History, Real Life, and Faith
It’s birthday week for Biddy Chambers as I write this post. Born July 13, 1883 in Woolwich, Kent, England, Gertrude Annie Hobbs grew up to become Biddy Chambers. Henry and Emily Gardner Hobbs gave their third of three children a popular and conventional first name and a family name for the middle. Coming in at #22 out of the top…
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The word amateur comes from the Latin base, amator, to love. We’ve taken that word and turned it into a person who loves something so inordinately passionately that they don’t care if it has any monetary value. Amateurs love something for the sake of loving it–and they usually want to share that passion with everyone they meet. Civil War amateurs…
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America held a special spot in Biddy and Oswald Chambers‘ hearts. Oswald Chambers visited the United States four different times. Biddy visited twice. They loved Americans and they enjoyed traveling in the country. The new world gave Oswald and Biddy their first international publication opportunities. His first two books, Biblical Psychology in 1912, and The Sermon on the Mount in…
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Remembering an old-fashioned fourth of July in Maine!
Using Google maps for detailed research
I love biographies. As a newly-minted biographer, surely I have some favorite Christian biographies? Of course. While some of these books slide between biography and memoir, they’ve all been important in my spiritual development. (See this post for the difference between biography and memoir). Here’s a short list in alphabetical order, of eight favorites and why I like them. Bonhoeffer…
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