by Australian Christian women. Since September 2015

5 minutes with Tabitha ...

Jan 31, 2017
3 min

5 minutes with Tabitha ...

Tell us a little about yourself I was born in Sydney, and moved to Adelaide with my family when I was young. I have grown up on a property in the Adelaide Hills, where I have always enjoyed exploring and going for walks. I am a very creative person; I love all things art, colour, and photography. Sport has also been a big part of my life. I’ve played for tennis, soccer, basketball, netball and rowing teams. I have just completed my first year at Uni, studying a Bachelor of De

Hilarious God

Jan 30, 2017
4 min

Hilarious God

Faith can be arduous. There, I said it. For anyone who has been a follower of Jesus for more than three hours, you will know that statement to be utterly true. If you don’t agree with me, I would strongly suggest you take a step back and consider the possibility that you’re not doing it right. As for me, I’m often not doing it right. I fail at faith and I fail at life. Yet this is exactly why God has called me to the ministry he has; a ministry in stand-up comedy. Yes, you re

5 minutes with Katrina ...

Jan 28, 2017
4 min

5 minutes with Katrina ...

Tell us a little about yourself My name is Katrina and I coordinate the Visual Arts faculty in an Anglican school. I am proud to call myself a teacher, but I really do so much more than what the title suggests. Rather, I see myself as a preparer of young lives. When young people are encouraged and empowered, they have an incredible capacity to see the world for all its potential. If we can show our young people how to think according to Godly principles rather than worldly on

Treasure Hunter

Jan 23, 2017
5 min

Treasure Hunter

Who do you think of when you think of a treasure hunter? Perhaps someone in 1700’s dress with a tricorne, three cornered hat, coat and waistcoat holding a faded map where x marks the spot? Or maybe it’s a neatly dressed lady waiting in the queue at BBC’s antiques roadshow convinced that the ancient hat pin she has brought is just ugly enough that it might be worth something. Or perhaps it’s the bleak picture of a modern day treasure hunter glued to their seat pushing the butt

5 minutes with Ally ...

Jan 23, 2017
3 min

5 minutes with Ally ...

Tell us a little about you I grew up in a Christian home and I am very thankful for this heritage. I migrated to Australia with my family at age 6. I am now married to an Aussie, work as a General Practitioner and my husband and I are involved in serving particularly among international people at our church. What's your favourite bible passage & why? Romans 8:28-30 - “And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according t

Egalitarian Marriage and Parenting. Making it Work Part 4: A Christian approach to achieving gender

Jan 19, 2017
5 min

Egalitarian Marriage and Parenting. Making it Work Part 4: A Christian approach to achieving gender

So what does this understanding – that gender inequality is directly rooted in sin – offer to couples who are seeking to live out egalitarian ideals? It tells us that Gender gender inequality is not just a practical problem, but a spiritual problem one. So here are three spiritual resources, tools the bible gives us for addressing sin in all parts of our lives, that we ought to pay more attention to when working for gender equality: 1. Transformation, not conformation (Roman

Egalitarian Marriage and Parenting. Making it Work Part 3: The myth of the zero sum game

Jan 17, 2017
2 min

Egalitarian Marriage and Parenting. Making it Work Part 3: The myth of the zero sum game

One of the most crippling and intractable of human beliefs is that human flourishing is a zero-sum game. We believe that another person’s flourishing somehow leaves less for us. That their success limits us. That their gain must equal our loss. Not so. Rather, Paul teaches us in 1 Corinthians 12 that we are a body. And in a body, when one part is strengthened, the whole is strengthened. As members of one body, one person’s gain is everyone’s gain. So much of what limits

Egalitarian Marriage and Parenting. Making it Work Part 2: Genesis 3, Sin, and Gender Inequality

Jan 17, 2017
2 min

Egalitarian Marriage and Parenting. Making it Work Part 2: Genesis 3, Sin, and Gender Inequality

In Genesis 3, after the man and woman disobey God by eating fruit from the forbidden tree, their equal partnership in carrying out their role as God’s image bearers was broken. The power struggle that results, and the rule of men over women (Gen 3:16) is a disordering of God’s good creation. This is descriptive, not prescriptive, and it is life under judgement, not life redeemed. This tells us two important things. First, it tells us that this side of the new heavens and th

Egalitarian Marriage and Parenting. Making it Work Part 1: Egalitarian Australia’s intriguing little

Jan 16, 2017
6 min

Egalitarian Marriage and Parenting. Making it Work Part 1: Egalitarian Australia’s intriguing little

The introduction to Annabel Crabb’s excellent (and funny!) book The Wife Drought provides a depressingly clear picture of the gender inequality that doggedly persists in Australian society. ‘Of Australian couple families with kids under the age of fifteen, 60 percent have a dad who works full-time, and a mum who works either part-time or not at all. How many families have a mum who works full-time, and a dad who is at home or works part-time? Three percent.[1]’ She concludes:

Creation, Redemption & Moana

Jan 5, 2017
3 min

Creation, Redemption & Moana

Despite a pretty average story line, there is a lot to love about Disney’s new film Moana. It has a really beautiful and detailed portrayal of a culture not often seen in film, stunning animations of water, a story about a young woman which doesn’t involve romance, great songs by Jaimee from Flight of the Conchords and Lin Manuel Miranda (Hamilton, In the Heights) and some interesting observations about life in the world and how people relate to the spiritual. What I found pa

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