Dreaming Beneath the Spires - Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art

Praying in African

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]

Rolling with the Pentecostals. And Listening to Heidi Baker

By Anita Mathias

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]

Sam Hailes at Christian.co.uk interviewed me

By Anita Mathias

And here's the interview at the Christian.co.uk site. … [Continue reading]

Writing and Prayer ( Originally Published in the Christian Century, 2000)

By Anita Mathias

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]

Brennan Manning on Grace (from The Ragamuffin Gospel)

By Anita Mathias

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]

Inspiration from Brennan Manning’s “The Ragamuffin Gospel”

By Anita Mathias

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]

Simple Pleasures–Or, Cutting off your Nose to have more Room on your Face.

By Anita Mathias

Irene, as a clown, aged 5 “Cutting off my nose to have more room on my face.” That’s how my daughter Irene describes one of my simple pleasures: Decluttering.The pleasure we get from owning less, from uncluttered empty space, is a simple, easily … [Continue reading]

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