

Tania Harris
Why Women Need to Learn in Quietness and Submission
Not every Christian believes that I should be leading a ministry or that I should even be an ordained pastor. The church I grew up in...


Laura Tharion
Always be a Martha
I love Martha. I visit her story again and again to draw from her spunk and strength as a sister in Christ. Yet all too often I see her...


Jill Firth
Reading between the lines: Jesus appearing to women
Those women may just have been lucky to get the resurrection news from the angel/s at the tomb, as they got to the tomb before the men....


Jean Thompson
A Time to Weep
Airliner crashes, weather-related disasters, drought and flooding on an unprecedented scale, political turmoil, prolonged and bloody...


Tamie Davis
Let Tamar be silenced no longer
The rape of Tamar by her half-brother Amnon in 2 Samuel 13 is horrific, and it is made even more so by the multiple points in the story...


Tamie Davis
Why David and Bathsheba is not about adultery
A friend of mine said to me the other day that she feels sad for Bathsheba, that her name is forever associated with adultery, while...


Megan Powell du Toit
Godspeed: what happens when women read the Word
image courtesy of Hulu A recap: The Handmaid’s Tale is set in a dystopian America, in which a fundamentalist patriarchal cult has taken...


Louisa Macourt
Dear Church
Dear Church, we are letting down the body of Christ when we suppress, silence and minimise the women in our church. Dear Church, this...


Laura Tharion
Faith Personified
“Tell me a fact and I’ll learn. Tell me a truth and I’ll believe. But tell me a story and it will live in my heart forever,” so speaks an...


Fiona Isaacs
Press for Progress
My hackles always rise a little when people make statements about “what the Bible says about women” because (at least from my reading)...