Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art
I had a fascinating conversation over a church lunch with a retired British missionary who had worked in Indonesia for 45 years. He had a boyish smile, and sparkling eyes. At an age at which most people have two or three major subjects of … [Continue reading]
I read the New York Times’ distressing account of The Biggest Loser show. Because of their rapid weight loss, the participants’ metabolisms dramatically slowed down, as happens with any diet. Researchers discovered that, six years on, the … [Continue reading]
Image Credit Because of common grace, secular researchers and psychologists can offer us trenchant insights on the spiritual life. I have long been interested in forgiveness (particularly HOW we do it) because it is one of the fundamental … [Continue reading]
He had been “the shyest, most unhappy-looking boy you could imagine,” --so journalist Charles Moore recollects Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury, a fellow-student at Eton, and Trinity College, Cambridge. The alcoholic father, who had custody … [Continue reading]
We are listening to A Praying Life by Paul Miller, a wonderful book on prayer in the car. (I was, incidentally disciplined by the author for almost five years, as he mentions in the book). Anyway, Miller tells us that he often prays aloud. Jesus … [Continue reading]
Sealed Orders I am reading a memoir, Sealed Orders, by the American healer and mystic, Agnes Sanford. Interestingly, I've just read A Man Called Peter, by Catherine Marshall, her biography of her husband, Peter Marshall, who felt that he lived … [Continue reading]
Neuroscientist James Fallon was (interestingly!) studying the brains of murderous psychopaths, using brain scans of his family as a control group of the healthy. He suddenly noticed the unmistakable brain scan of a psychopath among his … [Continue reading]
Eric Liddell: When I run, I feel his pleasure. Haruki Murakami has a strange and wonderful book called "What I Talk about When I Talk about Running.” What he … [Continue reading]