Author Archives: Rebecca Matheson

Rebecca Matheson

Rebecca is a 21 year old communication design student who gets forced to post on amateurtheology.org as a condition of her marriage to Geoff. She leads a youth girls small group at Yarra Valley Vineyard and has been blogging about God stuff for almost 3 years.

suburban christian

I was having a conversation with a friend recently about her mum’s thoughts on being a Christian in middle class suburbia and how both natural and difficult it is. (Some of these are my extended thoughts).
The Church and Christian events such as conferences are exceptional at preaching the ‘go get out there’. There is nothing [...]

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modern crusades and the story

I’m not a great fan of the whole ‘pass the email petition along’ but I was especially disturbed when I received one about the author Phillip Pullman (of the controversial series: His Dark Materials) and the soon to be released movie of The Golden Compass. Pullman is controversial in his anti-C.S Lews, anti-Christian/Religious themes. What [...]

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pick and mix

Real scenario (19yrs old) edited for grammatical reasons
“I hear a lot of people talk about finding Jesus, or getting saved. I am a person who is really questioning a lot of things in her life and also wondering if religion can be a new part of my life? How do you know what’s right?
A question [...]

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