History, Real Life, and Faith
Honeymoon dictation? Really Oswald? While researching the lives of Oswald and Biddy Chambers, I turned up the story of honeymoon dictation more than once. Oswald and Biddy sailed from Liverpool to North America almost immediately following their May 25, 1910 wedding. They had a lovely 10-day cruise on the S.S. Coronia across the Atlantic before Oswald began speaking at camp…
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What do Laura Ingalls Wilder and Lettie Burd Cowman have in common? More than you might expect. The authors of the Little House books and Streams in the Desert share a few similarities which might surprise fans of both works. Births They were children of the post-Civil War years in the United States. Laura Ingalls was born on February 7,…
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What good comes from writing a novel in the middle of the night?
I visited the Cowman gravesite in January 2020. It felt like a pilgrimage to leave flowers on Lettie’s grave. Charles and Lettie Cowman lie beside dear friends and colleagues Ernest and Julia Kilbourne. They’re in a row with beautiful plaques marking their final resting spots. Lettie and Charles Cowman and Ernest and Julia Kilbourne did not always lie in rest…
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How Ezekiel 36 predicts modern Israel; with insight from Doug Hershey and EnduringWord.com
I dumped out my biography puzzle several weeks into our 2020 sheltering-in-place. I’d spent three weeks organizing my data, and the time had come to take a deep breath and begin. The experience reminded me of starting a puzzle. (We did that, too) It appears I approach both from a similar mindset. Here’s how they’re similar. Start with the puzzle…
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