Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art
It can take ten thousand years for the light from the most distant stars in our galaxy to reach us. And if the speed of light can be so slow, if its story unravels so glacially, why are we astonished when we fail to immediately understand the … [Continue reading]
Christians who are digital natives will, quite possibly, encounter two ministries of the Word each week--the Sunday sermon and Christian blogs. A bad sermon tells you what you should do. It lays down the law. Your shoulders hunch when you hear you … [Continue reading]
Isaac, son of promise, whose name meant laughter, didn’t do very much. His main contribution: "Isaac dug again the wells of water that had been dug in the days of his father Abraham; for the Philistines had stopped them up after the death of … [Continue reading]
I started this because I had to do something about creeping weight gain—17 pounds since I moved to Oxford eight years ago!! Obviously, if I do not do something, it could reach the point that I could no longer go on long walks easily, or explore … [Continue reading]
I was listening to a Vineyard CD of Songs of Surrender, and reflected on how I have been indirectly blessed by John Wimber, a man I’ve never met. Through Vineyard music; through his wife Carol’s moving biography of him The Way it Was; through the … [Continue reading]
Thus speaks the voice of the world as expressed by Robert Frost’s in this poem, Provide, Provide The witch that came (the withered hag) To wash the steps with pail and rag Was once the beauty Abishag, The picture pride of … [Continue reading]
I had a magical Sunday morning in Oxford, watching Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris. I bought the DVD, because it was Woody Allen, without having read reviews. And so I was particularly enchanted. Here was Zelda, as edgy and high-energy and fragile … [Continue reading]
Two years ago, I was in a small group at St. Aldate’s Church, Oxford, discussing Philip Yancey’s What’s so Amazing About Grace? Yancey wrote about his friend Mel White who was a Christian gay man, “Mel felt homosexual longings from adolescence, … [Continue reading]