A friend spotted Believe Me: The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump in Budapest. As many of you know, prime minister Viktor Orbán is trying to build a Christian nationalist state in Hungary modeled closely on a kind of Trumpian populism....
Congratulations! Learn more here. Midtown Scholars Bookstores co-owners and founders Catherine Lawrence and Eric Papenfuse talk about the origins of the store. Here is our coverage of the finalists. In the video above, Lawrence and Papenfuse discuss their move to...
They are: Edmunds Bookshop in Edmunds, Washington Harvey’s Tales in Geneva, Illinois. Interabang Books in Dallas, Texas Main Street Books in Lafayette, Indiana And (drumroll please): MIDTOWN SCHOLAR BOOKSTORE in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania! We had our book launch for Believe Me:...
His name was Tom Verlaine, the guitarist and lead singer of the 1970s band Television. Here is a taste of Colin Groundwater‘s piece at LitHub: If you swung by the carts that line the Strand’s exterior, where all the books...
If you read this blog, you know Byron Borger. He and his wife Beth run the Hearts & Minds bookstore in Dallastown, Pennsylvania, the best Christian bookstore in the country. Over at Christianity Today, Borger reviews Jeff Deutsch’s book In...
I am very excited about this weekend’s re-opening of the Midtown Scholar Bookstore in Harrisburg! Back in April 2020, I joined Katherine Stewart, author of The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism, for the bookstore’s first pandemic...
Election Day is a week away, but the subject of religion and politics is not going away anytime soon. Now is the time to contact Byron Borger of Hearts & Minds Books so you are prepared for the post-election reality....
Please consider Byron and Beth Borger at Hearts & Minds Bookstore for all of your reading needs during the coronavirus outbreak and beyond. Hearts & Minds is especially strong in theology, biblical studies, church history, and Christian perspectives on social...
Here is a taste of Yaasmeen Piper’s piece at The Burg: However, that didn’t stop Midtown Scholar Bookstore from bringing its famous book talks to the community. They just had to get a bit more creative. On Wednesday evening, Midtown Scholar...
Many of them have closed their shops amid the coronavirus pandemic, but they are still selling online. Many of these stores, like Hearts & Minds Bookstore in Dallastown, are doing curbside delivery. Here is The New York Times: A growing...
Over at Literary Hub, Kelsey Rexroat offers some great advice on how to shop at a used bookstore. Here is a taste: Summer is a good season for bookstores. As the weather warms, more foot traffic passes by on the...
Over at Slate, Ruth Graham writes about the decline of the Christian bookstore. Here is a taste of her piece: The Christian publishing industry, and its distribution arm in Christian bookstores, plays a central role within evangelical culture, even for...
We launched the Believe Me book tour on June 30, 2018 at the Midtown Scholar Bookstore in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Some of you were there. Thanks again for coming. The other night I was back at the Midtown Scholar as a customer. It...
“I am declaring Believe Me as one of the most important books to be published in 2018 and predicting that it will remain one of the most important books for many a year.” Thank you Byron Borger! I am happy to join...
I had some last minute Christmas shopping to do on December 24, 2018 so I drove down to Dallastown, Pennsylvania (about a 40-minute drive) to visit Byron and Beth Borger at Hearts & Minds Bookstore. Beth was not around on...
All of these stores hosted the Believe Me book tour: Hearts & Minds, Dallastown, PA Midtown Scholar, Harrisburg, PA Politics and Prose, Washington, D.C. Penguin Bookshop, Sewickley, PA The Book Loft, Columbus, OH Carmichael’s, Louisville, KY Taylor Books, Charleston, WV Givens...
I was in the Duquesne University bookstore last weekend. They had one book on religion and Donald Trump. A court evangelical wrote it. I took a picture: If you have never heard of this book, I write about it in...
A blog reader sends this from the DePaul University Loop Campus Bookstore in Chicago: My daughter found these in the “Eastern Religions” section of the B&N in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania:...
Byron Borger, the proprietor of Hearts and Minds Books in Dallastown, Pennsylvania, got a screen shot of Tea Leoni’s character, the Secretary of State in the CBS show “Madame Secretary,” placing a copy of David Platt’s Radical: Taking Back Your Faith...
Get a copy of The Bible Cause: A History of the American Bible Society at 10% off and support an independent brick and mortar bookstore in Dallastown, Pennsylvania. (You may recall that I visited Hearts & Minds Bookstore last month). Here...
