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Dr Rick Mathis

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Finding a Grace-Filled Life

Finding a Grace-Filled Life

This book examines Christian spiritual practices that deepen the experience of grace.

2008

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Dr Rick Mathis

Finding Your Voice

Lately I have been attending poetry readings. I am lucky enough to live in a place where these happen periodically. There is always a…

Dec 11, 2023

Finding Your Voice

Dec 11, 2023

Dr Rick Mathis

Meniscus Tears and other Inconveniences

From an orthopedic perspective, it has not been a pleasant few months. I started the summer with a hip problem that involved excruciating…

Nov 29, 2023

Meniscus Tears and other Inconveniences

Nov 29, 2023

Dr Rick Mathis

Arrows

I’ve heard that there is a second arrow

Nov 28, 2023

Arrows

Nov 28, 2023

Dr Rick Mathis

Maybe it’s the books

Recently, I was surprised to learn that my wife, who grew up in the South, had never read George Orwell’s 1984. Nor had she read Brave New…

Nov 21, 2023

Maybe it’s the books

Nov 21, 2023

Dr Rick Mathis

How to Change Your Mind

As a world class ruminator, I know the problems involved with focusing too much upon the recent and not-so-recent past. This is a problem…

Oct 24, 2023

How to Change Your Mind

Oct 24, 2023

Dr Rick Mathis

Chinatown Homeless

Before a recent trip to San Francisco my wife and I heard about the homeless problem in the city. It sounded as if the issue had gotten…

Oct 16, 2023

Chinatown Homeless

Oct 16, 2023

Dr Rick Mathis

Terrance Hayes and Marvin Gaye

There are a lot of great poems and lines in Terrance Hayes’ most recent book of poetry, So To Speak. His poem on George Floyd, for example…

Oct 12, 2023

Terrance Hayes and Marvin Gaye

Oct 12, 2023

Dr Rick Mathis

Is the Prayer of St. Francis the way to Selflessness?

Most of us know the prayer that is attributed to St. Francis. It is the one that begins, “Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.” It…

Oct 10, 2023

Is the Prayer of St. Francis the way to Selflessness?

Oct 10, 2023

Dr Rick Mathis

The Politics of Doing Your Job

Imagine that you go to a physician that is convinced that everyone has cancer. He or she runs test after test trying to confirm their…

Oct 4, 2023

The Politics of Doing Your Job

Oct 4, 2023

Dr Rick Mathis

Finding Inspiration

The poetry book club I am in recently finished reading the Pattiann Rogers’ book, Flickering. Now in her eighties, Rogers has an impressive…

Oct 2, 2023

Finding Inspiration

Oct 2, 2023

Dr Rick Mathis

Dr Rick Mathis

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Johns Hopkins PhD with several publications and work experience at a BlueCross plan and the CIA. Website: rsmathis.com

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