Here is a new podcast (vidcast), featuring my daughter Jem and I discussing her decision to transition as she prepares to begin hormone therapy. More episodes to follow. Podcast available: spotify: click here Google pod: click here
Here is a new podcast (vidcast), featuring my daughter Jem and I discussing her decision to transition as she prepares to begin hormone therapy. More episodes to follow. Podcast available: spotify: click here Google pod: click here
Well, I have capitulated to the trend and gotten myself a tattoo. I know they’re becoming so common as to be passe’, but I enjoyed the process nevertheless. If you haven’t guessed, it’s a rendering of Mary (the mother). I’m…
This week, ABC television screened a two-part documentary by Sarah Ferguson, Hitting Home, available via catch up on ABC I view. The documentary tells the stories – and shows the bruised faces and bodies – of beaten up women, and…
In my previous blog about John Piper’s so-called complementarianism, the key issue at stake was assumptions about sex and gender roles. Complementarians assume that human relationships are (or should be) shaped by a binary structure. According to Piper and Gruden…
A few years ago, in Raising Women Leaders (co-edited with Jacqui Grey), I wrote a chapter entitled “Sexism and the Demonic in Church Life and Mission.” The chapter challenged the logic of so-called complementarianism, which claims that men and women…
Elly and I were on the train headed to the city when five half drunk middle-aged men wearing blue joined our carriage; obviously off to the rugby final, Waratah supporters hoping for the club’s first premiership. With the joy of…
My father’s Aunty Grace (Grace Hunter) turned 100 last Saturday (1o June). Who would have imagined, in 1910, that a mere century later she would receive congratulations from: Queen Victoria Julia Gillard (Prime Minister) Kristina Keneally (NSW Premier) Ms Quentin…
Jacqui Grey and I attended the Christians for Biblical Equality conference in Melbourne last weekend. An excellent paper was presented by Denise Cooper, who answered to the question, “Are Women More Prone to Error?” The Paper responds to the assertion…