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...
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The Midtown Scholar’s Grand-Reopening!
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...
Are you looking for some pre-election (or post-election) reading on religion and politics?
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....
Need Something to Read During Your Self-Quarantine? Check Out Hearts & Minds Bookstore
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...
A Great Night “At” the Midtown Scholar Bookstore
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...
Support Your Independent Bookstore!
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...
Why Used Bookstores are So Satisfying
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...
The Collapse of Evangelicalism’s Cultural Center
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...
Thank You Midtown Scholar Bookstore!
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...
Hearts & Minds Bookstore Selects *Believe Me: The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump* as One of the “Best Books of 2018”
“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...
The Best Christian Bookstore in America
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...
Are You Shopping on Small Business Sunday? Here are Some Great Independent Bookstores
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...
When a Court Evangelical’s Book About Trump Shows-Up at a University Bookstore
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...
Spotted in Barnes and Noble
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:...
Best-Selling Evangelical Book Makes an Appearance on CBS’s “Madame Secretary”
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 10% Off on "The Bible Cause" at Hearts & Minds Books
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...
Bookstore Saturday: Hearts and Minds
I have lived in south-central Pennsylvania for fifteen years and I am embarrassed to say that, until last Saturday, I have never visited Hearts and Minds Bookstore in Dallastown. I know that some of the readers of The Way of...
Otto's Bookstore is For Sale
The Williamsport, PA shop is one of the oldest bookstores in the United States. Founded in 1841. From Publishers Weekly: Otto Bookstore in Williamsport, Pa., one of the oldest continuously operating bookstores in the U.S., is on the market. Owner Betsy...
Image of the Day
Seen yesterday in the Barnes & Noble HISTORY section: