Being Elisabeth Elliot: The Authorized Biography: Elisabeth’s Later Years by Ellen Vaughn. B&H Books. 300 pages. 2023
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This is part two of Ellen Vaughn’s outstanding biography of Elisabeth Elliot, following 2020’s Becoming Elisabeth Elliot. You can read my review of that book here.
The author relies on Elliot’s private journals and never-before-published letters. With that information, she had a choice. She could write a victorious, “inspirational” white-washed story, or she could tell it straight, which is what she chose to do. This allowed us to read Elliot’s very personal thoughts. Some readers may be surprised with some of those thoughts. But the author tells us that Elliot herself railed against the image-conscious habits of the Evangelical Machine, whose every story must end with glorious conversion and coherent happy endings, lest God look bad.

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