History, Real Life, and Faith
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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What do Laura Ingalls Wilder and Lettie Burd Cowman have in common? More than you might expect. The authors of the Little House books and Streams in the Desert share a few similarities which might surprise fans of both works. Births They were children of the post-Civil War years in the United States. Laura Ingalls was born on February 7,…
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What good comes from writing a novel in the middle of the night?
I visited the Cowman gravesite in January 2020. It felt like a pilgrimage to leave flowers on Lettie’s grave. Charles and Lettie Cowman lie beside dear friends and colleagues Ernest and Julia Kilbourne. They’re in a row with beautiful plaques marking their final resting spots. Lettie and Charles Cowman and Ernest and Julia Kilbourne did not always lie in rest…
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