History, Real Life, and Faith
The Headhunter’s Bride is a book of narrative nonfiction, published in 1952, by Dr. B. H. Pearson. I picked up this book because of the provocative title, but also because it’s directly related to Lettie Cowman. I’ve even got a photo of Lettie with a headhunter. According to Pearson, he first heard the story from Lettie. He found it so…
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Is the Bible only about good people?
I’ve written 900 blog posts for this website. Since I’ve been writing here since December 2010, that probably isn’t surprising. That’s roughly 700,000 words. I hope they were good ones! Most Read of the 900 blog posts The top ten, most-read of those 900 posts are these: Bagpipes in the WWI Trenches (#1 on Google) Whatever Happened to Kathleen Chambers?…
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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!