History, Real Life and Faith
I’ve been maintaining a Pinterest board for World War I for three years. It’s part of the background for a novel I’ve written (but haven’t sold yet) set during World War I. My novel is a coming of age story about a young woman growing emotionally spiritually and professionally over the course of the war. Oswald and Biddy Chambers are marquee…
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What happened to British book publishing during wartime in the 1940s? I’d never given it much thought until I realized the iconic photo of the Blitz and St. Paul’s Cathedral in London really isn’t about St. Paul’s not burning down. It’s about one million books going up in flames, or as The Bookseller wrote on January 1, 19141, “it was…
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Today at a change of command for a Coast Guard friend, our pastor’s wife asked me if I’d ever attended one before. “Frequently for 20 years,” I said. Changes of commands are part of the military ritual and I enjoyed today’s very much. Most of my civilian friends, however, didn’t know what I what I was talking about. A change…
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I got involved with Jesus and scientists about the same time. Mine was a simple childhood in a family of athletes, history buffs, readers and musicians. But I started attending a Lutheran church the summer before high school and there met Jesus and then a cute guy. Jesus saved my soul. The cute guy told me, “I’m going to be an engineer someday.”…
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Oswald Chambers loved children. Even as an itinerant preacher traveling about the British Isles on behalf of the League of Prayer, he was known for his fondness and wish to have the children come unto him. During those years, he traveled by train from city to city teaching on spiritual issues and lodged with League supporters in their homes. (He was…
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The Lumberjack’s Bride is Pam Hillman’s contribution to The 12 Brides of Summer Collection A sequel to her The Evergreen Bride story from The 12 Brides of Christmas, The Lumberjack’s Bride returns to the same heart of the Mississippi pine belt in 1889. Many of the characters return to this story set 18 months later when the family sawmill and…
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