History, Real Life and Faith
What are a biographer/novelist’s favorite books in 2017? Here’s a list. For the first time, I participated in the Goodreads Challenge and read more than twice as many books as my goal. If you’d like to follow me on Goodreads and see the whole list, click here. Meanwhile, here’s what I enjoyed the most. Family-related stories I have a large…
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What are a biographer/novelist’s favorite books in 2017? Here’s a list. For the first time, I participated in the Goodreads Challenge and read more than twice as many books as my goal. If you’d like to follow me on Goodreads and see the whole list, click here. Meanwhile, here’s what I enjoyed the most. Family-related stories I have a large…
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What was the inspiration behind Mrs. Oswald Chambers? asked many interviewers. It’s a fair question. Why would I spend two years of my life researching and writing about a woman who died in 1966? I never met her. I’d never heard of her until 2012. What was it about Biddy Chambers that intrigued me so? First inspiration: Abandoned to God It…
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I’ve been buying kid books for Christmas this year. (Actually, I buy kid books every year for Christmas.) Since none of the recipients read this blog (indeed, several can’t read), I feel safe talking about them here. Besides, I’m not going to tell you who is getting what. Preschool boy He’s a rough and tumbling kid who loves to move…
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The London Blitz provided the utmost opportunity for Biddy Chambers to demonstrate resilience. I’ve written before about what happened on December 29, 1940 here. All 40,000 copies of Oswald Chambers-authored books burned in the warehouses surrounding St. Paul’s Cathedral. As did 1,000,000 others books in what one magazine described as “the crematorium of England‘s books.” The fledgling Oswald Chambers Publishing…
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The London Blitz provided the utmost opportunity for Biddy Chambers to demonstrate resilience. I’ve written before about what happened on December 29, 1940 here. All 40,000 copies of Oswald Chambers-authored books burned in the warehouses surrounding St. Paul’s Cathedral. As did 1,000,000 others books in what one magazine described as “the crematorium of England‘s books.” The fledgling Oswald Chambers Publishing…
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