President Donald Trump was raised under the influence of the Rev. Norman Vincent Peale, who coined the famous doctrine of “the power of positive thinking.” “I know that with God’s help,” Peale once ...

Mitch Horowitz is the author of “Occult America” and “One Simple Idea,” a history of the positive-thinking movement. On a fall morning in 1960, the Rev. Norman Vincent Peale stood before his ...

Norman Vincent Peale came to national attention in the 1930s by railing against communism from his pulpit at the Marble Collegiate Church in New York City, where he would go on to serve for half a ...

(RNS) — His vision is echoed in the mystical certainties of figures like Oprah Winfrey. Even the Trump presidency is confirmation that our country is now Peale’s America. (RNS) — If Americans ever ...

Contact this contributing writer at [email protected]. On May 31, 1898, a boy was born in Bowersville, Greene County. As an adult he became a prominent religious leader. He produced numerous ...

Donald Trump at Liberty University, a Christian school in Lynchburg, Va., on Jan. 18. The mogul, who has been warmly received by evangelicals, cites the late Norman Vincent Peale as his spiritual ...