Practical ways to support a Christian missionary working overseas.
To “Pull a Biddy,” and Other Adventures
I’m recently returned from a trip in which I needed to “pull a Biddy,” to encourage myself. I may be the only person who uses that term, but my family understands what I mean. They’ve been living with the Biddy and Oswald Chambers story just as much as I have for the last four years! But what does it mean and…
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Can a Researcher Ever Stop Researching?
“Does the researching instinct ever end?” I’ve been asking myself that question for several years now. The thrill of the hunt never ends–even when it seems like I’ve mined all the data out there. But you never know . . . And that’s what keeps me going. Researching like a puzzle builder While on our family vacation recently, we worked…
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Privacy and the Biographer
How should a biographer handle privacy issues for their subject’s life?
A Fascination with Historic Color Photos
“Historic color photos from Tsarist times,” read the Seattle Post-Intelligencer headline. I read the article with interest. I’d always been a Russophile. An art museum in Seattle held an exhibit many years ago of work by “the photographer to the Tsar,” Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii. It featured several dozen color photos from the early 1900s. I’d never seen anything like them in…
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Oswald Chambers’ Birthday and Thoughts
Oswald Chambers’ birthday at sea!
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