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Trust: A Message of Christmas

Anita Mathias — Tue, 24 Dec 2019 10:45:29 +0000

He came to earth in a splash of energy And gentleness and humility. That homeless baby in the barn Would be the lynchpin on which history would ever after turn Who would have thought it? But perhaps those attuned to God’s way of surprises would not be surprised. He was already at […]

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Why I Believe in the Resurrection

Anita Mathias — Sat, 04 Jan 2014 15:16:01 +0000

As I was drifting off to sleep last night, I murmured, “I believe in the resurrection.” Roy, woken up, said, amused, “I am glad to hear it!” * * * I was thinking of this passage I had recently read in Diarmaid MacCulloch’s magisterial, A History of Christianity. Christianity is, at root, a personality cult. Its […]

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I Said to the Man who Stood at the Gate of the Year

Anita Mathias — Mon, 30 Dec 2013 18:42:11 +0000

Image credit I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year ‘Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown.’ And he replied, ‘Go into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God That shall be to you better than light and safer than a […]

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Opening a New Chapter, a New Year, under God’s Secret Service Protection

Anita Mathias — Sun, 29 Dec 2013 12:49:13 +0000

Image: Christ in glory in front of the Heavenly Jerusalem, (Mosaic, Burne-Jones, St. Paul’s within the walls, Rome) I listened to the entire Bible on my iPhone this year—the NIV’s dramatised edition– as I walked the country trails around Oxfordshire. And the year dies spectacularly as one walks listening to Revelation—chilling, majestic, dramatic. His […]

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The Stalingrad Madonna: Life, Love, Light at Christmas

Anita Mathias — Sun, 22 Dec 2013 10:41:18 +0000

Translation: Christmas in the Cauldron (German term for Fortress Stalingrad).Light, Life, Love. Writer Mark Stibbe blogged about the worst moment of the battle of Stalingrad, when 300,000 troops of the German Sixth Army were trapped in the destroyed city of Stalingrad, without adequate winter clothes, almost out of food, fuel and ammunition. The attackers became the […]

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In Which Stars Make News Viral, and We Can Trust our PR to Him

Anita Mathias — Fri, 20 Dec 2013 09:24:16 +0000

His birth could not have been more humble, more anonymous–in a manger, for there was no room at the inn. Of their social network, only Elizabeth, Mary’s elderly cousin, confined by pregnancy, and married to the priest Zechariah who was temporarily dumb, had been told. But everything was in the hands of God who loved […]

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The Process of Sanctification: A Guest Post by Kris Camealy

Anita Mathias — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 12:40:51 +0000

I am honoured to host this excerpt from my blogging friend Kris Camealy’s first book, Holey, Wholly, Holy. The best title of the year, isn’t it? “We are brought down to the dust; our bodies cling to the ground. Rise up and help us; redeem us because of your unfailing love” (Psalm 44:25-26). We begin […]

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My Minimalistic and Opted-Out Christmases

Anita Mathias — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 23:32:17 +0000

There was a time when I did Christmas. Wrote and addressed a stack of Christmas cards and letters-a depressing, burdensome chore when all I wanted to do was read and write. Made family collages to enclose with them. Made Christmas cake and Christmas cookies. Set up the tree. And lights. And decorations. Bought the kids […]

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In Which There is Always Room

Anita Mathias — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 18:36:34 +0000

Because of the one for whom there was no room, there is now always room for those who blow it.

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The Favourites of the Lord

Anita Mathias — Wed, 02 May 2012 19:22:00 +0000

Correggio Who wouldn’t want a unique vision of angels? Who wouldn’t want a cutting-edge vision of Jesus and to hear his compelling, electrifying, history-making, immortal words? Who wouldn’t want to be the first to hear the biggest story of all time? To be entrusted to sharing it with the church and the world? To have […]

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