The Problem with Perfection
Do you try your best but your best never seems good enough? You strive to be the ultimate friend, wife, mother, sister, daughter,...
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Jillian Reay-Smith
Oct 23, 2017
Still and Eager
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...
Moyra Dale
Oct 20, 2017
Women's Shame – 3: Menstruation
The previous two posts discussed shame ascribed to women, and embodied in women’s bodies. Jesus’ interaction with women who carried...
Moyra Dale
Oct 19, 2017
Women's Shame – 2: Embodied
In the last post we discussed how shame (and blame) is often ascribed more to women, including in situations of crisis or violence. ...
Erica Hamence
Oct 18, 2017
How to process and pray through your grief and anger
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...
Megan Powell du Toit
Oct 18, 2017
#metoo: when women are prey
(In my discussion I am centring on the primary dynamic of men as the perpetrators and women as the victims, but please understand that...
Moyra Dale
Oct 18, 2017
Women's Shame Part 1: Ascribed
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...
Megan Powell du Toit
Oct 13, 2017
Joy unerasable
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...
Jillian Reay-Smith
Oct 11, 2017
Be a Martha
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...
Laura Tharion
Oct 5, 2017
Don't Get Married
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...
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