It was like the devil's nine truths and a lie that he'd heard country preachers talk about when he was a boy.

For this genteel poverty, he blamed his father, a feckless country preacher and the memoir's emotional center.

His older brother Daniel Parker became a famous country preacher.

He looked strangely like a country preacher.

Dr. Bishop was born in 1936, the son of a country preacher in Pennsylvania.

Jay grew up in East Texas, the son of a country preacher.

I began to doubt many of the narrow doctrines taught by the country preachers of that day.

It was falling out of use these days, but the son of a country preacher hadn't yet found that out.

This book attempts redress for at least one of them, John Bois, a country preacher whose notes are rendered here.

"They despise some of us rednecked country preachers and don't want to include us in that."