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Lucy S. R. Austen
@lucysrausten.bsky.social
Author. Editor. Lover of hot tea. Interested in almost everything.
Full-length single-volume biography, Elisabeth Elliot: A Life, available now.
"He must discover the inevitable mixture of error and corruption which she contracted in a long residence upon earth, among a weak and degenerate race of beings.”
—Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 2/2
November 6, 2023 at 2:52 PM
And I enjoyed talking with Andrea L. Turpin about Elisabeth Elliot: A Life for the Anxious Bench:
The Elisabeth Elliot We Never Knew: An Interview with Lucy Austen
I am delighted to welcome Lucy S. R. Austen to the Anxious Bench to discuss her new biography, Elisabeth Elliot: A Life.
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October 27, 2023 at 9:50 PM
While I play catch-up, I also wanted to share a couple of links to things I've been working on. I was excited to participate with Kathryn T. Long and @kkdumez.bsky.social in a book panel on Elisabeth Elliot: A Life for the Conference of Faith and History, and an audio link is here:
October 2023 Book Panel | Elisabeth Elliot: A Life by S. R. Austen - The Conference on Faith and Hi...
Elisabeth Elliot (1926–2015) is one of the most widely known Christians of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. After the death of her husband, Jim, and four other missionaries at the hands of ...
faithandhistory.buzzsprout.com
October 27, 2023 at 9:49 PM
Reposted by Lucy S. R. Austen
“Rather than trying to tidy her up, we have to find a way to live with the complexity. We can’t neaten her up enough to put her in one box or category. Really, probably, that’s true of all of us.”

— @lucysrausten.blsky.social
October 20, 2023 at 3:28 AM
Love this.
October 3, 2023 at 6:20 PM
Saving this to read, thanks!
October 3, 2023 at 6:20 PM