Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art
Christ Church, Oxford University Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better. Samuel Beckett So it’s a New Year…2017. I love this hopeful period of looking back on the past year, and considering how to revise my life … [Continue reading]
When I blogged regularly, which I did for six years, I felt more alive, more alert, more attentive to my life, and what God was doing in it. In Frederick Buechner’s phrase, I listened to my life. I have taken a six month blogging break, … [Continue reading]
So I supported the Remain campaign. I love Europe, and I truly believe that our world needs a United States of Europe to provide a counterbalance to the emerging ruthless power of China, as well as the power of the United States. I love borderless … [Continue reading]
Lake Bled, Slovenia where we were last summer A friend describes her passion as: exercising and travel and exercising when she travels. The last phrase made me feel wistful because I never used to exercise when I travel. I found spending all day on … [Continue reading]
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]