Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art
Okay, when I started playing, I was sceptical of people who suddenly ask you to give “a prophetic word” to the person next to you, as Rachel Hickson did at St. Aldate’s.I was sceptical as I wrote, but, in fact, a highly meaningful, … [Continue reading]
Annoyingly, I can't find it online, but as a teenager, my father had given me a quote from Charles Kingsley saying something like, "If you are sad, work. If you are sleepless, work. If you are bored, work. If you are restless, work. If disappointed, … [Continue reading]
I went to a conference in Oxford today taught by Patricia Bootsma and encountered the idea of Prophetic Decrees. She writes about this in her book, Convergence: Heaven’s Destiny Becoming Your Reality. She and her husband had received many … [Continue reading]
Why should you care about St. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, born in the 4th century and dead in the 5th? What can a dead white guy from ancient Africa have to teach you today? After all, you and I live in the age of the Internet. The age of … [Continue reading]
Image Credit I used to write letters home in rhyming verse when I was 9. My teacher was so charmed with one of them that she submitted it to the … [Continue reading]
Never believe pronouncements of theologians if they conflict with your own moral sense. I am re-reading John Piper’s extraordinary, honest and remarkably self-analytical account of his racist past. Jesse Jackson grew up 3 miles across the … [Continue reading]
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Blue Mosque interiorOn a sunny day, I wrote a happy little blog called Praise the Lord, Anyway.And the Lord read it, and smiled, and said, “Good girl, Anita! Yes, yes, you are right, of course. And so that the nice words you've written truly move … [Continue reading]