by Australian Christian women. Since September 2015

Tell us a little about yourself My name is Lucy. I am recently married to a wonderful man named Sebastian. I love spending time with Bas, I love how we encourage each other in our walk with Jesus. I love being efficient and organised and do that 4 days a week as the missions administrator for Scripture Union NSW. What's your favourite bible passage & why? Romans 8:38-39 This world offers so many uncertainties and I love how certain we can be of the love of God that is

There is a lot of anxiety these days about gender identity and raising boys secure in their masculinity. To be honest, I’m much more worried about raising up men – or rather, human beings who are being transformed into Christ like maturity. This isn’t an abstract worry for me. I’m the mother of two boys, one about to enter his teens. My heart is troubled as I think about our boys. Not because I share the fears of those who think boys are being sidelined. It still seems to me

I’ve been blessed recently by Ellie Holcomb’s “Fighting Words”. It’s an anthem that calls us to pick up the Sword of the Spirit, the Word of God and to fix our eyes on Jesus. It inspires this first reflection on an episode in my life where I needed fighting words. As a cross-cultural worker in Central Asia, I was no stranger to talk of battles and fighting. I was of course keen to avoid the fighting that comes from living in a warzone but was realistic enough to know that the

My day ended as it had began: thinking about the credibility of women’s testimony in the Church. As a lecturer for the School of Theology for Charles Sturt University, my morning class examined the critical role of eyewitness testimony in the story of Jesus Christ. The surprising role of women recorded as the first witnesses of Jesus’ resurrection remains one of the more remarkable features of the origins of Christianity. As an ordained minister at Paddington Anglican Church,

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Tell us a little about yourself. I’m a passionate pioneer, married to Brian and have three amazing kids. My husband and I love starting new businesses or other new and exciting ventures. I work as an associate pastor at Glen Waverley Anglican Church and love the community there and the freedom I’ve been given to pioneer new gospel ministries. What's your favourite bible passage & why? For a long time its 1 Timothy 4:12 “Don't let anyone look down on you because you are

Tell us a little about yourself I'm 25, I'm a Speech Pathologist and work at one of the local hospitals, I'm a middle child (of 3 kids), I love singing, drinking coffee especially with a friend or two, being on or near the water is my happy place. I have a wonderful fiancé. I love people and being around people energises me. I also do love a good night in front of the TV. What's your favourite bible passage & why? I reckon Romans 1-8 in its entirety. It's too good to no

Tell us a little about yourself I am married and have a wonderful husband and 2 children, 16 and 14, one who is on the autism spectrum. I work as a software engineer part time. What's your favourite bible passage & why? I love Phillipians 4v7-8. Knowing God's peace is standing Guard for those who Belong to Christ is very comforting. How do you keep your eyes fixed on Jesus? My Bible Study group helps me keep my eyes fixed on Jesus, studying the word of God, and support

I've been an over-thinker for as long as I could – well – think. My brain is often whirring, whirring... full of possibilities, problems, what-ifs, and worst-case scenarios. You'll often find me weighing up pros and cons, highs and lows, analysing 'life' from a subjective – then an objective – perspective – and writing lists of ways to tackle everything from the housework to my current relationship crisis. My brain just won't stop taking trips to different destinations – and

I was a young teenager when I first shaved my legs. I was the last of my friends to do it, and it felt like a rite of passage. Grown up women were hairy, grown up women shaved their legs. It didn’t occur to me to ask what Jesus thought of shaving your legs. When I got married I remember asking my husband what he preferred. He’d made some comment about armpit hair that my sisters had teased him mercilessly about, but he was a bit befuddled by my question: adult women have hair