History, Real Life, and Faith
We visited Auschwitz as a pilgrimage on our way to Prague. What an emotional stop. Someone we love lost three family members there during WWII. I didn’t think she would ever visit–the horror and loss is too much. But we could go in her place and honor three individuals whose murder changed so much. It behooves us to never forget…
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Two unusual Krakow museums worth visiting
Don’t you love to look at architectural details on buildings? I live in the suburbs of a middle-sized town in California. Ours is a tract house and we’re perfectly happy with it. I stroll our neighborhood admiring gardens and colorful front doors. But the houses themselves look similar. That’s not true in the big city and certainly wasn’t in Krakow….
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We went to see the Krakow trumpeter in April 2018. I’d read Eric P. Kelly‘s 1929 Newberry Award-winning book, The Trumpeter of Krakow, and wanted to hear him in action. The hejnal song he plays is charming–even if it never finishes. My daughter and husband got to meet him. We enjoyed the bugling during our entire stay. Why does Krakow…
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A visit to Poland with a Cold War warrior–and several historic surprises before.
Eva Spink arrived at Oswald Chambers‘ Bible Training College in 1913 and was immediately popular. She took the close relationship to God she developed at the BTC into a lifelong ministry to everyday people from Egypt to England. Eva became one of Biddy Chambers’ closest friends. A surprising beginning One of three daughters raised in a Plymouth Brethren family, Eva…
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