https://anitamathias.com Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art Sat, 25 Jan 2014 17:24:48 +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/2013/10/19/christ-identical-calling-men-women-follow/ https://anitamathias.com/2013/10/19/christ-identical-calling-men-women-follow/#comments Sat, 19 Oct 2013 09:25:45 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/?p=48608   Jesus calls us to follow him. He makes no distinction between men and women. He does not call women to follow him by “being anxious and troubled” about cooking and cleaning, and men to follow him by fishing. He praised Mary, who sat at his feet and listened to his teaching–  like a seminary […]

The post In which Christ Has An Identical Calling for Men and Women: To Follow Him first appeared on Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires.]]> https://anitamathias.com/2013/10/19/christ-identical-calling-men-women-follow/feed/ 12 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/2012/04/25/never-believe-pronouncements-of-theologians-if-they-conflict-with-your-own-moral-sense-needed-a-healthy-dose-of-scepticism/ https://anitamathias.com/2012/04/25/never-believe-pronouncements-of-theologians-if-they-conflict-with-your-own-moral-sense-needed-a-healthy-dose-of-scepticism/#comments Wed, 25 Apr 2012 12:48:00 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2012/04/25/never-believe-pronouncements-of-theologians-if-they-conflict-with-your-own-moral-sense-needed-a-healthy-dose-of-scepticism/   Never believe pronouncements of theologians if they conflict with your own moral sense.   I am re-reading John Piper’s extraordinary, honest and remarkably self-analytical account of his racist past. Jesse Jackson grew up 3 miles across the town from Piper, in Greenville, South Carolina. Piper writes: Our worlds were so close and yet so far apart. His […]

The post Never Believe the Pronouncements of Theologians if They Conflict with Your Intuitive Moral Sense first appeared on Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires.]]> https://anitamathias.com/2012/04/25/never-believe-pronouncements-of-theologians-if-they-conflict-with-your-own-moral-sense-needed-a-healthy-dose-of-scepticism/feed/ 5 https://anitamathias.com/2010/05/07/air-support/ Fri, 07 May 2010 10:16:00 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2010/05/07/air-support/ I love the brilliant John Piper metaphor for prayer. An embattled foot soldier, surrounded by his enemies calls on his walkie-talkie for aerial support. Which flies in. That’s what I sometimes feel like. In dire need of aerial support. Which does come at my time of need. At a prayer.

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