Rev. Dr. James David Cunningham, or just "Jim" as he was known to friends and family, was born in southern California, but at 8 years old his mother, step father and two brothers moved to south Florida. He took up the trumpet from a young age and was part of the Western Star Regimen Band when it achieved its first ever 1st place trophies in "Best Band", "Best Brass Section", and "Best Percussion Section" at the prestigious Deerfield Invitational. Though it had been his intention to study law and run for the local judiciary, he took up world history and religious studies instead, eventually becoming a minister, evangelist, and earned his Doctorate of Divinity with the intent of also earning a Doctorate in Theology before he passed. Jim was a published author of fiction and non-fiction, and a published photographer; he was the editor the 400th Anniversary edition of the King James Bible ("The Word Unchained" edition), as well as being his family's genealogist, creating a family tree with over 500,000 ancestors.
He was the 10th great grandson of Abraham Morrill who emigrated to America in 1632 and helped settle the colony of New Hampshire, and the 10th great grandson of Susannah North Martin who was falsely accused of witchcraft and murdered by hanging in the Salem Witch Trials Hysteria of 1692. Susannah was also the 4th great grandmother of U.S. President Chester A. Arthur, making the president Jim's 6th cousin. In fact, Jim was a cousin of every U.S. president except Woodrow Wilson, though he was a cousin of Wilson's wife. He was also the descendant or cousin of virtually every monarch of England and Scotland, and nearly every monarch and countless noble houses of Europe, as well as several Roman emperors, kings of Israel, and Persian, Egyptian and Mongolian monarchs, and Native American chiefs. He was also related to a great number of celebrities, civil rights leaders, inventors, and other historic figures, including those of African American heritage such as Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Michael Jackson, Beyoncé Knolls, Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, Quincy Jones, Samuel L. Jackson, Whitney Houston, Dionne Warwick, Spike Lee, Lionel Richie, Bill Cosby, WEB Du Bois, Alicia Keys, Halle Berry, Lena Horne, John Legend, and Doria Ragland (mother of Princess Meghan Markle Duchess of Sussex).
Jim fought ceaselessly for the protection of Human Rights, and against bigotry and homophobia among Christians, being best known for his conservative outreach ministry, Gay Christian Survivors, and his book by the same name.
From 2009 to 2017 Jim served as Historian and manager of the Whydah Pirate Museum, a National Geographic Society special event exhibit featuring the artifacts and treasures of the Whydah Galley, the world's first fully authenticated pirate shipwreck. He was also an amateur jeweler.
In 2005 Jim was diagnosed a rare, incurable sarcoma (cancer), but the tumor was removed. However, in 2014 in returned with a vengeance, having metastasized throughout his abdominal organs with so many tumors that the oncologists of Harvard's Beth Israel Hospital declared them "innumerable". This time they were also inoperable. A chemo therapy pill, Gleevec, taken daily, at a cost of over $10,000 a month, would keep the tumors from growing for as long as his body could tolerate the drug. Jim lived under the constant threat of murder by Republicans in Congress through depriving him of his chemotherapy by taking away his medical insurance in their relentless demonically-possessed fight to destroy the "Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act" (known derogatorily as 'Obamacare').
He was the 10th great grandson of Abraham Morrill who emigrated to America in 1632 and helped settle the colony of New Hampshire, and the 10th great grandson of Susannah North Martin who was falsely accused of witchcraft and murdered by hanging in the Salem Witch Trials Hysteria of 1692. Susannah was also the 4th great grandmother of U.S. President Chester A. Arthur, making the president Jim's 6th cousin. In fact, Jim was a cousin of every U.S. president except Woodrow Wilson, though he was a cousin of Wilson's wife. He was also the descendant or cousin of virtually every monarch of England and Scotland, and nearly every monarch and countless noble houses of Europe, as well as several Roman emperors, kings of Israel, and Persian, Egyptian and Mongolian monarchs, and Native American chiefs. He was also related to a great number of celebrities, civil rights leaders, inventors, and other historic figures, including those of African American heritage such as Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Michael Jackson, Beyoncé Knolls, Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, Quincy Jones, Samuel L. Jackson, Whitney Houston, Dionne Warwick, Spike Lee, Lionel Richie, Bill Cosby, WEB Du Bois, Alicia Keys, Halle Berry, Lena Horne, John Legend, and Doria Ragland (mother of Princess Meghan Markle Duchess of Sussex).
Jim fought ceaselessly for the protection of Human Rights, and against bigotry and homophobia among Christians, being best known for his conservative outreach ministry, Gay Christian Survivors, and his book by the same name.
From 2009 to 2017 Jim served as Historian and manager of the Whydah Pirate Museum, a National Geographic Society special event exhibit featuring the artifacts and treasures of the Whydah Galley, the world's first fully authenticated pirate shipwreck. He was also an amateur jeweler.
In 2005 Jim was diagnosed a rare, incurable sarcoma (cancer), but the tumor was removed. However, in 2014 in returned with a vengeance, having metastasized throughout his abdominal organs with so many tumors that the oncologists of Harvard's Beth Israel Hospital declared them "innumerable". This time they were also inoperable. A chemo therapy pill, Gleevec, taken daily, at a cost of over $10,000 a month, would keep the tumors from growing for as long as his body could tolerate the drug. Jim lived under the constant threat of murder by Republicans in Congress through depriving him of his chemotherapy by taking away his medical insurance in their relentless demonically-possessed fight to destroy the "Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act" (known derogatorily as 'Obamacare').
Rev. Dr. James David Cunningham, or just "Jim" as he was known to friends and family, was born in southern California, but at 8 years old his mother, step father and two brothers moved to south Florida. He took up the trumpet from a young age and was part of the Western Star Regimen Band when it achieved its first ever 1st place trophies in "Best Band", "Best Brass Section", and "Best Percussion Section" at the prestigious Deerfield Invitational. Though it had been his intention to study law and run for the local judiciary, he took up world history and religious studies instead, eventually becoming a minister, evangelist, and earned his Doctorate of Divinity with the intent of also earning a Doctorate in Theology before he passed. Jim was a published author of fiction and non-fiction, and a published photographer; he was the editor the 400th Anniversary edition of the King James Bible ("The Word Unchained" edition), as well as being his family's genealogist, creating a family tree with over 500,000 ancestors.
He was the 10th great grandson of Abraham Morrill who emigrated to America in 1632 and helped settle the colony of New Hampshire, and the 10th great grandson of Susannah North Martin who was falsely accused of witchcraft and murdered by hanging in the Salem Witch Trials Hysteria of 1692. Susannah was also the 4th great grandmother of U.S. President Chester A. Arthur, making the president Jim's 6th cousin. In fact, Jim was a cousin of every U.S. president except Woodrow Wilson, though he was a cousin of Wilson's wife. He was also the descendant or cousin of virtually every monarch of England and Scotland, and nearly every monarch and countless noble houses of Europe, as well as several Roman emperors, kings of Israel, and Persian, Egyptian and Mongolian monarchs, and Native American chiefs. He was also related to a great number of celebrities, civil rights leaders, inventors, and other historic figures, including those of African American heritage such as Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Michael Jackson, Beyoncé Knolls, Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, Quincy Jones, Samuel L. Jackson, Whitney Houston, Dionne Warwick, Spike Lee, Lionel Richie, Bill Cosby, WEB Du Bois, Alicia Keys, Halle Berry, Lena Horne, John Legend, and Doria Ragland (mother of Princess Meghan Markle Duchess of Sussex).
Jim fought ceaselessly for the protection of Human Rights, and against bigotry and homophobia among Christians, being best known for his conservative outreach ministry, Gay Christian Survivors, and his book by the same name.
From 2009 to 2017 Jim served as Historian and manager of the Whydah Pirate Museum, a National Geographic Society special event exhibit featuring the artifacts and treasures of the Whydah Galley, the world's first fully authenticated pirate shipwreck. He was also an amateur jeweler.
In 2005 Jim was diagnosed a rare, incurable sarcoma (cancer), but the tumor was removed. However, in 2014 in returned with a vengeance, having metastasized throughout his abdominal organs with so many tumors that the oncologists of Harvard's Beth Israel Hospital declared them "innumerable". This time they were also inoperable. A chemo therapy pill, Gleevec, taken daily, at a cost of over $10,000 a month, would keep the tumors from growing for as long as his body could tolerate the drug. Jim lived under the constant threat of murder by Republicans in Congress through depriving him of his chemotherapy by taking away his medical insurance in their relentless demonically-possessed fight to destroy the "Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act" (known derogatorily as 'Obamacare').
He was the 10th great grandson of Abraham Morrill who emigrated to America in 1632 and helped settle the colony of New Hampshire, and the 10th great grandson of Susannah North Martin who was falsely accused of witchcraft and murdered by hanging in the Salem Witch Trials Hysteria of 1692. Susannah was also the 4th great grandmother of U.S. President Chester A. Arthur, making the president Jim's 6th cousin. In fact, Jim was a cousin of every U.S. president except Woodrow Wilson, though he was a cousin of Wilson's wife. He was also the descendant or cousin of virtually every monarch of England and Scotland, and nearly every monarch and countless noble houses of Europe, as well as several Roman emperors, kings of Israel, and Persian, Egyptian and Mongolian monarchs, and Native American chiefs. He was also related to a great number of celebrities, civil rights leaders, inventors, and other historic figures, including those of African American heritage such as Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Michael Jackson, Beyoncé Knolls, Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, Quincy Jones, Samuel L. Jackson, Whitney Houston, Dionne Warwick, Spike Lee, Lionel Richie, Bill Cosby, WEB Du Bois, Alicia Keys, Halle Berry, Lena Horne, John Legend, and Doria Ragland (mother of Princess Meghan Markle Duchess of Sussex).
Jim fought ceaselessly for the protection of Human Rights, and against bigotry and homophobia among Christians, being best known for his conservative outreach ministry, Gay Christian Survivors, and his book by the same name.
From 2009 to 2017 Jim served as Historian and manager of the Whydah Pirate Museum, a National Geographic Society special event exhibit featuring the artifacts and treasures of the Whydah Galley, the world's first fully authenticated pirate shipwreck. He was also an amateur jeweler.
In 2005 Jim was diagnosed a rare, incurable sarcoma (cancer), but the tumor was removed. However, in 2014 in returned with a vengeance, having metastasized throughout his abdominal organs with so many tumors that the oncologists of Harvard's Beth Israel Hospital declared them "innumerable". This time they were also inoperable. A chemo therapy pill, Gleevec, taken daily, at a cost of over $10,000 a month, would keep the tumors from growing for as long as his body could tolerate the drug. Jim lived under the constant threat of murder by Republicans in Congress through depriving him of his chemotherapy by taking away his medical insurance in their relentless demonically-possessed fight to destroy the "Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act" (known derogatorily as 'Obamacare').
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