Author: Frederica Mathewes-Green
Frederica Mathewes-Green is a wide-ranging author who has published 11 books and 800 essays, in such diverse publications as the Washington Post, Christianity Today, Smithsonian, and the Wall Street Journal. She has been a regular commentator for National Public Radio (NPR), a columnist for the Religion News Service, Beliefnet.com, and Christianity Today, and a podcaster for Ancient Faith Radio. (She was also a consultant for Veggie Tales.) She has published 11 books, and has appeared as a speaker over 600 times, at places like Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Wellesley, Cornell, Calvin, Baylor, and Westmont, and received a Doctor of Letters (honorary) from King University. She has been interviewed over 700 times, on venues like PrimeTime Live, the 700 Club, NPR, PBS, Time, Newsweek, and the New York Times. She lives with her husband, the Rev. Gregory Mathewes-Green, in Johnson City, TN. Their three children are grown and married, and they have fifteen grandchildren.
On the 12th Day of Christmas Essay from January 6, the Feast of Theophany / Epiphany!
St. Juliana of Lazarevo, “Juliana the Housewife”
Can God Forgive Us for Free–with no payment for sins?
Forgiveness and Reconciliation are not the Same Thing

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The Story of Mary
This 1st-2nd century story was extremely popular in the Christian East from the earliest centuries. Originally an folk story told orally and passed from one community to the next, 140 texts have been found in 8 different languages. The story was rejected in the West, though, so it was unknown…







