Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art
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]
My daughter Irene succeeding at walking. I was mentored in my thirties by a friend who genuinely knew God, but was nevertheless conservative and sexist, and made me feel guilty about my call to write which he saw as “dabbling.” He felt I should … [Continue reading]
“Do not despise prophecy,” the Apostle Paul says, somewhat surprisingly. Why would we despise it? Because we tend to suspect what we do not understand? Or because prophecy can attract fools, charlatans, the unstable, and conmen seeking to gain … [Continue reading]
Elephants, majestic, loveable, gentle beasts, are tamed by cruel means I hate reading about in Thailand, principally, in Nepal, in India and in Malaysia. A common trick, less cruel than the others though, is this. The elephant is initially chained … [Continue reading]