I’ve written recently of how Christian history is littered with stories of missionaries who have not treated their wives well — Carey, Zinzendorf, and Wesley to name a few. I know there are more positive stories out there, so I went looking and found Love Stories of Great Missionaires by […]
This is the full biography of Gladys Aylward whom I mentioned in my last book review and whom we looked at briefly in Missiology. It’s quite a famous book but I hadn’t read it before. I’m glad I did!
Her.meneutics ran a piece today on the absence of women from the contemporary Christian music scene in the US – none in the top 10 Christian songs and artists and only 2 in the top 50. I’d be interested in getting an Australia perspective on this. I don’t really listen […]
Faithful Women and Their Extraordinary God is a collection of short biographies of women who’ve been used by God. Noel Piper wanted to call them ‘ordinary women’ to emphasise that they weren’t necessarily very healthy, gifted, wealthy or glamorous. She tells the stories of Sarah Edwards, Lilias Trotter, Gladys Aylward, […]
I went looking for a diverting read last weekend to give my head a bit of space from Hebrew and came across Redeemed Bodies: Women Martyrs in the Early Church. I had expected it to be a compendium of stories about women martyrs but instead discovered that it was a […]
Christianity Today’s women’s blog Her.meneutics (cute, isn’t it? :)) ran an article by Amy Becker on contraception yesterday, particularly the contraceptive pill. This issue has been on my mind since I read Wendy’s post and the links in the comments and encountered the ProWomenProLife bloggers. Contraception is a much bigger question […]
It’s often been said that music encapsulates an era. I was listening to a greatest hits CD of Destiny’s Child this week and it dawned on me that their music has in many ways been the soundtrack for women of my age. The girl power of the Spice Girls came […]
Meet Jesus at uni 