Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art
1) Everything starts with a good idea. And good ideas can be birthed in periods of intensive prayer. 2) There is no area of our lives which God cannot invade.Interestingly, it was a cognitive shift for me to realize that God cares about the … [Continue reading]
Image Credit I once attended a rather toxic Charismatic church in England. There was a sentence you heard rather often there, and it was, “Don’t tell anyone.” The leader’s wife (untrained, and not particularly intelligent, who proudly and … [Continue reading]
A Man for All Seasons I love A Man for all Seasons, Robert Bolt’s portrayal of the tragic, infuriating Thomas More. We recently saw it acted in The University Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Oxford, in which many of the characters, More, Wolsey and … [Continue reading]
Chives in full bloom in our herb garden The kiss of the sun for pardon,The song of the birds for mirth,--One is nearer God's heart in a gardenThan anywhere else on earth.I feel the deepest peace, the deepest joy when I am alone in my garden, and the … [Continue reading]
Image creditWe’ve just finished studying Jonah in the small group I’m co-leading. I really enjoyed its complexity. Some thoughts!Can you run away from God?Yes, all the time. We can do precisely the opposite of what we know he wants us to do, in small … [Continue reading]
The field next to our garden has two new foals. Though still suckling, they have halters.Clematis on our garden wall. The flowers change from fuschia to bluish-purple to light mauve as they mature.A birch in Marston, Oxford, where I was at a tea … [Continue reading]
And he breathed on them, and said, Receive the Holy Spirit (John 20:22)I’ve said too much.I spoke too freely.And I fearI have betrayed a confidenceAnd, oh, of people I care about!And I feel Small.The weight of failureShameRegretPresses on … [Continue reading]
Image, Dave Walker, and yes, I have met him, and he does exist.Why God is Profoundly Egalitarian and Why we Need More Female Clergy.My Eureka moment: Some time ago, in a church I once attended, I listened to a gorgeous friend tell her heart-breaking … [Continue reading]