History, Real Life, and Faith
I wrote Biddy’s biography because of A Poppy in Remembrance. As I’ve recounted elsewhere, I spent several days researching Biddy and Oswald Chambers’ lives. Two intense days focused on the World War I period at Wheaton College, brought the two alive. As I wrote the novel, I knew Oswald would influence the storyline. What I did not anticipate was how…
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Celebrating A Poppy in Remembrance on launch day. The word “launch” truly describes what it means for a book to be published for the first time. Just as with a child, you send your “baby” off into the world to meet it on her own terms. I spent years writing, studying and traveling to make A Poppy in Remembrance an…
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How to make “real” characters in a novel come alive in an honest way.
How the author used themes from My Utmost for His Highest in writing a WWI-coming of age novel, A Poppy in Remembrance.
Africa missionary Sam Staniford’s connections to CT Studd and Oswald Chambers.
How the Anzacs, the YMCA, and Oswald Chambers worked together in WWI Egypt.