The Church That Had Too Much

The Church That Had Too Much was well-intentioned. She wanted to love God, she wanted to love people, but she was both hampered by her muchness and the abundance of her possessions, and beset by ambition, power struggles and snobbery. Read about the surprising way The Church That Had Too Much began to resolve her problems in this deceptively simple and fable, illustrated in full colour.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Anita Mathias was born in India and lives in Oxford, England. She has a BA (Hons.) and an MA in English from Somerville College, Oxford University, and an MA in English/Creative Writing from the Ohio State University. Anita has won a Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Minnesota State Arts Board, and fellowships from The Jerome Foundation, The Vermont Studio Centre, The Sweet Briar Writers Colony, and The Virginia Centre for the Creative Arts. She has published in The Washington Post, London Magazine, Commonweal, America, The Christian Century, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Journal, Notre Dame Magazine, Contemporary Literary Criticism, and The Best Spiritual Writing anthologies. Anita has blogged for Tearfund in Cambodia, and has won awards for her blogging and tweeting at the Premier Digital Awards, London. She blogs at anitamathias.com. Her widely-available podcast is called Christian Meditation with Anita Mathias. Anita's books include her memoir, Rosaries, Reading, Secrets: A Catholic Childhood in India; Wandering Between Two Worlds (2007), a book of essays; Francesco: Artist of Florence: The Man who Gave Too Much, (2014), a fable, and The Story of Dirk Willems: The Man who Died to Save his Enemy, on an episode in Christian history.