Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art
I am writing this for an anthology to appear in October. And here is my first version, which I have decided not to use. I include it here for those who might be interested. A Letter to an Aspiring Writer Hi Anita, So when you were … [Continue reading]
And here's my funniest moment from River Camp, the Pentecostal Family Camp I'm hanging out at. Irene, praying in baby language! Irene was lying on the floor, trying "soaking prayer" with the adults for the first time ever. A lady came and … [Continue reading]
Englishness and Pentecostalism: Can you think of more antithetical things?So watching the English version of Pentecostalism or Charismatic-ness always amuses me. It’s like the watching the English morph into Americans–or Nigerians.I am spending six … [Continue reading]
And here's the interview at the Christian.co.uk site. … [Continue reading]
One Cure for All Social Media Angst The Friend Who will always follow you on Twitter, Accept your Facebook Friend Request, And kindly like your Facebook fan page too. Who will read your blog with close attention, Subscribe to your RSS … [Continue reading]
A few words Jesus wrote Writing and Prayer. We read about them, write about them, talk about them, agonize about them, resolve to do them, wish we’d done them, more than we actually do them. In this they resemble other pursuits … [Continue reading]
An excerpt from Brennan Manning’s The Ragamuffin Gospel. Paul Tillich in The Shaking of the Foundations writes: Grace strikes us when we are in great pain and restlessness. It strikes us when we walk through the dark valley of a meaningless … [Continue reading]
Brennan Manning I am listening to Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel on my iPod as I walk (on the hottest days of the year to date). And I experience grace. I allowed myself to become overweight through 3 decades of being sedentary, and … [Continue reading]