Monthly Archives: October 2007

why I’m a feminist

(Laura initially wrote this as a comment on “What Does Christian Feminism Look Like“, but I thought it deserved being highlighted as its own post - Geoff)
At the start of last year some of the units I took in my Midwifery degree required us to keep a reflective journal on various womens issues: feminism, [...]

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what does christian feminism look like?

The title already implies a point that I’m not really trying to make. It sounds from the implication of the title that I’m having trouble reconciling Christianity with feminism. The truth, I’m afraid is that I’m far more ignorant than that. I just don’t have a solid grasp on a) what feminism really means in [...]

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the cult of buying stuff

This post centres around an idea I heard Mark Sayers put forward, and Jason Clark is apparently investigating for his PhD (which means that if this triggers any interest in you, you would be well advised to check out his blog regularly). The central idea is that the strongest threat to Christianity in the western [...]

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discipleship dilemma

There seems to be a bit of a push in the blogs at the moment around re-thinking our model of what discipleship out to mean. From Jonathan Brink:
“But imagine for a second, after calling his disciples to follow him, he proceeded to invite them to come to the local synagogue on Sunday morning for a [...]

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the love conversation - pope Benny weighs in

Thanks to Gerry, I’ve had a read of Pope Benedict’s “Encyclical letter Deus Caritas Est of the supreme Pontiff Benedict XVI to the bishops, priests and deacons, men and women religious and all the lay faithful on Christian Love” (which was going to be the post title, but it might be a touch wordy). [...]

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