https://anitamathias.com Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art Tue, 15 Mar 2016 22:26:23 +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/2016/03/13/hope-limping-christians-changing-character-act-will-act-grace/ https://anitamathias.com/2016/03/13/hope-limping-christians-changing-character-act-will-act-grace/#comments Sun, 13 Mar 2016 20:09:17 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/?p=66254   Neuroscientist James Fallon was (interestingly!) studying the brains of murderous psychopaths, using brain scans of his family as a control group of the healthy. He suddenly noticed the unmistakable brain scan of a psychopath among his family’s scans. Puzzled, certain it has been misfiled, he has the technician break the code. The brain of […]

The post Hope for Limping Christians. Changing your Character is both an Act of Will and an Act of Grace first appeared on Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires.]]> https://anitamathias.com/2016/03/13/hope-limping-christians-changing-character-act-will-act-grace/feed/ 4 https://anitamathias.com/2014/02/09/power-change-comes-christ-us-hope-glory/ https://anitamathias.com/2014/02/09/power-change-comes-christ-us-hope-glory/#comments Sun, 09 Feb 2014 15:25:27 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/?p=57505 A mosaic in Ravenna, made of millions of broken tessarae of glass and enamel   The principle runs through all life from top to bottom. Give up yourself, and you will find your real self.  Lose your life and you will save it.  Submit to death, death of your ambitions and favourite wishes every day: […]

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