![]() He turned down a scholarship to what is now known as the Royal College of Art, only to pursue two more years of art training at the University of Edinburgh. An artist by training, the Scottish Chambers grew up in the home of a pastor in London. My Utmost is, too, a biography of Oswald Chambers, whose life did not follow the traditional path of a nineteenth-century clergyman. ![]() Halford combines spiritual autobiography with social commentary and church history in doing so she puts her own life and experiences within the broader context of the role of religion in contemporary America. My Utmost describes her life, career and increasingly conflicted faith, and how all three have been influenced by Chambers’s devotional. ![]() This is the community in which Halford grew up, her childhood dominated by church camps, Sunday School and conversations with her strict grandmother. Bush and a cherished text among evangelical Christians. Chambers’s devotional is a favorite book of President George W. ![]() Halford takes her title from My Utmost for His Highest, a ninety-three-year-old book by Oswald Chambers, a Scottish artist-turned-preacher whose writing has been translated into more than thirty-five languages. ![]() This makes it a kind of devotional-but it’s also a book about another devotional, one far older and far more famous. Macy Halford’s first book asks Christians and non-Christians alike to reflect on how religious thought influences public and private life. ![]()
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