Ben Haden, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American television evangelist
Date of Birth: 18-Oct-1925
Place of Birth: Fincastle, Tennessee, United States
Date of Death: 24-Oct-2013
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Libra 
About Ben Haden
- Ben Haden (October 18, 1925 – October 24, 2013) was an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church in America.
- He became internationally known through the religious broadcast, Changed Lives.
- Originating from the services of the First Presbyterian Church in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Haden's pulpit approach was sometimes described as arguing a case before a jury.
- With his background in the CIA and as CEO for a daily newspaper, Haden was also the speaker on the Radio Bible Study Hour, succeeding Donald Grey Barnhouse of Tenth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia.
- Haden was an atheist until he became a Christian in 1954.Haden was born in Fincastle, Virginia, in 1925.
- He received his law degree from Washington and Lee College in 1949 and became a member of the Virginia bar.
- He also studied at the University of Texas at Austin and Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia.
- Haden pastored Key Biscayne Presbyterian Church in Miami, Florida before moving to become the 11th pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Chattanooga, Tennessee in 1968.
- Haden followed James L.
- Fowle.
- Haden served the church in Chattanooga for 31 years before resigning in 1998 to pursue Changed Lives.org, an internet streaming video and audio on-demand ministry.
- This ministry produces "conversations", talks lasting from five to fifteen minutes and done in a conversational tone.
- He emphasizes that these productions are not sermons, but are simple conversations.
- This supports one of aims of Changed Lives, which is to reach the many Americans who claim to be Christians yet do not have a home church. In 1963, while attending Columbia Theological Seminary, Haden published a non-fiction account of the people he met during his travels as a newspaperman in the Soviet Union, I See Their Faces.
- He died in Chattanooga on October 24, 2013.
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