A MAN SPOKE , A WORLD LISTENED (The story of Walter A. Maier and the Lutheran Hour }

by Paul L. Maier

1963 TOBIAS COMMUNICATIONS SOFTCOVER

Genres: Biography

411 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1980

About the author

Paul L. Maier was an American historian and novelist. He wrote several works of scholarly and popular non-fiction about Christianity and novels about Christian historians. He was the Russell H. Seibert Professor of Ancient History at Western Michigan University, from which he retired in 2011, retaining the title of professor emeritus in the Department of History. He previously served as Third Vice President of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod.

Reviews

[Bethany · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a fantastic read for the first half. I didn’t know much about WAM until this book, and Paul Maier is a born storyteller.

Where it fell apart for me is when Paul started in on the statistics, countries reached, and the repeated reference to a “congregation of millions.” (Mostly because that’s not how congregations work in the LCMS. A radio audience isn’t precisely a congregation. But I suppose that’s nitpicking.) Either way, the storytelling started falling off and the book lost momentum for the last half or so.