Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art
Image Credit Do you want a simple guide to freshen and declutter your house? Here it is from the Pre-Raphaelite, William Morris: If you want a golden rule that will fit everything, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do … [Continue reading]
Being an artist means: not numbering and counting, but ripening like a tree, which doesn’t force its sap, and stands confidently in the storms of spring, not afraid that afterward summer may not come. It does come. But it comes only to those who … [Continue reading]
Image Credit Running as fast as we can. Not because we are being chased by a hungry lion. Not to catch a train. Not to get anywhere. Just running.Lifting pounds of iron, again and again. Not to build something. Not to stack shelves. … [Continue reading]
If you could hear, at every jolt, the bloodCome gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cudOf vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,My friend, you would not tell with such high zestTo children ardent for some … [Continue reading]
A Way of Writingby William StaffordA writer is not so much someone who has something to say as he is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things he would not have thought of if he had not started to say them. That is, he does not … [Continue reading]
Image Credit In Marlowe's Doctor Faustus, good and bad angels speak persuasively to Faustus. He chooses the path of adventure, exploration and experience. Two voices, saying different and opposite things. It's a more common experience than I … [Continue reading]
Image: Tash and AslanWhen I was twenty-something, young and ambitious, I read this statement by Willa Cather, The God of Art demands human sacrifices."Okay, then," I said, understanding that achieving mastery, artistry, would take a total … [Continue reading]
Charles Templeton, Left, Billy Graham, RightAs described in my post Inerrancy and Me, Billy Graham's decision to believe in the divine inspiration of Scripture led him on to a joyful and fruitful ministry.When Graham was young though, most believed … [Continue reading]