The Believers Who Built America: 25 Untold Stories of Faith That Shaped a Nation

The story of America is incomplete without the stories of the believers who helped build it.In January 1776, a pastor in Virginia stepped into his pulpit, preached a sermon on Ecclesiastes, and then threw off his clerical robes to reveal a Continental Army uniform underneath. Three hundred men enlisted that morning. He went on to fight beside Washington at Valley Forge and Yorktown.His name was Peter Muhlenberg. Most Americans have never heard of him.In The Believers Who Built America, Paul Lindquist tells 25 such stories, one from every decade between the Revolution and the present day. The blind hymn-writer who published under two hundred pen names because no one could believe one woman wrote so many. The Black freedman who sailed to Africa to plant the seeds of a free Christian nation. The Tuskegee scientist who refused six-figure offers from Edison so he could keep teaching poor Southern farmers. The country revivalist whose tent meeting in Charlotte led a teenage Billy Graham to Christ. The college student who refused to leave a chapel service in 2023 and accidentally helped launch a national revival. The campus evangelist gunned down at age 31, whose final morning began with the King James Bible open at his dining-room table.Each chapter follows the Paul Harvey "Rest of the Story" tradition: a cinematic opening, a backstory you may not know, a faith awakening, a great work, and a closing twist that reveals what God was really doing all along. Each chapter closes with "Others Who Carried the Torch" — short profiles of the lesser-known believers who quietly shaped the same decade.Released for America's 250th anniversary, this is the patriotic Christian history every believer should read and pass along to the next generation.God has never abandoned America. He has always raised up witnesses. These are their stories. Read more