Frederica Mathewes-Green
Easter may seem boring to children, and it is blessedly unencumbered by the silly fun that plagues Christmas. Yet it contains the one thing needful for every human life: the good news of Resurrection.Collection: Easter
Easter tells us of something children can't understand, because it addresses things they don't yet have to know: the weariness of life, the pain, the profound loneliness and hovering fear of meaninglessness.Collection: Easter
The Christmas story has such power and such appeal every year. There are other stories we get tired of. You think of your favorite movie; you don't want to watch it 15 times.Collection: Christmas
As a teenager and a student, I totally cast away the Christian faith. I just believed it was stupid, and only stupid people could believe it. I actually became an anti-Christian, and very antagonistic.Collection: Faith
People don't do theology in a vacuum but in a community with other theological thinkers, where there's jealousy, vanity, hurt pride, all those things.Collection: Jealousy
Somehow we just don't make the same boisterous fun of Holy Week that we do of Christmas. No one plans to have a holly, jolly Easter.Collection: Easter
God is not looking for repayment, but repentance. What heals a broken relationship is sincere love and contrition.Collection: Relationship
Of the seven deadly sins, anger has long been the one with the best box of costumes. When the guy in the next car rages at you, he's dangerous. When you rage at him, you're just. We can usually recognize the results of anger, especially in others, as destructive and evil.Collection: Anger
No woman wants an abortion as she wants an ice cream cone or a Porsche. She wants an abortion as an animal caught in a trap wants to gnaw off its own leg.Collection: Animal
Like an animal caught in a trap, trying to gnaw off its own leg, a woman who seeks abortion is trying to escape a desperate situation by an act of violence and self-loss. Abortion is not a sign that women are free, but a sign that they are desperate.Collection: Loss
Everyone wants to transform, but nobody wants to change.Collection: Learning
Jesus showed us how to be courageous and sacrificial while we die for our beliefs, not while we kill for them.Collection: Jesus
God's presence is not just Light, and Life, but Love. And Love invites, but does not compel.Collection: Light
Abortion is not a sign that women are free, but a sign that they are desperate.Collection: Abortion
Jesus didn't come to save us just from the penalty of our sins; he came to save us from our sins - now, today, if we will only respond to the challenge and let him.Collection: Jesus
Dusty, dark, cold, and hard, coal has no beauty of its own, but when it is consummated by fire it is beautiful and becomes what it was designed to be.Collection: Beautiful
Somehow we just dont make the same boisterous fun of Holy Week that we do of Christmas. No one plans to have a holly, jolly Easter.Collection: Easter
Sex is still the leading cause of pregnancy.Collection: Sex
Could a body broken and blood spilled two thousand years ago restore my own damaged life?Collection: Blood
It is not a loss of inert, amorphous tissue, but of a growing being unique in history.Collection: Loss
Disaster movies do us the psychological service of forcing a quick march through the worst that could happen. At the end we see that you win a few, you lose a few, some cars are up in trees, and only the most attractive of the young people have survived.Collection: Winning