History, Real Life, and Faith
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?
A WWI novelist’s favorite WWI research books.
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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What happens when a writer buys a house? Is it any different from a “normal” person buying a house? It sort of depends on what you define as normal–and whether or not that writer is married to a normal person. Or an engineer. My husband and I have purchased five homes over the many years we’ve been together (not to…
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