Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art
I have been wondering about this. About a year ago, we left a large Anglican Charismatic city centre church where we had been for six and a half years, and after a couple of months of checking out Oxford churches and Christian communities (oh, the … [Continue reading]
A corner of my study. As you can see, I have kept too many books!!In 2006, when I was establishing our publishing business, I decided not to buy ANYTHING if I could get it on Freecycle. And so, we partly moved out of the cash economy for a while. … [Continue reading]
A friend of mine who is a social worker was telling me about a woman she worked with, a Kenyan, who had fled a physically abusive marriage to a safe house in Oxford. She had twins: a nine year old daughter, wheel-chair bound with cerebral palsy, and … [Continue reading]
Sunrise in our Garden (taken by Roy Mathias)Why I Wake Early Hello, sun in my face.Hello, you who made the morningand spread it over the fieldsand into the faces of the tulipsand the nodding morning glories,and into the windows of, even, themiserable … [Continue reading]
I heard of the resignation of the Archbishop of Canterbury with very real sadness. A scholar, a poet, a fine, humble human being. I feel rather cross with those who made his tenure a cross.However, the only purpose for this brilliant, imaginative, … [Continue reading]
What's So Amazing About Grace?"Grace means there is nothing we can do to make God love us more. And grace means there is nothing we can do to make God love us less."So no amount of religious knowledge or dedication will make one jot of difference to … [Continue reading]
My daughter, Irene, as a four year old, thanking God for the Rhine Falls in Switzerland!Thanksby W. S. MerwinListen with the night falling we are saying thank you we are stopping on the bridges to bow from the railings we are running out of the glass … [Continue reading]
(Interestingly, I became a Christian while reading this very book in 1979, Anita http://www.anitamathias.com/teenage-atheist.html)So many things change our lives: circumstances, the family we’re born into, where we went to school, what career we … [Continue reading]