The Bible And The Bard: The Gospel According To Shakespeare

F. LaGard Smith (Pepperdine) & John H. Parker (Lipscomb), The Gospel According to Shakespeare: 40 Inspiring Devotionals from the Bible and the Bard (2023):

Daily Devotionals Inspired by Shakespeare

For those who love Shakespeare and Scripture, this is the best of both.
Shakespeare’s writings are filled with classic biblical themes, such as guilt, redemption, sacrifice, forgiveness, and grace. Each chapter in the book is followed by a topical scripture reading and responsive prayer.

For those who seek spiritual insight, this is a mirror to the soul.
The Gospel According to Shakespeare moves the reader from the sheer enjoyment of a good play or sonnet to a personal spiritual journey that allows each of us to take an honest inventory of our moral selves and be called higher.

The Bible and the Bard.

Getting to the Moral of the Story!

F. LaGard Smith was born in 1944 in Houston, Texas, thereafter living in Shawnee and Tulsa, Oklahoma, Lancaster, Texas, and Birmingham, Alabama, before heading off to college at Florida College, graduating from Willamette University with both an undergraduate and law degree. 

Smith was a District Attorney for Malheur County, Oregon for three years, served as an administrator for the Oregon State Bar in Portland for a year, then spent 27 years teaching at Pepperdine University School of Law in Malibu, California, focusing on Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Trial Practice, and Law and Morality.

For five years, Smith was Scholar in Residence for Christian Studies at Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee, then taught for two years at Liberty University School of Law and for four years at Faulkner University's Jones School of Law in Montgomery, Alabama, before retiring to write full time.

Smith has written some 35 books—legal, social, doctrinal, and devotional. He is most widely known as the compiler and narrator of The Daily Bible (the NIV and NLT in chronological order) and Meeting God in Quiet Places. He and his wife Ruth live in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and, for several months a year, at their cottage in the English Cotswolds, near Shakespeare’s birthplace in Stratford-upon-Avon, where he does much of his writing.

John H. Parker served as Professor of English at Lipscomb University, teaching courses in Shakespeare and American literature. He is the author of Abide with Me: A Photographic Journey Through Great British Hymns. John and his wife, Jill, have traveled extensively in Europe and England, often as faculty in Lipscomb’s Study Abroad programs.

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