Churchill's Providential Confidence

Britain has had its share of politicians and statesmen who have been "vocal about their faith," from the earnest, evangelical William Wilberforce (with his noble, indefatigable, and ultimately successful fight against slavery and the slave trade) to the tough-minded Methodist Margaret Thatcher, to the rather progressive Catholic convert Tony Blair. As the intellectual historian Gary Scott Smith shows in his welcome new book Duty and Destiny: The Life and Faith of Winston Churchill, Churchill is not among them.