Category: Christian Life

All We Can Bring

· Frederica Mathewes-Green
[Orthodox Christian Mission Center, Summer 1998] How can we transfigure the world? The world presents itself to us damaged, restless, wronged and wronging, bent of heart and broken of spirit. We present ourselves, come to be its healers, and we are bent and broken as well. How can we transfigure the world? An old Western prayer of confession says, ”There is no health in us."

Tyrranical Victims

· Frederica Mathewes-Green
[World, April 23, 1994] The American Association of University Women, which last year issued a report equating boy-girl schoolyard teasing with sexual harassment, is now concerned about how schools damage little girls' fragile self-esteem. The problem is that they don't have enough role models. Wait a minute, you say. The last time you visited a school, at least half the teachers looked to be female.