Oswald and Biddy Chambers
I’m the author of a biography about Mrs. Oswald Chambers which released in fall 2017.
As part of my research, I’ve written many blog posts about Oswald, Biddy, Kathleen, My Utmost for His Highest, research techniques used in writing the book and Chambers-related posts.
If you are interested in Biddy Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest, as well as Oswald Chambers, his life, his family, his friends and his ministry, examine the list (broken into categories) here.
I’ve also narrated an audiobook of Mrs. Oswald Chambers, available here.
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I wrote a dozen stories about the surprising serendipities that happened while I researched and wrote both the biography, and a historical novel involved Biddy and OC, called A Poppy in Remembrance.
Unexpected emails, astonishing research finds at remarkable moments, photos, and encouragement almost bewildered me for two years!
Not to mention the crazy way it all began. I just went to work one day and my life, my family’s life, my friends’ lives, and my church’s interest turned upside down.
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In addition to Mrs. Oswald Chambers, I also have written an essay for Discovery House’s Utmost Ongoing: Reflections on the Legacy of Oswald Chambers.
I spoke on a panel at Wheaton College‘s Oswald Chambers Symposium on October 20, 2017.
If you are looking for a speaker on any of these subjects, please take a look at my speaker page here.
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You can also hear the author read Mrs. Oswald Chambers on Audible.
So looking forward to hearing you speak at The Church of the Apostles next month!
Thanks! I’m looking forward to it myself and there will be plenty on Oswald, Biddy and My Utmost for His Highest! 🙂
I heard you today at the church of the apostles!! Loved it! Great story and very encouraging!!! Thanks
Thanks! I had such a splendid time!
Dear Michelle,
FYI i have been given a whole cache of OC memorabilia which was originally given to Kathleen’s next neighbour in muswell hill (mccasland only made copies for example of the photographs, I have the originals, plus he upset crown terrace Baptist church by putting their deacons court minutes into the public domain without their permission), plus I have OC’s Bible given to him by Biddy Christmas 1911. I also know of OC’s study desk which I am likely to receive vet soon.
Just one question as I have still to read your biography, what do you think of the previous biography of Biddy published in 2008 which I have, ‘ Searching for Mrs. Oswald Chambers: One Woman’s Quest to Uncover the Truth about the Woman behind the Most Celebrated Devotional’? Finally Arthur Neil who held OC’s philosophical papers passed them on to me when I was at the Faith Mission college in Edinburgh back in the early 1990s. He chaired the OCPA for years. Hope that is all of interest.
Kind regards,
Rev Dr John McNeill