https://anitamathias.com Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art Thu, 14 Nov 2013 01:05:49 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://anitamathias.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/cropped-Anita_lgr_hi_res_square_512-32x32.jpg https://anitamathias.com 32 32 https://anitamathias.com/2012/10/21/when-the-risky-word-of-the-lord-came-to-the-lonely-prophets/ https://anitamathias.com/2012/10/21/when-the-risky-word-of-the-lord-came-to-the-lonely-prophets/#comments Sun, 21 Oct 2012 19:12:33 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/?p=33715 I am listening to the Bible in a year while walking country trails.  Listening to a whole book in a long walk or two, helps me see “the big picture” of Scripture and its themes. The Prophets have grabbed me. You just don’t mess with those Prophets, because God is with them. And yet, it’s a lonely […]

The post When the Risky Word of the Lord Came to the Lonely Prophets first appeared on Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires.]]> https://anitamathias.com/2012/10/21/when-the-risky-word-of-the-lord-came-to-the-lonely-prophets/feed/ 2 https://anitamathias.com/2012/10/09/in-which-i-trace-my-evolving-views-on-gay-christians/ https://anitamathias.com/2012/10/09/in-which-i-trace-my-evolving-views-on-gay-christians/#comments Tue, 09 Oct 2012 22:53:42 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/?p=32772 Two years ago, I was in a small group at St. Aldate’s Church, Oxford, discussing Philip Yancey’s What’s so Amazing About Grace?  Yancey wrote about his friend Mel White who was a Christian gay man, “Mel felt homosexual longings from adolescence, tried hard to repress those longings, and as an adult fervently sought “a cure.” […]

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