Press-Telegram '', her employees were disappointed that "she did not leave most of her estate to the foundation as she had done under a previous 1974 will." The Kathryn Kuhlman Foundation has continued, but in 1982 it terminated its nationwide radio broadcasting. She influenced faith healers Benny Hinn and Billy Burke. Hinn has adopted some of her techniques and wrote a book about her.

Healing

Kuhlman's critics claim that she deceived her audience because there is no scientific evidence to validate faith healing.

Many accounts of healings were published in her books, which were "ghost-written" by author Jamie Buckingham of Florida, including her autobiography, which was dictated at a hotel in Las Vegas. Buckingham also wrote his own Kuhlman biography that presented an unvarnished account of her life.

Many other faith healers, including Benny Hinn, who have been inspired by Kathryn Kuhlman have faced similar suspicions about their methods and practices.

References

Books by Kuhlman

Kathryn Kuhlman, ''I Believe in Miracles'' Bridge-Logos Publishers; Rev Upd edition (October 1992) ISBN 0882706578

Kathryn Kuhlman, ''Never Too Late'' Bridge-Logos Publishers (August 1995) ISBN 0882707205

External links

Kathryn Kuhlman Foundation -Official

Find A Grave Entry

Joan Gieson with Kathryn Kuhlman

Christian Music Central wiki page

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name	Garrison Keillor
birth name	Gary Edward Keillor
birth date	August 07, 1942
birth place	Anoka, Minnesota
medium	Radio, Print
nationality	American
active	1969–present
genre	Observational comedy, Satire
subject	American culture (esp. the Midwest); American politics
spouse	Mary Guntzel (1965–1976) Ulla Skaerved (1985–1990) Jenny Lind Nilsson (1995–present)
notable work	Himself, Guy Noir, Lefty, Bob Burger, and Lake Wobegon narrator in ''A Prairie Home Companion''
footnotes	}}

Gary Edward "Garrison" Keillor (born August 7, 1942) is an American author, storyteller, humorist, and radio personality. He is known as host of the Minnesota Public Radio show ''A Prairie Home Companion'' (also known as ''Garrison Keillor's Radio Show'' on United Kingdom's BBC Radio 4 Extra, as well as on RTÉ in Ireland, Australia's ABC, and Radio New Zealand National in New Zealand).

Personal life

Keillor was born in Anoka, Minnesota, the son of Grace Ruth (née Denham) and John Philip Keillor, who was a carpenter and postal worker. The family belonged to the Plymouth Brethren, a fundamentalist Christian denomination Keillor has since left. He is six feet, three inches (1.9 m) tall and has Scots and Norwegian ancestry. Keillor is a member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party. In 2006 he told ''Christianity Today'' that he was attending the Episcopal church in Saint Paul, after previously attending a Lutheran church in New York. He graduated from the University of Minnesota with a bachelor's degree in English in 1966. While there, he began his broadcasting career on the student-operated radio station known today as Radio K.

Keillor has been married three times:

To Mary Guntzel, from 1965 to 1976. The couple has one son, Jason, born in 1969.

To Ulla Skaerved (a former exchange student from Denmark at Keillor's high school whom he famously re-encountered at a class reunion), from 1985 to 1990.

To violinist Jenny Lind Nilsson (b. 1957), who is from his hometown of Anoka, since 1995. They have one daughter, Maia Grace Keillor, born December 29, 1997.

Between his first and second marriages he was also romantically involved with Margaret Moos, who worked as a producer of ''A Prairie Home Companion''.

The Keillors maintain homes on the Upper West Side of New York City and in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

One of his brothers, the historian Steven Keillor, is also an author.

On September 7, 2009, Keillor was briefly hospitalized after suffering a minor stroke.

Ancestors

In his book ''Homegrown Democrat'' (2004), Keillor mentions some of his noteworthy ancestors, including Joseph Crandall, who was an associate of Roger Williams (who founded the first American Baptist church as well as Rhode Island), and Prudence Crandall, who founded the first African-American women's school in America.

Career

Radio

Garrison Keillor started his professional radio career in November 1969 with Minnesota Educational Radio (MER), now Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) and distributing programs under the American Public Media (APM) brand. He hosted ''The Morning Program'' in the weekday drive time slot of 6 to 9 a.m. on KSJR 90.1 FM at St. John's University in Collegeville, which the station called "A Prairie Home Entertainment." The show's eclectic music was a major divergence from the station's usual classical fare. During this time he also began submitting fiction to ''The New Yorker,'' where his first story, "Local Family Keeps Son Happy," appeared on September 19, 1970.

Keillor resigned from ''The Morning Program'' in February 1971 to protest what he considered an attempt to interfere with his musical programming. The show became ''A Prairie Home Companion'' when he returned in October.

Keillor has attributed the idea for the live Saturday night radio program to his 1973 assignment to write about the Grand Ole Opry for ''The New Yorker'', but he had already begun showcasing local musicians on the morning show, despite limited studio space for them, and in August 1973 ''The Minneapolis Tribune'' reported MER's plans for a Saturday night version of ''A Prairie Home Companion'' with live musicians.

''A Prairie Home Companion'' debuted as an old-style variety show before a live audience on July 6, 1974, featuring guest musicians and a cadre cast doing musical numbers and comic skits replete with elaborate live sound effects. The show was punctuated by spoof commercial spots from such fictitious sponsors as Jack's Auto Repair ("All tracks lead to Jack's where the bright shining lights show you the way to complete satisfaction") and Powdermilk Biscuits, which "give shy persons the strength to get up and do what needs to be done." Later imaginary sponsors have included Ralph's Pretty Good Grocery ("If you can't find it at Ralph's, you can probably get along without it"), Bertha's Kitty Boutique, the Ketchup Advisory Board (which touted "the natural mellowing agents of ketchup"), the American Duct Tape Council, and Bebop-A-Reebop Rhubarb Pie ("sweetening the sour taste of failure through the generations"). The show also contains parodic serial melodramas, such as ''The Adventures of Guy Noir, Private Eye'' and ''The Lives of the Cowboys.'' After the show's intermission, Keillor reads clever and often humorous greetings to friends and family at home submitted by members of the theater audience in exchange for an honorarium.

Also in the second half of the show, the broadcasts showcase a weekly monologue by Keillor entitled ''The News from Lake Wobegon.'' The town is based in part on Keillor's own hometown of Anoka, Minnesota, and in part on Freeport and other towns in Stearns County, where he lived in the early 1970s. Lake Wobegon is a quintessential but fictional Minnesotan small town "where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average." ''A Prairie Home Companion'' ran until 1987, when Keillor decided to end it; he worked on other projects, including another live radio program, "The American Radio Company of the Air"—which had almost the same format as ''A Prairie Home Companion'''s—for several years. In 1993 he began producing ''A Prairie Home Companion'' again, in a format nearly identical to the original's, and has done so since. On ''A Prairie Home Companion,'' Keillor receives no billing or credit (except "written by Sarah Bellum," a joking reference to his own brain); his name is not mentioned unless a guest addresses him by his first name or the initials "G. K.," though some sketches feature Keillor as his alter ego, Carson Wyler.

''A Prairie Home Companion'' regularly goes on the road and is broadcast live from popular venues around the United States, often featuring local celebrities and skits incorporating local color. Keillor also sometimes gives broadcast performances of a similar nature that do not carry the "Prairie Home Companion" brand, as in his 2008 appearance at the Oregon Bach Festival. In March 2011, Keillor announced that he would be retiring from "A Prairie Home Companion" in 2013.

Keillor is also the host of ''The Writer's Almanac'' which, like ''A Prairie Home Companion,'' is produced and distributed by American Public Media. ''The Writer's Almanac'' is also available online and via daily e-mail installments by subscription.

Writing

Keillor has written numerous magazine and newspaper articles and more than a dozen books for adults as well as children. In addition to writing for ''The New Yorker,'' he has written for ''The Atlantic Monthly'' and ''Salon.com.''

He also authored an advice column at ''Salon.com'' under the name "Mr. Blue." Following a heart operation, he resigned on September 4, 2001, his last column being titled "Every dog has his day":

Illness offers the chance to think long thoughts about the future (praying that we yet have one, dear God), and so I have, and so this is the last column of Mr. Blue, under my authorship, for Salon. Over the years, Mr. Blue's strongest advice has come down on the side of freedom in our personal lives, freedom from crushing obligation and overwork and family expectations and the freedom to walk our own walk and be who we are. And some of the best letters have been addressed to younger readers trapped in jobs like steel suits, advising them to bust loose and go off and have an adventure. Some of the advisees have written back to inform Mr. Blue that the advice was taken and that the adventure changed their lives. This was gratifying.

So now I am simply taking my own advice. Cut back on obligations: Promote a certain elegant looseness in life. Simple as that. Winter and spring, I almost capsized from work, and in the summer I had a week in St. Mary's Hospital to sit and think, and that's the result. Every dog has his day and I've had mine and given whatever advice was mine to give (and a little more). It was exhilarating to get the chance to be useful, which is always an issue for a writer (What good does fiction do?), and Mr. Blue was a way to be useful. Nothing human is beneath a writer's attention; the basic questions about how to attract a lover and what to do with one once you get one and how to deal with disappointment in marriage are the stuff that fiction is made from, so why not try to speak directly? And so I did. And now it's time to move on.

In 2004 Keillor published a collection of political essays, ''Homegrown Democrat,'' and in June 2005 he began a column called "The Old Scout", which ran at Salon.com and in syndicated newspapers. The column went on hiatus in April 2010 "so that he [could] finish a screenplay and start writing a novel".

Keillor wrote the screenplay for the 2006 movie ''A Prairie Home Companion,'' directed by Robert Altman. (Keillor also appears in the movie.)

Bookselling

On November 1, 2006, Keillor opened an independent bookstore in the historic Cathedral Hill area of Saint Paul, Minnesota. "Common Good Books, G. Keillor, Prop." is located at the southwest corner of Selby and N. Western Avenues (in the Blair Arcade Building, Suite 14, in the basement, below Nina's Coffee Cafe). Cathedral Hill is in the Summit-University neighborhood. The bookstore's opening was covered by the ''St. Paul Pioneer Press''.

Awards and other recognition

Keillor received a Medal for Spoken Language from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1990. In 1994, Keillor was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame. He received a National Humanities Medal from the National Endowment for the Humanities in 1999. "Welcome to Minnesota" markers in interstate rest areas near the state's borders include statements such as "Like its neighbors, the thirty-second state grew as a collection of small farm communities, many settled by immigrants from Scandinavia and Germany. Two of the nation's favorite fictional small towns -- Sinclair Lewis's Gopher Prairie and Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon -- reflect that heritage." In 2007, The Moth, a NYC-based not-for-profit storytelling organization, awarded Garrison Keillor the first ''The Moth Award - Honoring the Art of the Raconteur'' at the annual Moth Ball. In September 2007, Keillor was awarded the 2007 John Steinbeck Award, given to artists who capture "the spirit of Steinbeck's empathy, commitment to democratic values, and belief in the dignity of the common man." Keillor received a Grammy Award in 1988 for his recording of ''Lake Wobegon Days''. He has also received two CableACE Awards and a George Foster Peabody Award.

Controversies

In 2005, Keillor's attorneys sent a cease-and-desist letter to MNSPeak.com regarding their production of a T-shirt bearing the inscription "A Prairie Ho Companion."

In 2006, after a visit to a United Methodist Church in Highland Park, Texas, Keillor created a local controversy with his remarks about the event, including the rhetorical suggestion of a connection between event participants and supporters of torture and a statement creating an impression of political intimidation: "I walked in, was met by two burly security men ... and within 10 minutes was told by three people that this was the Bushes' church and that it would be better if I didn't talk about politics." The security detail is purportedly routine for the venue, and according to participants, Keillor did not interact with any audience members between his arrival and his lecture. Supposedly, before Keillor's remarks, participants in the event had considered the visit to have been cordial and warm.

In 2007, Keillor wrote a column that in part criticized "stereotypical" gay parents, who he said were "sardonic fellows with fussy hair who live in over-decorated apartments with a striped sofa and a small weird dog and who worship campy performers." In response to the strong reactions of many readers, Keillor said

I live in a small world -- the world of entertainment, musicians, writers -- in which gayness is as common as having brown eyes .... And in that small world, we talk openly and we kid each other a lot. But in the larger world, gayness is controversial ... and so gay people feel besieged to some degree and rightly so .... My column spoke as we would speak in my small world, and it was read by people in the larger world and thus the misunderstanding. And for that, I am sorry. Gay people who set out to be parents can be just as good parents as anybody else, and they know that, and so do I.

In 2008, Keillor created a controversy in St. Paul when he filed a lawsuit against his neighbors' plans to build an addition on their home, citing his need for "light and air" and a view of "open space and beyond". Keillor's home is significantly larger than others in his neighborhood and would still be significantly larger than his neighbors' with its planned addition. Keillor came to an undisclosed settlement with his neighbors shortly after the story became public.

Voiceover work

Due to his distinctive North Central accent, Keillor is often used as a voiceover actor. Some notable appearances include: Voiceover artist for Honda UK's "the Power of Dreams" campaign. The campaign's most memorable advertisement is the 2003 Honda Accord commercial ''Cog'', which features a Heath Robinson contraption (Rube Goldberg Machine for those in the USA) made entirely of car parts. The commercial ends with Keillor asking, "Isn't it nice when things just work?" Since then, Keillor has voiced the tagline for most if not all Honda UK advertisements, and even sang the voiceover in the 2004 Honda Diesel commercial "Grrr". His most recent ad was a reworking of an existing commercial with digitally added England flags to tie in with the World Cup. Keillor's tagline was "Come on, England, keep the dream alive."

Voice of the Norse god Odin in an episode of the Disney animated series ''Hercules''.

Voice of Walt Whitman and other historical figures in Ken Burns's documentary series ''The Civil War and Baseball.''

Cultural references

His style, particularly his speaking voice, is often the subject of parody. ''The Simpsons'' parodied Keillor in an episode in which Homer is shown watching a Keillor-like monologist on television; Homer hit the set exclaiming "Stupid TV! Be more funny!".

One Boston radio critic likens Keillor and his "down comforter voice" to "a hypnotist intoning, 'You are getting sleepy now'," while noting that Keillor does play to listeners' intelligence. Keillor rarely reads his monologue from a script.

One of the audio bumpers which begins each hour of Dennis Miller's radio talk show features a short clip of Keillor introducing a broadcast of ''APHC'', followed immediately by snoring.

In the bonus DVD material for the album ''Venue Songs'' by band They Might Be Giants, John Hodgman delivers a fictitious newscast in which he explains that "The Artist Formerly Known as Public Radio Host Garrison Keillor" and his "legacy of Midwestern pledge-drive funk" inspired the band's first "venue song."

Pennsylvanian singer-songwriter Tom Flannery wrote a song in 2003 entitled "I Want a Job Like Garrison Keillor's."

Bibliography

Keillor's work in print includes:

Lake Wobegon

''Lake Wobegon Days'' (1985), ISBN 0-14-013161-2; a recorded version of this won a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word or Non-musical Album in 1988

''Leaving Home'' (1987; collection of Lake Wobegon stories), ISBN 0-670-81976-X

''We Are Still Married'' (1989; collection including some Lake Wobegon stories), ISBN 0-670-82647-2

''Wobegon Boy'' (1997), ISBN 0-670-87807-3

''Lake Wobegon Summer 1956'' (2001), ISBN 0-571-21014-7

''In Search of Lake Wobegon'' (Photographs by Richard Olsenius, 2001), ISBN 0-670-03057-6

''Pontoon: A Novel of Lake Wobegon '' (2007), ISBN 0-670-06356-8

''Liberty: A Novel of Lake Wobegon '' (2008), ISBN 0-670-01991-7

''Life among the Lutherans'' (2009), ISBN 978-0-8066-7061-4

''Pilgrims: A Wobegon Romance'' (2009), ISBN 978-0-670-02109-3

Other

''Happy to Be Here'' (1981), ISBN 0-06-811201-7

''WLT: A Radio Romance'', (1991), ISBN 0-670-81857-7

''A Visit to Mark Twain's House audio (1992), ISBN 0-942110-82-X

''The Book of Guys'' (1993), ISBN 0-670-84943-X

''The Sandy Bottom Orchestra'' (with Jenny Lind Nilsson, 1996), ISBN 0-7868-1250-8

''Me, by Jimmy "Big Boy" Valente'' (1999), ISBN 0-670-88796-X

''Good Poems'' (2002), ISBN 0-670-03126-7

''Love Me'' (2003), ISBN 0-670-03246-8

''Homegrown Democrat'' (2004), ISBN 0-670-03365-0

''Good Poems for Hard Times'' (2005), ISBN 0-670-03436-3

''77 Love Sonnets'' (2009), ISBN 0-14-311527-8

''A Christmas Blizzard'' (2009), ISBN 978-0-670-02136-9

''Good Poems, American Places'' (2011), ISBN 0-670-02254-3

Contributions to ''The New Yorker''

! Title	! Department	! Volume/Part	! Date	! Page(s)	! Subject(s)
Notes and Comment	The Talk of the Town	60/47	7 January 1985	17-18	A friend's visit to San Francisco and Stinson Beach, California.

See also

A Prairie Home Companion

References

Keillor, Garrison. In search of Lake Wobegon. ''National Geographic.'' December 2000.

Lee, Judith Yaross. ''Garrison Keillor: A Voice of America.'' Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1991. ISBN 978-0-87805-457-2.

"Lights! Camera! Retake!". ''Telegraph'' (2003). Retrieved 2005-06-07.

External links

A Prairie Home Companion radio website Garrison Keillor's public radio show

A Prairie Home Companion movie website The movie written by Garrison Keillor and directed by Robert Altman

Minnesota Zen Master - a detailed profile of Garrison Keillor, published in ''The Guardian'', March 6, 2004.

Kingdom of the Frown - A feature article from The Reykjavík Grapevine on Garrison Keillor

At Home With Garrison Keillor: Where All the Rooms Are Above Average New York Times June 1, 2006

Garrison Keillor ''Charlie Rose'' interviews

Garrison Keillor at City Arts & Lecture on Fora.tv

An interview with Garrison Keillor (www.everydayyeah.com)

Garrison Keillor - The Man on the Radio in the Red Shoes PBS ''American Masters''

Speech by Keillor at Concordia University February 15, 2011

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Name	Don Moen
Background	solo_singer
Birth date	June 29, 1950
Origin	Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Instrument	Vocals, Piano, Keyboards, Violin
Genre	CCM, Contemporary worship music, Gospel
Occupation	Singer-songwriter, worship leader, musician, producer, pastor, businessman, radio hostFormer Integrity Music occupations:President of Integrity Music, President of Integrity Label Group, Executive Vice President of Integrity Media, Integrity Music producer, Integrity Music executive producer, Integrity Media creative director
Years active	1984–present
Label	Integrity Music, Hosanna! Music, Integrity Asia, Sparrow, Star Song, Word, Epic, Columbia, Sony
Website	http://www.donmoen.com/ }}

Don Moen (born June 29, 1950 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American singer-songwriter, pastor, and producer of Christian worship music.

Before Moen was hired to work for Integrity Music, he attended Oral Roberts University and became a Living Sound musician for Terry Law Ministries and traveled with Terry Law for ten years. He produced 11 volumes for the ''Hosanna! Music'' series of worship albums. His first album under his own name, ''Worship with Don Moen'', was released in 1992. His music has total global sales of over five million units.

Moen worked for Integrity Media for over 20 years, serving as creative director and president of Integrity Music, president of Integrity Label Group, and an executive producer of Integrity Music albums. He left Integrity Media in 2008 to start a new initiative, The Don Moen Company. The Don Moen Company acquired MediaComplete, the church software company that created MediaShout. Moen became a radio host for ''Don Moen & Friends'' in 2009. Moen received a Dove Award for his work on the musical ''God with Us'' in addition to amassing nine nominations for his songs. Moen is also a prolific songwriter, having worked with Claire Cloninger, Paul Overstreet, Martin J. Nystrom, Randy Rothwell, Ron Kenoly, Bob Fitts, Debbye Graafsma, Paul Baloche, Tom Brooks, among many others. He has also worked with talented musicians, Justo Almario, Abraham Laboriel, Alex Acuna, Paul Jackson, Jr. and Carl Albrecht. His name is associated with some of the most well-known songs in Contemporary Christian Music.

Notable recordings

Moen's first album for ''Hosanna! Music'', ''Give Thanks'', became the label's bestseller. He followed this with a number of successful albums of his own including two, ''En Tu Presencia'' and ''Trono De Gracia'', in Spanish. On an Asian tour in 1999 he recorded ''The Mercy Seat'' at Singapore Indoor Stadium in Singapore and ''Heal Our Land'' at Yoido Park in South Korea, which was released in 2000. One of Moen's albums, ''I Will Sing'', was recorded at Christian Broadcasting Network.

''God Will Make a Way: The Best of Don Moen'' was released in 2003 and features 19 greatest hits. The title song was written for his wife's sister and her husband, who lost their oldest son in an auto accident while three other children were seriously injured. Moen's album, ''Hiding Place'', became his first studio album which was recorded at Paragon Studios in Franklin, Tennessee and was released in the autumn of 2006. ''I Believe There Is More'' released on fall 2008. His third studio recording titled ''Uncharted Territory'' (funded successfully through Kickstarter), plus his Christmas recording, are expected to release on 2011.

Discography

{{infobox discography | type	live | Name ''Give Thanks'' | Released 1986 | Format CD, tape, digital download | Label Integrity, Hosanna! Music, Sparrow, Epic, Sony | Writer | Producer Tom Brooks, Michael Coleman (Executive), Ed Lindquist (Executive) | Chart position | Sales | Certification Gold | Tracks Fifteen | Bonus tracks | Singles | from Album | Other info live }}

{{infobox discography | type	live | Name ''Steadfast Love'' | Released 1988 | Format CD, tape, digital download | Label Integrity, Hosanna! Music, Sparrow, Columbia, Sony | Writer | Producer Tom Brooks, Michael Coleman (Executive), Ed Lindquist (Executive), Don Moen (Executive) | Chart position | Sales | Certification | Tracks Fourteen | Bonus tracks | Singles | from Album | Other info live }}

{{infobox discography | type	live | Name ''Bless the Lord'' | Released 1989 | Format CD, tape, digital download | Label Integrity, Hosanna! Music, Sparrow-Star Song, Columbia, Sony | Writer | Producer Tom Brooks, Michael Coleman (Executive), Ed Lindquist (Executive) | Chart position | Sales | Certification | Tracks Fourteen | Bonus tracks | Singles | from Album | Other info live }}

{{infobox discography | type	live | Name ''Christmas'' | Released 1990 | Format CD, tape, digital download | Label Integrity, Hosanna! Music, Sparrow-Star Song, Columbia, Sony | Writer | Producer Tom Brooks, Michael Coleman (Executive), Ed Lindquist (Executive) | Chart position | Sales | Certification | Tracks Seventeen | Bonus tracks | Singles | from Album | Other info live }}

{{infobox discography | type	live | Name ''Eternal God'' | Released 1990 | Format CD, tape, digital download | Label Integrity, Hosanna! Music, Sparrow-Star Song, Columbia, Sony | Writer | Producer Tom Brooks, Michael Coleman (Executive), Ed Lindquist (Executive) | Chart position | Sales | Certification | Tracks Thirteen | Bonus tracks | Singles | from Album | Other info live }}

{{infobox discography | type	live | Name ''Worship with Don Moen'' | Released 1992 | Format CD, tape, video, VCD | Label Integrity, Hosanna! Music, Word | Writer | Producer Tom Brooks, Michael Coleman (Executive), Ed Lindquist (Executive) | Chart position | Sales | Certification | Tracks Twelve | Bonus tracks | Singles | from Album | Other info live }}

{{infobox discography | type	live | Name ''God with Us'' | Released 1993 | Format CD, tape, video, VCD | Label Integrity, Hosanna! Music, Sparrow | Writer | Producer Tom Fettke, Tom Hartley (Executive) | Chart position | Sales | Certification Dove Award | Tracks Seventeen | Bonus tracks | Singles | from Album | Other info live }}

{{infobox discography | type	live | Name ''Trust in the Lord - Live Worship with Don Moen'' | Released 1994 | Format CD, tape, video, VCD, digital download | Label Integrity, Hosanna! Music, Columbia, Sony | Writer | Producer Mark Gasbarro, Don Moen (Producer and Executive Producer), Michael Coleman (Executive) | Chart position | Sales | Certification | Tracks Seven | Bonus tracks | Singles | from Album | Other info live }}

{{infobox discography | type	live | Name ''Mighty Cross'' | Released 1994 | Format CD, tape | Label Integrity, Hosanna! Music | Writer | Producer Tom Hartley, Michael Coleman (Executive), Don Moen (Executive) | Chart position | Sales | Certification | Tracks Eight | Bonus tracks | Singles | from Album | Other info live }}

{{infobox discography | type	live | Name ''Rivers of Joy'' | Released 1995 | Format CD, tape, digital download | Label Integrity, Hosanna! Music, Columbia, Sony | Writer | Producer Don Harris, Michael Coleman (Executive), Don Moen (Executive) | Chart position | Sales | Certification | Tracks Fourteen | Bonus tracks | Singles | from Album | Other info live }}

{{infobox discography | type	live | Name ''Emmanuel Has Come'' | Released 1996 | Format CD, tape, digital download | Label Integrity, Hosanna! Music, Columbia, Sony | Writer | Producer Steven V. Taylor, Chris Long (Executive), Michael Coleman (Senior Executive), Don Moen (Senior Executive) | Chart position | Sales | Certification | Tracks Ten | Bonus tracks | Singles | from Album | Other info live }}

{{infobox discography | type	compilation | Name ''Praise with Don Moen'' | Released 1996 | Format CD, tape, digital download | Label Integrity, Hosanna! Music, Integrity Asia, Columbia, Sony | Writer | Producer Tom Brooks, Don Harris, Michael Coleman (Executive), Don Moen (Executive) | Chart position | Sales | Certification | Tracks Ten | Bonus tracks | Singles | from Album | Other info compilation }}

{{infobox discography | type	live | Name ''Let Your Glory Fall'' | Released 1997 | Format CD, tape, digital download | Label Integrity, Hosanna! Music, Columbia, Sony | Writer | Producer Tom Brooks, Don Moen (Executive), Chris Long (Executive) | Chart position | Sales | Certification | Tracks Eleven | Bonus tracks | Singles | from Album | Other info live }}

{{infobox discography | type	live | Name ''God for Us'' | Released 1998 | Format CD, tape, digital download | Label Integrity, Hosanna! Music, Columbia, Sony | Writer | Producer Tom Fettke, Don Moen (Executive), Randy Vader (Executive) | Chart position | Sales | Certification | Tracks Eighteen | Bonus tracks | Singles | from Album | Other info live }}

{{infobox discography | type	live | Name ''God Is Good - Worship with Don Moen'' | Released 1998 | Format CD, tape, video, DVD, VCD | Label Integrity, Hosanna! Music | Writer | Producer Tom Brooks, Don Moen (Executive), Chris Thomason (Executive) | Chart position | Sales | Certification | Tracks Eleven | Bonus tracks Twelve (Asia version) | Singles | from Album | Other info live }}

{{infobox discography | type	live | Name ''En Tu Presencia'' | Released 1999 | Format CD, tape, digital download | Label Integrity, Hosanna! Music, Columbia, Sony | Writer | Producer Isaac Hernandez, Tom Brooks, Don Harris, Don Moen (Executive), Chris Thomason (Executive), Dario Navac (Executive) | Chart position | Sales | Certification | Tracks Twelve | Bonus tracks | Singles | from Album | Other info live }}

{{infobox discography | type

compilation | Name ''More of You, Lord - Praise with Don Moen Volume 2'' | Released 1999 | Format CD, tape | Label Integrity, Hosanna! Music, Integrity Asia | Writer | Producer Tom Brooks, Russell Fragar, Don Harris, Chris Springer, Darlene Zschech, Don Moen (Executive), Chris Thomason (Executive) | Chart position | Sales | Certification | Tracks Eleven | Bonus tracks | Singles | from Album | Other info compilation }}

{{infobox discography | type	video | Name ''Give Thanks'' | Released 1999 | Format VCD | Label Integrity, Hosanna! Music, Integrity Asia | Writer | Producer Steve Merkel, Tom Brooks, Mark Gasbarro, Don Moen (Executive), Chris Thomason (Executive) | Chart position | Sales | Certification | Tracks Eleven | Bonus tracks | Singles | from Album | Other info video }}

{{infobox discography | type	live | Name ''The Mercy Seat'' | Released 2000 | Format CD, tape, digital download | Label Integrity, Hosanna! Music, Integrity Asia, Columbia, Sony | Writer | Producer Tom Brooks, Don Moen (Executive), Chris Thomason (Executive) | Chart position | Sales | Certification | Tracks Twelve | Bonus tracks | Singles | from Album | Other info live }}

{{infobox discography | type	live | Name ''Heal Our Land'' | Released 2000 | Format CD, tape | Label Integrity, Hosanna! Music, Integrity Asia | Writer | Producer Tom Brooks, Don Moen (Executive), Paul Wilbur (Executive) | Chart position | Sales | Certification | Tracks Fourteen | Bonus tracks | Singles | from Album | Other info live }}

{{infobox discography | type	live | Name ''I Will Sing'' | Released 2000 | Format CD, tape, video, DVD, VCD, digital download | Label Integrity, Hosanna! Music, Epic, Sony | Writer | Producer Paul Mills, Don Moen (Executive), Chris Thomason (Executive) | Chart position | Sales | Certification | Tracks Nineteen | Bonus tracks | Singles | from Album | Other info live }}

{{infobox discography | type	live | Name ''God in Us'' | Released 2001 | Format CD, tape, digital download | Label Integrity, Hosanna! Music, Columbia, Sony | Writer | Producer Tom Fettke, Don Moen (Executive), Randy Vader (Executive) | Chart position | Sales | Certification | Tracks Ten | Bonus tracks | Singles | from Album | Other info live }}

{{infobox discography | type	greatest hits | Name ''God Will Make a Way: The Best of Don Moen'' | Released 2003 | Format CD, tape, digital download | Label Integrity, Hosanna! Music, Epic, Sony | Writer | Producer Tom Brooks, Don Harris, Paul Mills, Don Moen (Executive), Chris Thomason (Executive) | Chart position | Sales | Certification | Tracks Nineteen | Bonus tracks | Singles | from Album | Other info greatest hits }}

{{infobox discography | type

live | Name ''Trono de Gracia'' | Released 2003 | Format CD, tape, digital download | Label Integrity, Hosanna! Music, Columbia, Sony | Writer | Producer Miguel Angel "Malin" Villagran, Tom Brooks, Paul Mills, Don Moen (Executive), Keith Manwaring (Executive), Dario Navac (Executive) | Chart position | Sales | Certification | Tracks Twelve | Bonus tracks | Singles | from Album | Other info live }}

{{infobox discography | type	live | Name ''Thank You Lord'' | Released 2004 | Format CD, tape, video, DVD, VCD, digital download | Label Integrity, Hosanna! Music, CBN, Epic, Columbia, Sony | Writer | Producer David Hamilton, Don Moen (Executive), Chris Thomason (Executive) | Chart position | Sales | Certification | Tracks Fourteen | Bonus tracks | Singles | from Album | Other info live }}

{{infobox discography | type	EP | Name ''Arise: The Worship Legacy of Don Moen'' | Released 2006 | Format Digital download | Label Integrity, Hosanna! Music, Columbia, Sony | Writer | Producer David Hamilton, Don Moen (Executive) | Chart position | Sales | Certification | Tracks Four | Bonus tracks | Singles | from Album | Other info EP }}

{{infobox discography | type	studio | Name ''Hiding Place'' | Released 2006 | Format CD, digital download | Label Integrity, Hosanna! Music, Columbia, Sony | Writer | Producer David Hamilton, Don Moen (Executive) | Chart position | Sales | Certification | Tracks Twelve | Bonus tracks | Singles | from Album | Other info album }}

{{infobox discography | type	studio | Name ''I Believe There Is More'' | Released 2008 | Format CD, digital download | Label Integrity, Hosanna! Music, Columbia, Sony | Writer | Producer Don Moen, Michael Coleman (Executive) | Chart position | Sales | Certification | Tracks Fourteen | Bonus tracks | Singles | from Album | Other info album }}

{{infobox discography | type	greatest hits | Name ''With a Thankful Heart: The Best of Don Moen'' | Released 2011 | Format CD | Label Integrity, Hosanna! Music, Integrity Asia | Writer | Producer Tom Brooks, David Hamilton, Don Harris, Paul Mills, Don Moen, Andy Skarda (Executive) | Chart position | Sales | Certification | Tracks Fifteen | Bonus tracks | Singles | from Album | Other info greatest hits }}

{{infobox discography | type	studio | Name ''Uncharted Territory'' | Released 2011 | Format CD | Label Don Moen Productions | Writer | Producer Don Moen | Chart position | Sales | Certification | Tracks | Bonus tracks | Singles | from Album | Other info }}

{{infobox discography | type	studio | Name TBA Untitled Christmas Album | Released 2011 | Format CD | Label | Writer | Producer | Chart position | Sales | Certification | Tracks | Bonus tracks | Singles | from Album | Other info }}

Other recordings

''Hatiku'' (1995)

''Behold the Lamb'' (1997)

''Healing'' (1998)

''The Smithton Outpouring'' (1999)

''Hope Changes Everything'' (2000)

''Mas de Ti'' (2000)

''Sing for Joy'' (2002)

''Amor Sin Limites'' (2004)

''American Worship Gathering'' (2005)

''Arise: A Celebration of Worship'' (2006)

''Cool Worship'' (2010)

''A Little Boy's Prayer'' (2010)

Awards and nominations

! Year	! Association	! Category	! Result
	Dove Awards	Song of the Year "God Will Make A Way"
Dove Awards	Creator - Children's Musical Album of the Year "I'm A Helper"
	Dove Awards	Artist - Inspirational Album of the Year "Worship with Don Moen"
	Dove Awards	Creator - Musical Album of the Year "God with Us"
	Dove Awards	Creator - Musical Album of the Year "Mighty Cross"
	Dove Awards	Creator - Musical of the Year "Emmanuel Has Come"
	Dove Awards	Creator - Musical of the Year "God for Us"
	Dove Awards
	Dove Awards	Country Recorded Song of the Year "God Is Good All The Time"
Dove Awards	Creator - Musical of the Year "God in Us"
	Dove Awards

Gold Certification

1986

*"Give Thanks"

Ray DeVries Church Ministry Award

2002

See also

Christian music

Christian music industry

References

External links

Official site

Don Moen Company

Don Moen at Facebook

Don Moen at MySpace

Don Moen at Twitter

Don Moen channel at YouTube

Don Moen on iLike

Integrity Music Artists - Don Moen

Christian Music Central wiki page

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