My mother was an unbeliever - and still is. My father was a nominal Catholic. We would go in to church at the last minute before the gospel reading, take Communion, and walk right out again. — 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 worship in an ancient communion full of awesome beauty, one that is now being blessed with quiet revival. — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
People just don't realize how much peer pressure, the desire for peer acclamation, influences them. — Frederica Mathewes-Green Copy Share Image
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. — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
God is not looking for repayment, but repentance. What heals a broken relationship is sincere love and contrition. — Frederica Mathewes-Green Copy Share Image
