James Fenimore Cooper and the Bible
Webb Garrison in Strange Facts About the Bible, notes the influence the Bible on one important American author: “James Fenimore Cooper, author of the famous Leatherstocking series that constituted the first cycle of successful novels about the American frontier, had...
An English Historian and the Bible
George M. Trevelyan notes in his History of England: “But though Shakespeare may be in the retrospect the greatest glory of his age, he was not in his own day its greatest influence. By the end of Elizabeth’s reign, the book of books for Englishmen was already the...
The Two Great Influences on the English Language
Oxford professor, Alister McGrath, has written In the Beginning: The Story of the King James Bible and How It Changed a Nation, a Language, and a Culture. In it he writes: “The two greatest influences on the shaping of the English language are the works of William...
President Lincoln and the Bible
The devout Quaker, professor of philosophy and insightful thinker, the late Dr. David Elton Trueblood, wrote a book entitled: Abraham Lincoln: Theologian of American Anguish in which he reflected upon the role of religion in Lincoln’s life. (Chuck Colson, after...


