Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art
Above Everything By David Ignatow I wished for death often, But now that I am at its door I have changed my mind about the world. It should go on; it is beautiful, even as a dream, filled with water and seed, plants and … [Continue reading]
I once co-led a slightly dysfunctional women’s group which studied The Emotionally Healthy Church by Pete Scazzero recommended to us by an emotionally unhealthy woman leading women’s ministries and the study ended in emotionally unhealthy tears and … [Continue reading]
So I was tidying our bedroom today, putting my stack of CDs back into their cases and listening to Stravinsky, glorious music filling the room. And though I had been in a bad mood, for no good reason, ungrateful girl that I am, my bad mood lifted. … [Continue reading]
So I’ve spent some time browsing around my blogosphere and social media world to ferret out my friends’ most common New Year’s resolutions. And they are: Exercise more, read more, write … [Continue reading]
I read Matthew 2 as I blog through the Bible, and realize how much sheer misery and hassle and stress Joseph and Mary and Jesus had to endure for no sin or mistake of their own—but purely because of their destiny, purely because of other people’s … [Continue reading]
The King’s Speech—I loved it. Partly because my father had immigrated to England in the forties and fifties when George VI was King. My father was imaginative, and read the newspapers like a novel, and made the events of the forties as real … [Continue reading]
(A hellebore from my garden on Easter Sunday last year) Here’s a lyrical passage from Barbara Kingsolver’s Animal, Vegetable, Miracle Gardening provides rewards far beyond the vegetable paycheck. It gets a body outside for some part of every … [Continue reading]
Tarquin rapes the innocent Lucretia. Lucretia kills herself. She becomes the prototype of people who feel shamed because of things done to them, shamed to the point of death, as we read in media account of Indian girls or their fathers who commit … [Continue reading]