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Homo Sapiens and Homo Stupidus: On Giftedness and its Price

Anita Mathias — Mon, 18 Aug 2014 18:19:50 +0000

I live-blogged in Cambodia recently, fund-raising for a charity. We were to be accompanied by a “Christian celebrity” who had promised to do national talks on her return. The posters had been printed. Well, she was not at Heathrow. Among several possible forms of ID, she sent off her passport to get her driver’s […]

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In Which Drivenness Comes from the Enemy of our Souls, but Christ Gives us Balance

Anita Mathias — Fri, 20 Jun 2014 17:51:23 +0000

In her book The Soul of Money, global activist Lynne Twist refers to scarcity as “the great lie”. Twist writes, “For me, and for many of us, our first waking thought of the day is, “I didn’t get enough sleep.” The next one is “I don’t have enough time.” Whether true or not, that thought of “not enough” […]

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Ora et Labora: How Physical Activity helps my Creative and Spiritual Life.

Anita Mathias — Wed, 23 Oct 2013 11:59:51 +0000

I recently went off routine into a funk. This had been my schedule: Wake, pray, and then read scripture, and blog about it, or whatever the Holy Spirit is bugging me about. This took about two and a quarter hours. After which I did some housework and decluttering for an hour. Then gardened, another hour. […]

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