Author: Frederica Matthewes-Green
Frederica Mathewes-Green is a wide-ranging author who has published 10 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 10 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 fourteen grandchildren.
The Reason for the “Messianic Secret”

Prayer and the Playground
[2020-1-10] Talking to my grandkids about prayer, I said: âImagine it is recess and you need to tell the teacher something important. But he is sitting and talking to the other teachers, and not paying attention to you. âBut then he begins to pay attention. He turns to you andâŠ
Rage and Statues
Thomas Sunday
An Eerie Dream
Frederica Here and Now podcast recording of this dream
One aspect of getting older, for me, is that I donât remember my dreams as well as I used toâthere are just little scraps of dreams that fly away when I wake up. But last spring I had a dream that, even while I was having it, I knew it was important to remember it. Even as the dream was ending, I was already counting up the points I needed to recall.
In my dream, we all knew we were going to die. Everyone in the world was going to die. A cloud of air bearing very fine, sharp particles was slowly encircling the earth; when people inhaled, it infiltrated the lungs, piercing the cells and destroying them. There was no way to stop the advance of this fog, and its effects were incurable. Wherever this fog had gone, it had killed the entire population. This cloud was gradually encircling the entire world, and eventually it would reach America.
St. Patrick’s Breastplate
“First Fruits” Audiobook!
âFirst Fruits of Prayer: A 40-Day Journey Through the Canon of St. Andrewâ has just been released as an audiobook. Many people tell me that they reread this book every year during Lent. Some people have more time to listen than to read, though, so hopefully theyâll find this useful.âŠ
Tearing Their Garments
You know how, in the Bible, sometimes it says people tear their garments? Matthew 26:25, âThe high priest tore his garments and said, âHe has spoken blasphemy!â.â
I always thought that the women present must have breathed a quiet âNooooooâ at that moment. Think of how hard it is to weave fabric. Look at the sleeve of whatever youâre wearing, and notice how many horizontal lines it takes to make up even an inch of vertical fabric. In that high priestâs time, a person (probably a woman) would make such a garment at a wooden loom, passing a thread carefully over and under, back and forth, through the lengthwise threads. Making any kind of fabric took forever!
“A Shepherd Looks at Psalm 23”
