Tamie Davis is an Aussie living in Tanzania, writing at meetjesusatuni.com.
It’s no secret that I’m a huge fan of The Biggest Loser. Last year I even went in the middle of the Hebrew intensive to see Shannan and Michelle at a local shopping centre! I’m excited that it’s back on and loving the early days of this ‘Families’ season.
Muriel Porter lives in Melbourne and is a familiar speaker at Anglican meetings such as Synod. She’s written ‘The Christian Origins of Feminism’, found in Maryanne Confoy, Dorothy A Lee and Joan Nowotny’s Freedom and Entrapment: Women Thinking Theology. Porter has an agenda in writing this piece: she’s an avid supporter of women’s […]
When I blogged on Women Only Communities I mentioned a paper I was intending to read on the place of women in Muslim societies. The author uses both her experiences of living in the Middle East for 20 years and scholarship to ask how understanding this might help in the evangelism […]
She Can Read is Emily Cheney’s attempt to answer the feminist question of whether it is possible for a ‘her’ to read. While some feminists highlight women’s writing over men’s, others suggest that because language is so laden with patriarchy, even when women write or read, they reinforce that patriarchy. […]
Arthur’s been blogging through some of the content from CMS Summer Encounter. (Victorians, that’s the SA equivalent of SUTS.) It’s an absolute highlight of the year for us and not just because we love CMS and are applying to be missionaries with them. One significant change for me from this […]
I blogged recently about the Protestant ideal woman, the mother. Luther considered this to be a sacred calling. Cutting across the tendency to see some vocations as ‘holy’ and some as ‘secular’, Luther saw all work as a way of glorifying God. Yet, in today’s world, women “leave” work to […]
Exum raises a number of questions about how we read biblical texts that seem to oppress women. One question is what they say about women. Another is what they say about God. One problem is that there is no perfect culture. All human interactions are tainted by sin. But what […]
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