History, Real Life, and Faith
What was the inspiration behind Mrs. Oswald Chambers? asked many interviewers. It’s a fair question. Why would I spend two years of my life researching and writing about a woman who died in 1966? I never met her. I’d never heard of her until 2012. What was it about Biddy Chambers that intrigued me so? First inspiration: Abandoned to God It…
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I’ve been buying kid books for Christmas this year. (Actually, I buy kid books every year for Christmas.) Since none of the recipients read this blog (indeed, several can’t read), I feel safe talking about them here. Besides, I’m not going to tell you who is getting what. Preschool boy He’s a rough and tumbling kid who loves to move…
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The London Blitz provided the utmost opportunity for Biddy Chambers to demonstrate resilience. I’ve written before about what happened on December 29, 1940 here. All 40,000 copies of Oswald Chambers-authored books burned in the warehouses surrounding St. Paul’s Cathedral. As did 1,000,000 others books in what one magazine described as “the crematorium of England‘s books.” The fledgling Oswald Chambers Publishing…
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What does home mean to you?
Biddy Chambers demonstrated even more resiliency after Oswald Chamber’s unexpected death in 1917. Left penniless with a four year-old in the middle of a YMCA camp in Egypt, Biddy had a choice. She could fall apart, or she could accept her circumstances and move forward. The YMCA leadership in Egypt asked her to stay on throughout the war. It made…
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My family has learned the importance of the arts in crisis. We’ve just come through the Sonoma County fires and the arts helped. How? When you have six adults, five children, three cats and a dog evacuated from home for a week, you need anything you can get to ease the tension. The children, in particular, needed the arts to…
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