Thom Hickling, an offbeat evangelical who influenced the Christian community in Pittsburgh through his creation of Expression newspaper and the His Place television show, died in a car crash in Zambia.
Mr. Hickling, his daughter, and another worker from the refugee camp were on a two-lane highway when they were struck head-on by another vehicle. The first news his family heard of it was when his former wife, Cathy, received a phone call from a passer-by who said he had found "a dead white man in a car registered to Holly Hickling." The U.S. State Department helped them confirm that the dead man was Mr. Hickling, and to locate Holly in a hospital, Cathy Hickling said.
During their 20-year marriage, the Hicklings introduced Pittsburgh to contemporary Christian music through their singing and through his father's radio station. They ran Expression, a Christian newspaper that crossed many denominational and cultural lines, and they co-created His Place, a ground-breaking Christian talk show that was also part soap opera.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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