History, Real Life, and Faith
When bookshelves and books appear in photo or video backgrounds, do you zero in on them? Oh, sure, you’re listening to the person being interviewed, or at least you make note of them, but are your eyes sirened in another direction? A friend asked the question the other day and three of us immediately admitted we scanned the book titles….
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I made a family recipe cookbook when my first child left for college. He asked for it. But, I saw no point in providing a plain, ordinary list of recipes. Instead, I included photos and a few stories along the way. Here’s how and why. The importance of a family recipe We often talked about our distant (as in location)…
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What do you do and other touchy questions!
Soli Deo Gloria–what does that term mean? It’s Latin, so no worries if you can’t quite grasp it. But it turns up often enough among Christians, that it might be worth taking a look at it. Soli Deo Gloria–the definition “Glory to God alone.” Simple. To the point. Definitive. For people who worship God, it means that any praise belongs…
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I’m the mother of three sons. “They” say there’s a special place in heaven for the mother of three sons. Which is what we wrote on the third boy’s birth announcement. It’s been a great life and I love everything about them. Raising those boys changed how I looked at the world. Even now when my friends give birth to…
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Honeymoon dictation? Really Oswald? While researching the lives of Oswald and Biddy Chambers, I turned up the story of honeymoon dictation more than once. Oswald and Biddy sailed from Liverpool to North America almost immediately following their May 25, 1910 wedding. They had a lovely 10-day cruise on the S.S. Coronia across the Atlantic before Oswald began speaking at camp…
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