Tamie has previously explored the sense in which women are ‘the weaker vessel’ (1 Pet 3:7). There is a sense in which being a woman means being vulnerable. For us men, built to care for women, our lives must involve keeping women from fear (1 Pet 3:6). We need to […]
Arthur’s been posting on gender for the guys and he asked me to put up part of what I said at the men’s brekky at Christ Church on femininity. (Much of what I said was a rehash of material found here and here but this bit was new.) Being a […]
This mini series is based on some material I shared at Man Up, the Christ Church Hawthorn men’s brekky. Tamie came along to help us understand what makes a woman, and here are some thoughts on how we can respond as men.
Our Monday gym instructor just came third in the Victorian natural bodybuilding comp, qualifying for the nationals in which she will compete this weekend. It’s been fascinating watching her go from being a lean, fit looking woman down to 8% body fat and I’ve been intrigued by both the science […]
Nancy Beach was the first woman in a senior leadership role at Willow Creek Community Church and ‘Gifted to Lead’ is a book about ‘the art of leading as a woman in the church’. It’s not about whether women should lead (as Nancy says, plenty of other people have written […]
One of the things I think was missing from my ‘On Femininity‘ paper was a decent discussion of what being a ‘helper’ looks like. I made a passing comment about God as our helper and that this isn’t about being passive but then spent most of my time unpacking what […]
Here are some thoughts I wrote during Old Testament last semester, which have formed the basis for some of my thinking about gender.
Meet Jesus at uni 