History, Real Life, and Faith
Do you like to read love letters? Well, certainly if they’re addressed to you. But what if, as an historian, you’re reading someone else’s love letters, say a husband to his wife during a war? I’ve written about this issue before and, frankly, it feels intrusive. The question still remains in my mind: “Is it research or voyeurism?” Look at the…
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If you’ve read as many WWI books and war-based fiction as I have, you may be wondering “what IS bandage rolling?” Why were women always rolling bandages and what did it have to do with war? As a child in 20th century America, the only bandages I knew were Band-Aids. How do your roll those? When we got too “proficient”…
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Do novelists have an easier time with prayer requests than “normal” people? In the sense that they can imagine God doing great and wonderful things even in the grimmest circumstances? Do you know people like that? Or if not a novelist like me, do you perhaps know imaginative people who often speak with confidence about what God could do? My husband…
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I’m in the midst of writing mania these days. It’s glorious. It’s exhausting. It’s numbing. It’s an adrenaline high and I’ll be happy when it’s done. What is writing mania? Let me describe Saturday to you. I’ve been trapped in a wild writing cycle all week long–waking early, writing for several hours, then living a “normal” day, which included writing…
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What happened to Oswald Chambers‘ Bible School (BTC) students? What do modern students do with their Bible school training? Many people, then and now, argue that studying the Bible is an important grounding for whatever you want to do with your life. If you know the basic truths of God’s word and how to apply them, you can take that…
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Oswald Chambers set up his Bible Training College (BTC) in 1911. He had two goals: training students in the Bible and how to apply the Bible‘s teachings to practical living. His aims more than 100 years ago, ring similar to Bible schools today: “The aim of the Bible Training College is to provide the training ground for workers who will “study”…
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