comfort in afflictions | Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires https://anitamathias.com Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art Sat, 07 Nov 2015 09:33:50 +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 comfort in afflictions | Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires https://anitamathias.com 32 32 The Secret History of Hagar: When God Invisibly Comforts the Oppressed https://anitamathias.com/2013/06/28/the-god-who-sees-the-oppressed-and-comforts-the-afflicted/ https://anitamathias.com/2013/06/28/the-god-who-sees-the-oppressed-and-comforts-the-afflicted/#comments Fri, 28 Jun 2013 19:33:38 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/?p=46275 Image: Tissot, Hagar and the Angel in the Desert Hagar, Egyptian maidservant of Sarah, has a hard life. Impregnated, basically raped by Abraham, she is bullied and persecuted by a jealous Sarah—so much so that probable death in the desert feels preferable. (Genesis 16) And in the desert, the runaway slave, with only the clothes […]

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