The Stenographer Who Never Stopped Writing

When Oswald Chambers died suddenly in Cairo in 1917 at the age of forty-three, his wife Biddy faced an unimaginable loss. She was a trained stenographer, and throughout their marriage she had quietly transcribed nearly every lecture and sermon her husband delivered — filling notebook after notebook in her precise shorthand. Biddy's modest hope was simple: preserve Oswald's words so their daughter could someday know her father's faith.…