by Australian Christian women. Since September 2015

Do you try your best but your best never seems good enough? You strive to be the ultimate friend, wife, mother, sister, daughter,...

There have been times in my life when I’ve needed a kick up the butt to get moving. My teenage years ring a bell - all those lazy...

The previous two posts discussed shame ascribed to women, and embodied in women’s bodies. Jesus’ interaction with women who carried...

In the last post we discussed how shame (and blame) is often ascribed more to women, including in situations of crisis or violence. ...

In a pattern that is right on the cusp of comical and depressing, yet again I had thought I was ok. I had been reading all of the stuff...

(In my discussion I am centring on the primary dynamic of men as the perpetrators and women as the victims, but please understand that...

It has been good to see further discussion in western journals and books on the subject of shame and honour in the past few years. We...

I got a tattoo on my wrist this year, of the word joy. I could tell the tattoo artist thought it was a boringly cheery middle-aged woman...

Martha, Martha, Martha. She gets a bad rap. She is perhaps most famous for the story told in Luke 10 of what happened when Jesus visited...

When I was fourteen, I took a friend to see Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo & Juliet. I had seen it before. She hadn’t. Entering the sunlight...