History, Real Life, and Faith
Often, I find myself weeping over the sepia photos while researching. It happened again this week. While researching World War I and the Alaskan Gold Rush, my heart surged and there I was weeping over the sepia photos one more time. I’ve spent years in the marveling at actual photos of real events. Your imagination, of course, can and should conjure…
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Kathleen Chambers was the only little girl in a World War I camp in Egypt. Her father, Oswald Chambers served a chaplain at the Zeitoun YMCA camp in Cairo. He brought along with him his wife Biddy and their toddler daughter, Kathleen. As best I can tell, a child in a World War I YMCA camp was an unusual presence. Kathleen, of course, was a…
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Beach reads at an all-inclusive resort!
Who was Oswald Chambers and what is his influence?
I’ve spent the last five years with research books learning about The Great War, World War I, WWI. With the 100th anniversary last month marking the start of the war, I thought I’d share some of the material which has helped, and continues to help, me understand the War to End all Wars. (Pick your favorite name). More than 25,000 books…
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Our dear friend in faith Hillary has spent the last eight months with us, home in the United States from Sicily where she’s been working for a faith-based nonprofit that does community development. She returns to minister to that part of the world next week. We’re going to miss her. While we’ve known Hillary since she was in high school, our…
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