Mccall Barbour

Ordered tracts from there great service!. Wish l could go personally, l live in Scotland.???? GOD has kept this shop open through the so called "pandemic" .???? ♥️????????

I seemed to have a slightly different experience from Robert.
When I visited Mccall Barbours book shop, I was not confronted with much variation in genre, but an overwhelming number of titles trying to convince me of impending Armageddon, that humanists are all evil, or that Jesus’ oddly caucasion shiny white face will be literally returning soon.
This Christian book shop seems to specialise in cheaply published evangelical books that mostly certain around the theme of the end of the world, sinners, and sinners at the end of the world. I wouldn’t have a problem with a Christian book shop covering some of this unfortunate aspect of Christian culture, but do we need so much? Especially when so much of it is the same, and from what I read, badly written? This stuff is a satire of itself.
Admitedly there are the usual range of Bible publications that you would expect, and if you want to choose from a wide selection this probably isn’t a bad place.
I didn’t find many deep analyses of medieval theologians, or books on the metaphysics of religion, so there wasn’t much for me. I’m not really interested in the overwhelming amount of evangelical writings that seem to only appeal to the already converted. I think the problem with this place is that it doesn’t have much appeal to the non-​Christian, but neither does it appeal to a range of Christian denominations either.
Perhaps I went in on a day when the owner was feeling grumpy and spiteful and intentionally laid out books to try and (literally) frighten the hell out of me. Maybe next time I will find a more stimulating range.

This is a rather strange shop in that you access it by heading up a staircase wedged between the two adjacent shops up to an upstairs shop. The shop itself specialises in Christian Literature so if this is not your thing then this is probably not your type of shop.
The books it does stock do cover a reasonable range from Bible Study books to lifestyle guides with a few more extreme books littered around warning of the coming apocalypse, but these may be forgiven for they only appear to be here because the owners are determined to cover every possible genre they could think of. Generally, you cannot fault it because it does very admirably cover the whole range with no subject too unimportant or omitted. If Christian Literature is what you are after then this is your shop, but if not it won’t be. I assume more people fall into the latter category hence the 3 stars despite this shop being very good at what it does.