History, Real Life and Faith
A Madeleine L’Engle letter astonished me in 2013 at Wheaton College. I had traveled to Wheaton College’s Special Collections Library to research Oswald Chambers. While I waited for the archivist, I noticed a table full of pamphlets detailing other writers whose manuscripts and letters also were in the collection. Wheaton has quite a selection: Francis and Edith Schaeffer, C. Everett Koop,…
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I don’t know, exactly, when I first got a copy of Oswald Chambers’ My Utmost for His Highest. It’s a paperback, and I’m pretty sure it cost $5. I don’t think I bought it, though. I think someone gave to me, or perhaps to my Sunday School teacher husband. But about 12 years ago I picked it up and started to use it…
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I don’t know, exactly, when I first got a copy of Oswald Chambers’ My Utmost for His Highest. It’s a paperback, and I’m pretty sure it cost $5. I don’t think I bought it, though. I think someone gave to me, or perhaps to my Sunday School teacher husband. But about 12 years ago I picked it up and started to use it…
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What makes a writer set a story in a place like Texas? The enormity of possibilities! Countless writers have written about the state from the sprawling Texas by James Michener, to the nine novellas in The Texas Brides Collection. The seven writers in this collection have a variety of links to the state, from Old Three Hundred descendant Kathleen Y’Barbo, through…
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What makes a writer set a story in a place like Texas? The enormity of possibilities! Countless writers have written about the state from the sprawling Texas by James Michener, to the nine novellas in The Texas Brides Collection. The seven writers in this collection have a variety of links to the state, from Old Three Hundred descendant Kathleen Y’Barbo, through…
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Texas brides and romance? You bet! Nine of Barbour’s favorite historical fiction novella writers have collaborated on a romance collection with an emphasis on Texas. As the descendent of Texas pioneers, I’ve written a story to include one of my ancestors. The Hanks family of Texas My great-great-great-grandfather, Reverend Thomas Hanks lived in Tennessee in the early part of the…
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