This book contains little about Donald Trump's personal faith and worldview. The author, Stephen Strang, believes there's not much to say on the topic: "My aim in taking on this project has not been to write Donald Trump's spiritual biography—that would have been a...
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Book Review: Bible Nation (Candida Moss and Joel Baden)
Bible Nation: The United States of Hobby Lobby tells the story of the Green Family, their company (Hobby Lobby), and their Museum of the Bible. The authors set themselves an admirable goal: Though their perspectives are quite different than the Green family, they...
Book Review: America’s Pastor (Grant Wacker)
Some biographies have the energy and immediacy of a radio broadcaster's play-by-play. America's Pastor: Billy Graham and the Shaping of a Nation has the measured, thoughtful analysis of an end-of-year magazine analysis. Dialogue and narrative tension never speed the...
Book Review: Calvin Coolidge (David Greenberg)
David Greenberg's Calvin Coolidge is a short, approachable biography that strikes an almost perfect balance between rigorous scholarship and readability. The main narrative runs only 159 pages, showing a brevity appropriate for its taciturn subject. Of ten chapters,...
G.A. Henty and the Christian Worldview (Condensed)
This article was originally published in Home School Digest, Volume 18, Number 3. At the time it was published, around seven years ago, several publishers and distributors were actively marketing Henty's books to homeschooling parents as safe, educational books for...
G.A. Henty and the Christian Worldview (Full)
This article was originally published in Home School Digest, Volume 18, Number 3. At the time it was published, around seven years ago, several publishers and distributors were actively marketing Henty's books to homeschooling parents as safe, educational books for...
10 Books That Changed My Mind
It is easy to only read books for entertainment, and books that reinforce our current views. It is more of a challenge to read books we don't anticipate agreeing with, because once in a while, a well-presented case can change our minds. So I came up with a challenge...
Book Review: Healing in God’s Time (Donna Clark Goodrich)
Even though he spent several years in the Speer Family band, Dave Clark is one of those names you might not know unless you read album credits. But if you do read album credits, you know that—even if he's primarily known for over twenty #1 CCM hits—the list of...
Book Review: Then Sings My Soul (Douglas Harrison)
Then Sings My Soul: The Culture of Southern Gospel Music is an academic analysis of Southern Gospel history and culture. Its author, Doug Harrison, describes himself as a former Evangelical Christian, an Associate Professor of English at Florida Gulf Coast University,...
Book Review: Then Sings My Soul, Book 3 (Robert J. Morgan)
(Editorial note: No, this is not the review of Doug Harrison's upcoming and already controversial book by the same name. That review is scheduled for May 4th. Yes, there are two books on Christian music with the same title and published in the same twelve month...
Book Review: The Practice of the Bible in the Middle Ages
In the tradition of Singing News's long-running book review column, a fixture until their office moved to Nashville, SouthernGospelBlog.com will periodically feature Sunday afternoon book and film reviews. So that the home page can remain focused on Southern Gospel...
Book Review: Our Final Quarter (Dave, Duane & Neil)
Our Final Quarter is the joint autobiography of Dave Kyllonen, Duane Nicholson, and Neil Enloe. From the 1957 through 1980, they traveled together as the Couriers. Tenor Duane Nicholson and Neil Enloe traveled together at various points since, eventually handing the...