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.

Leaping into Light A poem for my father, who died in 1981

· Frederica Mathewes-Green
Leaping into Light Springing from her lap he leaps, my father, into light; Grandmother holds him tight; and Grandad penned the frame with time: “MAR 30-1926” and birthday “7-MONTHS.” But all this fails to hold him back: he leaps to clear the frame with head tipped back and arms spread…

Friday Roundup An alternative to People Magazine for old people, "I Got Saved at the Walmart," Why smoke out bees?, AI hallucinated a new daughter for me

· Frederica Mathewes-Green
For Father’s day, cartoonist Ellis Rosen offered a series of pictures featuring his dad. True confessions: Sometimes I buy the celebrity magazines in the grocery store check-out line. I have no idea who those people are, but I like looking at them. Their lives are hard—chained to a life lived…