A Unique Journey through Israel to Oberammergau’s Passion Play. Award-winning Authors Cathy Gohlke and Terri Gillespie will lead a once-in-a-lifetime journey through Israel and end at the location of Cathy’s bestselling book, Saving Amelie, June 15-27, 2020. For …
Road Trippin’ with Tyndale and Melanie Dobson: Stop #9
Welcome to Tyndale Fiction’sRoad Trip Scavenger Hunt! We’re so happy you are here. To participate, collect the key words through all 13 stops in order, so you can enter to win our grand prize giveaway! Some details: The adventure begins on Wednesday, August 1. You’ll have two weeks to make your way through all the stops (giveaways will close on …
Three Things I’ve Learned about Writing from Children’s Classics
Join me today at Southern Writers Magazine Suite T blog as I share Three Things I’ve Learned about Writing from Children’s Classics.
Book Cover Reveal for New Novel
Join me for the book cover reveal of my new WWII historical fiction novel, Until We Find Home, and for a little of the “story behind the story.” I can’t wait to share this story with you, and would love to describe the cover and story’s connections to C. S. Lewis’s book, The Problem of Pain, and his WWII radio broadcasts …
Klopfelsingen–Caroling in Oberammergau
In Oberammergau, the Alpine Village in which I set Saving Amelie, the Thursday before Christmas is known as Klopfelsingen–when children and adults go caroling from house to house. A longstanding Alpine tradition, Klopfelsingen is a pre-Christmas parallel to Sternsingen, or Star singers, in January. The carols sung before Christmas focus on Advent as a time of preparation, and on the importance …
Christmas with the Bonhoeffers
Sabine, Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s twin sister, remembered their family’s happy Christmas Seasons before her eldest brother was conscripted into WWI in 1916: “ On the Sundays of Advent we all assembled with her (their mother, Paula Bonhoeffer) round the long dinner table to sing Christmas carols; Papa joined us too and read from the fairy tales of Andersen . . . …
Planning for Courage
Karl Bonhoeffer, Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s father, recalled that in May 1933–shortly after Hitler came to power–the Nazi Minister for Cultural Affairs spoke at Berlin University, pressuring the university to dismiss immediately all Jewish doctors. Even the Dean tried to persuade the faculty to join the Nazi Party. Dr. Bonhoeffer later regretted that neither he nor his colleagues “had felt sufficient courage …