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Monday 20th February, 2023 When the guy I was just starting a new relationship with threatened to break the legs of another guy who had been flirting with me it should have been a big red flag.Instead, I thought it was romantic. I fell in love, we got married and…. Well you know the rest. …
Tuesday 14th February 2023 When I first found myself single after 13 years of marriage I hated Valentine’s Day. It felt like salt in the wounds, whilst all those loved up folks filled their social media pages with sickening mush I was left contemplating loneliness, solitude and whether I was loveable. But, the fuss around …
Thursday 22nd December 2019 I am not a piece of used sellotape that’s lost it’s stickiness (1)I am not a dirty piece of chocolate that’s been passed from hand to hand, that nobody wants to eat. (2)I am not an old, worn out toothbrush.(3)I am not a lump of chewed gum (3)I am not a …
10th December 2022 The last day of the 16 Days of Activism falls on Human Rights Day. Handy really because Women’s Rights are Human Rights.I want to issue that invitation to men again, to come alongside us and purposefully and intentionally work with us to end the epidemic of violence against women. I’m not going …
9th December 2022 If the cause of Domestic Abuse lies in broken masculinity and broken femininity as a result of Adam and Eve’s sin then the answer to Domestic Abuse must surely lie in Jesus, after all he came to restore and heal and put all that stuff right. Sadly, I believe a lot of …
8th December 2022 There’s always some feminist in the news moaning about something isn’t there?Boy clothes having slogans like “little mischief maker” on whilst girls say “little princess” or some comedian making a sexist joke. It seems we’re not even allowed to like a good old fashioned Les Dawson Mother-in-law joke these days eh? But …
7th December 2022“God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.” Psalm 46:1 Imagine you’re fleeing war. You’ve lost your home, you’re injured and enemy soldiers are hot on your tail. You’re hungry, cold, homeless and your life is in danger. Then suddenly, you lift your eyes to the horizon and see …
6th December 2022 My glory days are the late nineties. I left school in 1994 and life really began. My mate got a car; the pub next door to college didn’t care that we were underage; Oasis were topping the charts. and it felt like the sun was always shining. I wasn’t the only one …
5th December 2022 There’s actually two accounts of creation in Genesis. One account is in chapter 1 and it says“So God created humankind In his image, In the image of God he created them; male and female he created them” (Genesis 1:27) In chapter 2 we read the more familiar account where God says “it …
4th December 2022 So how do we work together to end violence against women?We start by correcting those images of masculinity and femininity we hold. Masculinity isn’t toxic. Being male isn’t toxic. Jesus was male and Jesus wasn’t toxic. When we talk about getting rid of Toxic Masculinity we’re not talking about “getting rid of …