History, Real Life, and Faith
I used major themes taken from My Utmost for His Highest when I wrote A Poppy in Remembrance. They serve as the “backbone” of the story, and should not be obvious. But they provided me with a way of enriching the spiritual aspects of the book. In the novel, twenty-year-old Claire comes to a personal faith at the Bible Training…
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Africa missionary Sam Staniford’s connections to CT Studd and Oswald Chambers.
The Egyptian ANZAC troops and Oswald Chambers–an important relationship.
The final successful cavalry charge in history: Australia’s light horse brigade takes Beersheba in WWI
What do you know about women journalists during World War I? Probably little. Because there weren’t many. Indeed, the most famous “name” from that era, roughly 1914-1919, was a mystery writer, Mary Roberts Rinehart. Others may be familiar with Peggy Hull. Why weren’t there many? Some of it had to do with the nature of war and female journalists in…
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The Sonoma County Fires swept through my community a year ago. I’ve spent a lot of time since thinking about what happened to my county, and particularly to my friends. While no one in my family lost their home, we were all affected in one way or another. I didn’t realize how profoundly I felt until my husband suggested I…
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