Daniel Silliman Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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News editor for Christianity Today, author of Reading Evangelicals, and writing a religious bio of Nixon. Doctorate from Uni Heidelberg. I tweet religion news.

Of Fire and Ash: Volume 1
Gillian Bronte Adams
The Realm Awards, for the best Christian fantasy fiction, were awarded this weekend. Book of the year: Of Fire and Ash by Gillian Bronte Adams Readers choice: Shadow by Kara Swanson https://t.co/l8cKVP4nHV
Paperback, 2022
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The Hiding Place
Corrie Ten Boom
“I think true stories are just more exciting and more usual and more amazing,” said Elizabeth Sherrill, who coauthored “The Hiding Place" and “The Cross and the Switchblade” She has died at 95. And the true story of her life is definitely all those things https://t.co/iuz7o87BWj
Paperback, 2006
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The Cross and the Switchblade: The True Story of One Man's Fearless Faith
David Wilkerson
“I think true stories are just more exciting and more usual and more amazing,” said Elizabeth Sherrill, who coauthored “The Hiding Place" and “The Cross and the Switchblade” She has died at 95. And the true story of her life is definitely all those things https://t.co/iuz7o87BWj
Paperback, 2018
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My Big TOE - Awakening S: Book 1 of a Trilogy Unifying of Philosophy, Physics, and Metaphysics
Thomas Campbell
The only publicly viewable display of Thomas Campbell's Declaration and Address, a pivotal Second Great Awakening document that proclaimed everyone equal before the Bible, goes on display in Texas https://t.co/RukpbUUjZL
Paperback, 2003
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Woodrow Wilson: A Biography
John Milton Cooper
John Milton Cooper, Jr., _Woodrow Wilson: A Biography_, page 57
Paperback, 2011
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Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
Tim Weiner
@Mepaynl The Frank Church Committee was the closest to something like this. Check out Tim Weiner's Legacy of Ashes.
Paperback, 2008
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Cotton Mather's Spanish Lessons: A Story of Language, Race, and Belonging in the Early Americas
Kirsten Silva Gruesz
@paulrfoth @BrantleyGasaway A few I liked recently: A History of Contemporary Praise & Worship, by Lester Ruth and Lim Swee Hong; Cotton Mather's Spanish Lessons, by Kristen Silva Gruez; An Odd Cross to Bear, by Ann Blue Willis. I want to read Uta Balbier's Atlar Call in Europe, too.
Hardcover, 2022
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The book of martyrs: or, the history of the Church, from the beginning of Christianity, to the conclusion of the reign of Q. Mary I. Extrac
John Foxe
@RyanNDanker Colleague of mine wrote a fascinating dissertation on the publishing history of the Book of Martyrs in America: _John Foxe in America_ by Heike Jablonski.
Paperback, 2010
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A History of Contemporary Praise & Worship: Understanding the Ideas That Reshaped the Protestant Church
Lester Ruth
@paulrfoth @BrantleyGasaway A few I liked recently: A History of Contemporary Praise & Worship, by Lester Ruth and Lim Swee Hong; Cotton Mather's Spanish Lessons, by Kristen Silva Gruez; An Odd Cross to Bear, by Ann Blue Willis. I want to read Uta Balbier's Atlar Call in Europe, too.
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All Too Human: A Political Education
George Stephanopoulos
@ChrisSchaef Just checked: In All Too Human, by George Stephanopoulos, he says that when he moved into his WH office it had four TVs as part of the office furniture. p. 199
Paperback, 2007
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