In a rented room, somewhere in the black mountain hills of Dakota, Rocky Raccoon found solace on his nightstand. At least that’s how Paul McCartney sang the sad tale of a jilted guy who’d just lost a ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Long before cable television, spa treatments and eco-friendly soaps and shampoos became staples in hotel rooms, there was the Bible - the Gideon Bible. And the book with the ...

BOONEVILLE • Open the top drawer of any hotel nightstand and you’re almost sure to find a Gideon Bible — its corner gold-stamped with the iconic two-handled lamp made famous in the Old Testament story ...

The Gideons themselves are as discreet as their Bibles are ubiquitous. "When we make a distribution, it's not broadcast all over the news," Dan Siek told the Casper Rotary Club on Monday. "We don't ...

If you're staying at the Hotel Preston, you can get a copy of the ancient Hindu text for your room from a "spiritual menu" that includes the Quran, the Bible and other religious texts. Provenance ...

Why is there a Gideon Bible in almost every hotel or motel room? That’s easy: Because the Gideons put them there. The books are given to hotels and motels by Gideon International, a Christian ...

Ironically, the Gideons are welcome to distribute Bibles and deliver speeches in Russian schools. Sasser said it was outrageous that the school would call out the police for a group that had ...

Torrential rain may have forced the cancellation of Thursday night’s gathering at Palo Duro Canyon State Park, but it didn’t dampen the enthusiasm of the Gideons of Texas. About 60 speakers, including ...

SUMMIT COUNTY – Questions about the separation of church and state surfaced this month in Summit County when members of Gideons International were allowed to set up tables offering free Bibles in the ...

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) – Penn State has pulled Gideon Bibles from rooms of two hotels it runs and will, instead, make them available upon request in public access ...

A Gideon, Bailey must have been aware of the doings at the recent Gideon convention in Louisville, Ky. The Gideons had been founded nine years earlier in Wisconsin by a couple of traveling salesmen - ...

(RNS) — A $60 ‘God Bless the USA’ Bible to help pay off Trump’s legal fees is evangelicalism’s inevitable culmination. (RNS) — For me, the ideal Bible is the Gideon Bible. I’m not talking about the ...