History, Real Life, and Faith
What does a picture frame have to do with the Christian life? It depends how you look at it. The idea/words popped out of my mouth a number of years ago while talking with a childhood friend. We had grown up in each other’s library books while in elementary school, but the last time I’d seen her was at the 1984…
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I’ve been maintaining a Pinterest board for World War I for three years. It’s part of the background for a novel I’ve written (but haven’t sold yet) set during World War I. My novel is a coming-of-age story about a young woman growing emotionally spiritually and professionally over the course of the war. Oswald and Biddy Chambers are marquee characters in…
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What happened to British book publishing during wartime in the 1940s? I’d never given it much thought until I realized the iconic photo of the Blitz and St. Paul’s Cathedral in London really isn’t about St. Paul’s not burning down. It’s about one million books going up in flames, or as The Bookseller wrote on January 1, 19141, “it was…
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Today at a change of command for a Coast Guard friend, our pastor’s wife asked me if I’d ever attended one before. “Frequently for 20 years,” I said. Changes of commands are part of the military ritual and I enjoyed today’s very much. Most of my civilian friends, however, didn’t know what I what I was talking about. A change…
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Jesus, the Astrophysicists, and Me; an English major is astounded by God’s fingerprints!
Oswald Chambers loved children. Even as an itinerant preacher traveling about the British Isles on behalf of the League of Prayer, he was known for his fondness and wish to have the children come unto him. During those years, he traveled by train from city to city teaching on spiritual issues and lodged with League supporters in their homes. (He was…
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