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On Easter Saturday I shared a post about the women at the tomb who were the first to preach the good news of the risen Christ. I noted that the disciples’ initial reaction to them was disbelief and pointed out that 2000 years later some Christian men are still refusing to listen to women who …
Longtime readers will by now know that I have a self-acknowledged “rebellious streak”I don’t think it’s a bad thing, as Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich said: “Well behaved women seldom make history.” This International Women’s Day I’ve been thinking about all the disobedient and rebellious women who challenged unjust male authority in the bible: …
In 2013 I suddenly found myself on the margins of my faith. Prior to this I’d been your average “conservative, evangelical Christian woman”: married, three kids, husband I submitted to, Church on Sunday morning, back home to mow the lawn of our nice suburban semi-detached house in the afternoon. Midweek my husband and I would …
Not all berries are toxic When my son was four or five years old my dad taught him that the blackberries he found growing alongside country paths were edible. It meant for many years we couldn’t go on family walks without having to wait whilst my son stripped every blackberry bush he found of its …
Justin Welby has resigned after a report found that he could have done more to prevent horrific abuse carried out by John Smyth, the most prolific serial abuser associated with the Church Of England. The Church of England has a problem with abuse, it’s still reeling from the Mike Pilivachi scandal, another man who was …
Though he was God, he did not think of equality with God as something to cling to. Instead, he gave up his divine privileges, he took the humble position of a slave and was born as a human being.When he appeared in human form, he humbled himself in obedience to God and died a criminal’s …
Originally published 8th March 2021 Jesus is a Feminist. It amazes me the controversy this statement creates. Of course Jesus is a feminist. A Feminist, in the words of Gloria Steinem “is anyone who recognises the equality and full humanity of women and men” Did Jesus view women and men as full equals? Of course …
I got half way through this revolting spectacle of male arrogance and privilege before I had to stop reading in order to go and calm down. It was the bit where he claims that the vast majority of abortions are the result of consensual sex that finally finished me off, a startling claim to make …
Thursday 11th January, 2024 If I am I because I am I, and you are you because you are you, then I am I and you are you. But if I am I because you are you, and you are you because I am I, then I am not I and you are not you. …
Thursday 14th December 2023 A comment made on a post on my facebook page recently suggested that religion is bad news for women.And it may shock some of you to know that I largely agree.Religion is so often used to put down, subjugate and control women. That’s what religion has always done, control people.“Why are …