Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art
Here's an essay I wrote in 1999 in Williamsburg, Virginia, in the fortnight before Irene was born on May 5th, 1999.When she did not arrive on her due date, after I'd stopped work and waited for her for a month, I started a new essay in despair, … [Continue reading]
Matthew 27 1-10, Blog Through the Bible Project Judas Hangs Himself 1 Early in the morning, all the chief priests and the elders of the people made their plans how to have Jesus executed. A legal quorum. The Sanhedrin could not have a legal session … [Continue reading]
Matthew 27 1-10Judas Hangs Himself 1 Early in the morning, all the chief priests and the elders of the people made their plans how to have Jesus executed. A legal quorum. The Sanhedrin could not have a legal session at night, so at … [Continue reading]
It speaks a language of its own, sometimes in such insistent tones that it interrupts the quietness of my own thoughts. At times, my house seems haunted like the castle of fairy tales in which the clock, the teapot, and candelabra whisper … [Continue reading]
I recorded my disquiet yesterday at the assassination--without trial--of Osama Bin Laden.Kipling's Recessional--which my father introduced me to, he used to quote the second stanza--has been lingering in my head this week. RecessionalBY RUDYARD … [Continue reading]
Matthew 26 69-75 Blog Through the Bible ProjectAmong Scripture's saddest and most terrifying episodes.What? Is this Peter? The brave, the bold, the impetuous, the plain-talking, the honest Peter? Him with his foot in his mouth? What's up?Fear can … [Continue reading]
Matthew 26 69-75 Blog Through the Bible Project Among Scripture's saddest and most terrifying episodes.What? Is this Peter? The brave, the bold, the impetuous, the plain-talking, the honest Peter? Him with his foot in his mouth? What's up?Fear … [Continue reading]
RecessionalBY RUDYARD KIPLING1897God of our fathers, known of old, Lord of our far-flung battle-line, Beneath whose awful Hand we … [Continue reading]