Finn: Mum, are you sad that you didn’t have any girls? I sometimes hear people say to you they don’t know how you do it with three boys, and poor you because you don’t have a daughter… do you wish that you had a girl?
Mum: I’m sorry you’ve heard people say that. Because it’s totally wrong to think that one gender is better than another. I wouldn’t swap any of you boys for a girl!
Read MoreGod talks about the creation of men and women, being very good. The man was alone, and it was not good. He needed someone to work alongside him, and God created the woman and it is very good. Adam and Eve needed to be a team. God didn’t make one better than the other, they were designed to be together. We need both.
Read More“God loves us all, Jesus came to die for us all, so we can all be in a relationship with God, whether we are male or female. But we are not all the same - we are equally loved, and also different. Like the paper and pencil - males and females are not the same, they can do different things but we work best together. We compl-e-ment each other.”
Read MoreA gentle dad means you don’t need to be afraid when you have made a mistake. There is no
anxiety in your child’s mind, worrying about ‘how dad will react’. The gentle dad doesn’t get
angry over small things….
Read MoreSuellen’s experience thinking through, and working together with the men and women of her church, to consider what it looks like both theologically and practically.
Read MoreChristine Jensen helps us think through the importance of teaching, living and applying the Bible with your family, and provides some helpful tips.
Read MorePart three in a series on living as God’s women in God’s world.
Read MorePart two in a series on living as God’s women in God’s world.
Read MoreA series on living as God’s women in God’s world with this first one about confusion.
Read MoreIn part 1 of these articles on Equality, Lesley Ramsay presented the argument that differences between men and women are an essential part of their God given equality, and that to deny the differences is dangerous to women. In this article I will address the issue of how an order of authority does not undermine equality.
Read MoreIn my last post we took a look at some different types of feminism, and also some of the gains achieved by the movement. We also, in light of those gains, wondered whether we should be calling ourselves feminists. My preliminary response was ‘no’: God’s word gives us better diagnoses and better solutions. In this post I’ll try to show you what I mean.
Read MoreThe New York Times magazine labelled 2015 as “the year we obsessed about identity”,[1] and it’s an obsession that isn’t finished yet. Answers to questions of personal identity—‘Who am I’ and ‘What do I identify as’—are now shaping public discourse, and increasingly the answers are expressed in labels. I even discovered recently you can now ‘identify’ as vegan!
And one of the labels people are obsessing over is whether or not to be a feminist.
Read MoreSadly, the suppression of a woman’s equality in our broken world prevailed. But, since the explosion of the feminist doctrine onto world history, equality now trumps difference! Women certainly needed a redressing of that cursed imbalance… but the pendulum has swung so far in the other direction, that women are once more in a precarious position. We want to begin a conversation about why equality without difference is dangerous for women. It is a tale of two equalities: cultural equality and Biblical equality.
Read MoreI was named after Ruth in the Bible. I may be biased, but I’ve always thought she was pretty special. I’ve always been interested in the book named after her. As a child, I thought it was the loveliest of love stories. As an adult I still think it’s within the top five loveliest of love stories, but I’ve come to understand so much more about it, about the three main characters, and about God’s incredible love for each one of them
Read MoreWhen men take the lead in practicing submission, here’s something we will discover: submission is hard. It’s a substantive and weighty act of self-denial. It can feel like death, even though we know it’s the path to life.
Read MoreNew team member Rowena Russell talks here about her decision to be theologically trained at 'a different stage of life' to what you might be used to seeing. Find out more about the joys and challenges of doing theological studies and digging deeply into God's word when you don't fit the usual mould.
Read MoreThis is the second of Stephanie Judd’s two-part contribution to the discussion surrounding the “The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill” podcast. See part 1 here
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