The Reason for God. Catherine Marshall – author of "Christy" and "A Man Called Peter" John Ortberg – Senior pastor of Menlo Park Presbyterian Church, author of If You Want to Walk on Water, You've Got to Get Out of the Boat. Robert Louis Stevenson – wrote on religious matters at times Thomas Vincent Andrew Young – poet and botanical writer (later an Anglican priest) Frederick Buechner – novelist, theologian, and minister Horatius Bonar – minister in the Free Church of Scotland and a poet Alexander Campbell Cheyne – Scottish ecclesiastical historian Henry Drummond – Free Church of Scotland writer George Adam Smith – books concerning the Bible Francis Schaeffer Quaker Bathsheba Bowers Esther G. Frame Sally Nicholls Eric Knight William Cooper Reformed Nicolaas Beets – novelist and poet Corrie ten Boom – memoirist Edward Tanjore Corwin – history writing James Isaac Good – history writing Martha Hooper Blackler Kalopothakes – missionary, journalist, translator Andrew Murray – religious and inspirational writing United Protestant Ralph Connor – Canadian clergyman and bestselling novelist Other Edith Jessie Archibald – suffragist and writer Ethel Barrett – Christian author and children's author Mary Charlotte Ward Granniss Webster Billings – writer, activist, hymn writer, evangelist, missionary Ted Dekker – bestselling novelist Henry Grattan Guinness Jerry B. Jenkins – co-author of the Left Behind books and Gil Thorp comics Hal Lindsey – end-times author Josh McDowell – Christian writer Ra'ouf Mus'ad – Protestant playwright of Coptic ancestry J. Dwight Pentecost Geraldine Taylor Hudson Taylor Phyllis Wheatley (1753–died c. 1784) – former slave and poet from Boston, Massachusetts and Senegal, Africa References Protestants Authors Authors