“our worship sometimes sounds over the top (“Save us, O Virgin,” “You are our only hope”), but we know what we mean. Mostly, we mean, “Pray for us.” We don’t mean that Mary has the power to grant eternal salvation,… — 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
