We looked at Phoebe Palmer in History of Evangelicalism this week. I’ve come across her before but the lecture gave me reason to read a bit more on one of the most prominent Christian women of the nineteenth century. Authoring 18 books, editing a leading Christian magazine and preaching on […]
In the lead up to the recent CBE conference, which Tamie has already reflected on, The Age published a local write-up of the quarrel between egalitarians and complementarians in Melbourne Anglicanism. We’ve heard some people worry about the article’s inaccuracies, yet it has at least one thing exactly right: Christians […]
CBE conference happened this weekend. I really wanted to go, especially for some of the workshops. Plus, one of the speakers, Kevin Giles, was a former minister at my Adelaide church and having heard so many wonderful things about him, I’d have loved to have met him. But we ended […]
Some time ago I reviewed Practical Theology for Women. By His Wounds You Are Healed is the second offering from Wendy Horger Alsup and she kindly sent me a copy so that I could review it as well! ‘By His Wounds’ straddles genre in the sense that it’s more than a […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 