Author Archives: Laura Beimers

Laura Beimers

Part way through her training to be a midwife, Laura enjoys pondering women’s health and life experiences, the liturgical year, and alternative forms of prayer. At most points in time you will find books written by Henri Nouwen, Thomas Merton and Rowland Croucher on her beside table, though she also reads a lot of feminist works. If she ever stops procrastinating she’s hoping to learn how to create henna body art rather than daydreaming about it. Otherwise she’s pretty ordinary and sells hiking shoes to get by.

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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failing sunday school

Sam is a pranic healer, studying to be a naturopath, and has some church background. Whenever I take a casual shift at work with Sam, conversations tend to run down wildly complex and thought provoking paths. Amidst my questions about pranic healing, chakras, auras and enery, and his about church, Jesus, how I view God [...]

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