Dolly Parton grew up with a devoutly religious mother and a grandfather who was a preacher. He was the inspiration for her song, “Daddy Was an Old Time Preacher Man,” and he really did preach “hell so ...

Dolly Parton grew up in a very religious family under the guidance of her evangelist grandfather, Reverend Jake Owens. The Queen of Country and her siblings spent a lot of time singing in their ...

One evening in February 1942 Harper & Brothers’ Board Chairman Henry Hoyns tuned in on We, the People, heard the easygoing drawl of a preacher recounting his experiences in the Ozark Mountains. The ...

What manner of man is the U. S. preacher? He may be Liberal, Moderate or Fundamentalist, poet, teacher or mystic. He is less the scholar-theologian than his brothers in England and Scotland; more the ...