How do you think about marriage and singleness? In our Christian culture, we can see marriage as the great goal in life and it becomes an idol, as opposed to the Biblical understanding of marriage. In this post, Jocelyn Bignill reflects on her journey to find contentment in singleness. Hopefully, all of us (married and single) will be able to recognise our own propensity to make idols of God’s good gifts of marriage and singleness.
Read MorePhil and Victoria Colgan have reviewed for us the second edition of Claire Smiths book ‘Gods Good Design - What the Bible really says about Men and Women’. Claire recognizes the reality of bias and the presuppositions we bring to this topic but as far as is possible seeks to let the word of God speak on its own terms.
Read MoreMeet Avril Lonsdale who is part of our steering committee here at Equal But Different. Hear about how she came to know Jesus and what it is like studying at Moore Theological College in preparation for a lifetime of ministry.
Read MoreIn this third article, Robyn looks at, when we know our King, what are some ways we can show Kingdom love and make a difference to those who have experienced abortion or may find themselves facing an unplanned or complicated pregnancy?
Read MoreIn this second article Robyn looks at how we can start to address the many tragic aspects of this issue of abortion. The first place to go to is the gospel of Jesus. We’ll look here at some ways the gospel shapes our thinking on abortion.
Read MoreIt’s important to talk about abortion thoughtfully as Christian women. There are many ways in which God’s Spirit can take up this issue and use it to probe, convict and comfort every one of us through His Word. In these three short articles, we will let God’s Word talk us through abortion and show us something of ourselves, our King and His Kingdom love at work.
Read MoreIn her last post Claire Smith 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. Her preliminary response was ‘no’: God’s word gives us better diagnoses and better solutions. In this post Claire will show you what she means.
Read MoreThe New York Times magazine labelled 2015 as “the year we obsessed about identity”, 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. And one of the labels people are obsessing over is whether or not to be a feminist.
Read MoreAs a young girl, I just loved to talk. I talked all the way through primary school and high school, and when I became a Christian at fourteen, I loved to talk with my Christian friends and leaders about what it meant to follow Jesus. Thirty (thirty!?) years on, I still love to be a part of these encouraging Christian conversations. I went searching for podcasts that specialised in conversations with Christian Women. When I couldn't find any, I decided to start one!
Read MoreSince 2011 Jane Tooher has been Director of the Priscilla & Aquila Centre: a centre with the stated mission of benefitting women and encouraging their ministries in partnership with men. We chat with Jane about possible blindspots and barriers to effective complementary partnerships in ministry.
Read MoreThe Bible speaks of distinctive and complementary roles for women and men in ministry, but what might that look like in practice? What does it look like in a parachurch setting like university ministry? We chat to Tim Earnshaw and Julia Bollen. Tim is the Campus Director and Jules the Senior Women’s Staff Worker with the Christian Union at James Cook University (JCU).
Read MoreI said at the beginning of part 1 that this would be a rule-free zone, because legalism will kill the heart of modesty. But we need to think deeply, and challenge ourselves about the implications of what the Bible is saying. Rather than following a list of rules, then, what are the questions we need to ask ourselves?
Read MoreKatherine Zell was a woman who trusted God and his word. Her writings don’t show someone fake, sterile or sanitized. Rather, in their pages we meet a real woman, with strengths and weaknesses. So who was Katherine Zell?
Read MoreWhat does complementarian ministry look like? We chat to Lisa Boyd and Bruce Morrison of St John’s Cathedral, Parramatta, about the ins-and-outs and ups-and-downs of working as a team.
Read MoreSo often discussions about modesty end up in a list of rules: this is godly, that is not; only go this low, not that high; don't show this, or that… There is a ferocious legalism associated with modesty. This article is a rule-free zone because legalism will kill the heart of modesty. So if it's not a list of rules, what is modesty?
Read MoreYou’re a strong, capable, independent woman whose identity is found in self, and whose concept of success is closely aligned to job title or pay packet. And now you have become a Christian! What next?
Read MoreWhat is it about listening to the stories of Jesus at work in people's lives that pushes us on to greater trust in and desire to serve our heavenly Father? After interviewing Carol and Stephanie on stage at the 2016 OneLove women’s conference in Sydney, Libby Janssen shares how she was both encouraged and challenged as she reflected on how the gospel has transformed their lives.
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