Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art
Detail from a courtyard wall at the Alhambra (stucco above, tile below) (Thanks, Roy Mathias, for all your help with photographs and writing for this post.) Click, or right click, on an image to see a larger version. We have had wanted to visit … [Continue reading]
My good friend, Paul Miller says, “People say, ‘All I have left is prayer,’ as a euphemism for ‘There’s nothing I can do.’ “ But that is like saying, “All I have left is a nuclear bomb.” In fact, because of long experience of trying to do things … [Continue reading]
I've lived in Oxford for 10 and a half years now, in two instalments, and still love it.I read a email yesterday from an American friend who did some ministry in London earlier this month. “We were immersed in British culture. We loved their sense of … [Continue reading]
Okay, last on Rome for a while. Roy has been writing up our trip before it blurs into the mists of memory.Santa Maria Maggiore is one of the twenty "Santa Maria" churches listed in our guide to Rome, and one of the five great basilicas of Rome. The … [Continue reading]
(We had two laptops, one ipod and one ipad stolen in Sweden which had ALL the photographs from our trip in April to Ravenna and Bologna, our July trip to Strasbourg, and half our August trip in Sweden. So we've got motivated to post our pictures … [Continue reading]
My husband and daughters would flee if they read this title, because I do get maudlin about my dogs.But honestly, what’s not to love? For me, the doggie smell, the shed fur, the muddy paw-prints are nothing compared to the constant loving friendship, … [Continue reading]
A photo-essay by my husband, Roy St. John Lateran (Arcibasilica Papale di San Giovanni in Laterano) is the Cathedral of Rome, and the official ecclesiastical seat of the Bishop of Rome, that is the Pope. However, it is built on a quiet square, … [Continue reading]
1001 Gifts: My Body Okay, this isn’t a post I ever thought I’d be writing, since you and I have been at war since my teens, but O Body given to me, I am grateful to you. I am grateful for your sturdy health, for how you rarely let me down, … [Continue reading]