In this cultural history of evangelical Christianity and popular music, David Stowe demonstrates how mainstream rock of the 1960s and 1970s has influenced conservative evangelical Christianity through the development of Christian pop music. For an earlier
Hanson and the squad of Montagnards slipped past the eastern edge of The Ville, where the local-force militia would be asleep, through the rice paddies that were blanketed with a thin layer of fog, and into the folds of the hills.
In a memoir of friendship that is filled with anecdotes about expat life in Italy, the author presents an irresistible insider account of his relationship with Gore Vidal, a man who prided himself on being difficult to know.
Everywhere we look in this book, we find the generosity and precision of paradox.
Madeline Bean, caterer to the stars, is in the middle of the biggest job of her career.
The official verdict is an accidental overdose, but Cat is convinced that there is something else. Howard Marks has come back to crime, but this time he's writing it, not causing it.
‘We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like, “I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you...
In it, Robinson tells the story of John Ames Boughton, the prodigal son of Gilead’s Presbyterian minister, and his romance with Della Miles, a high school teacher who is also the child of a preacher.
Details the 1895 arrest and trial of a medical student for the grisly murder of two young women inside San Francisco's Emmanuel Baptist Church in what the press of the day characterized as a reenactment of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
Founded as a local college ministry in 1951, Campus Crusade for Christ has become one of the world's largest evangelical organizations, today boasting an annual budget of more than $500 million.
"Longtime San Francisco Chronicle film critic Mick LaSalle's freewheeling journey through several dozen big-screen visions of California"--