A segregated spiritual subculture does women no good, even if it does have adorable butterflies in the logo. — Frederica Mathewes-Green Copy Share Image
Someone who wanted to challenge Orthodoxy would not be able to locate a building to hold a protest march in front of.… — Frederica Mathewes-Green Copy Share Image
Jesus showed us how to be courageous and sacrificial while we die for our beliefs, not while we kill for them. — Frederica Mathewes-Green Copy Share Image
The Church's teaching isn't an official statement, but the cumulative understanding of all the people who have loved and experienced Jesus through… — Frederica Mathewes-Green Copy Share Image
You can latch onto theological ideas that are, in fact, not accurate, and refuse to let them go. I think we've seen… — Frederica Mathewes-Green Copy Share Image
I was raised in a nominal Roman Catholic home, but without any really strong faith there. — Frederica Mathewes-Green Copy Share Image
Lots of Orthodox go to church every Sunday but don't know much about the faith. Yet they know that there is something… — Frederica Mathewes-Green Copy Share Image
Jesus didn't come to save us just from the penalty of our sins; he came to save us from our sins -… — Frederica Mathewes-Green Copy Share Image
I've been able to dig deeper into awareness of my own sinfulness, and take baby steps toward spiritual healing. I'm able to… — Frederica Mathewes-Green Copy Share Image
I know by experience that Jesus Christ is a very powerful spirit - I know by experience that he is probably the… — Frederica Mathewes-Green Copy Share Image
The Bible, that powerful book, has many effects: it comforts, counsels, instructs, and brings us into the presence of God. But trying… — Frederica Mathewes-Green Copy Share Image
The Orthodox hierarchy doesn't have the kind of power that high-ranking clergy do in other churches. There isn't even a worldwide governing… — Frederica Mathewes-Green Copy Share Image
Dusty, dark, cold, and hard, coal has no beauty of its own, but when it is consummated by fire it is beautiful and becomes… — Frederica Mathewes-Green Copy Share
No woman wants an abortion as she wants an ice cream cone or a Porsche. She wants an abortion as an animal caught in… — Frederica Mathewes-Green Copy Share
“As I ponder my pilgrim’s progress to Orthodoxy, however, I realize that I didn’t make the trip alone, but in a two-seater. And I… — Frederica Mathewes-Green Copy Share
Of the seven deadly sins, anger has long been the one with the best box of costumes. When the guy in the next car… — Frederica Mathewes-Green Copy Share
People just don't realize how much peer pressure, the desire for peer acclamation, influences them. — Frederica Mathewes-Green Copy Share
As a teenager and a student, I totally cast away the Christian faith. I just believed it was stupid, and only stupid people could… — Frederica Mathewes-Green Copy Share
Could a body broken and blood spilled two thousand years ago restore my own damaged life? — Frederica Mathewes-Green Copy Share
You can latch onto theological ideas that are, in fact, not accurate, and refuse to let them go. I think we've seen this a… — Frederica Mathewes-Green Copy Share
Women and men just aren't that different. Oh, we're different in some intriguing ways, and it can be fun to band together for all-gal… — Frederica Mathewes-Green Copy Share
“The reason my husband and I became Orthodox was that our mainline denomination was energetically revising its theology; church leaders were teaching that Jesus… — Frederica Mathewes-Green Copy Share
My mother was an unbeliever - and still is. My father was a nominal Catholic. We would go in to church at the last… — Frederica Mathewes-Green Copy Share
God is not looking for repayment, but repentance. What heals a broken relationship is sincere love and contrition. — Frederica Mathewes-Green Copy Share
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. — Frederica Mathewes-Green Copy Share
Somehow we just dont make the same boisterous fun of Holy Week that we do of Christmas. No one plans to have a holly,… — Frederica Mathewes-Green Copy Share
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,… — Frederica Mathewes-Green Copy Share
