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"Put away the shopping cart and pick up a shovel" - who takes responsibility...
What would you say would be a really good reason for leaving a church? Pastor and blogger Aaron Loy* has five reasons he thinks are really bad, but I don't think I agree with him.No doubt, as a pastor...
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I'm reviving my weekly-ish round-up of things worth reading! Black Women and The 41st Anniversary of Roe v. Wade: Thoughts About Reproductive Justice - Gradient Lair"While some women are fighting not...
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Ann Lovett: Silence that will never be broken - Caroline O’Doherty "Everyone wanted to know how a girl from a family of nine siblings in a town of barely a 1,000 people could have carried a baby to...
View ArticleThe problem with ideological purity
If you've ever been part of one of those conversations where someone's having a bit of a moan about their church, you know you can always count on someone to chime in saying "There's no such thing as...
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Book review - Women in Waiting: prejudice at the heart of the church
Those of you following the progress of legislation concerning women bishops will know that these are exciting times. After a disappointing vote in 2012, many are feeling more optimistic about the...
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Rereading the second wave - Susan Brownmiller
“I can attest that in New York City during the late sixties and early seventies, nothing was more exciting, or more intellectually stimulating, than to sit in a room with a bunch of women who were...
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Kirstie Allsopp, classism, and a distinct lack of choice
It was obvious what was going to happen yesterday when the media started putting its own spin on Kirstie Allsopp's comments made in an interview with Bryony Gordon for the Telegraph, coming up with...
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#FaithFeminisms - Where we've come from vs where we must go
Reading so many stories of women coming to find their feminism alongside, or as part of, their faith this week made me realise the details of how it happened for me had become slightly hazy. I've told...
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On equality and power: a post about a post
This is a post about a post. It is unfortunate; as combative blogging is somewhat looked down upon by much of the Christian blogosphere these days. But if this post makes people disappointed, or...
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Feminist t-shirts, call-outs and commodification
At the beginning of the year I made a resolution of sorts, to distance myself from the sort of feminism that only actually mentions a feminist campaign or organisation when it's tearing it down....
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The basic bitch: a lifelong struggle with relating to Generic Womanhood
IIn 1999, I smugly recorded in my diary that on non-uniform day at school, I'd been one of only two girls in my form not to wear head to toe sports brands. Aged 14, my favourite outfit consisted of...
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2014: A recap on those resolutions
Happy New Year! At the beginning of 2014 I overhauled the look and feel of this blog, and resolved to be a bit 'better' at posting. Last year, I managed a whole 12 posts. I didn't write about nearly as...
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'You can't be what you can't see' - or why gender parity at conferences matters
In 2011, Jennifer Siebel Newsom's documentary Miss Representationcaptured the imagination of those who are passionate about seeing girls and women reach their full potential. Despite the advances made...
View ArticleThe nagging wife: symptom or cause?
The 'nagging wife' is a centuries-old stereotype that refuses to die. She's the subject of eye-rolling banter between men, the warning from the pulpit and the marriage guidance book, the defence of...
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Searching for Sunday: motherhood, guilt and disillusionment
via Wikimedia CommonsI spent my teenage years dedicated to the music department at my Fenland comprehensive school. Choir, orchestra, string quartet, vocal ensemble, recorder group. Local music...
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Theological conferences and inclusivity: a conversation
Earlier this week I received a comment on a post written four years ago - part of a conversation that sparked a huge debate and, I believe, was a catalyst for a strengthening of women's voices in the...
View ArticleThree conclusions from 2015, a year of shifting faith
Much to think about #outofsortsbookA photo posted by Hannah Elizabeth Rose Mudge (@boudledidge) on Dec 22, 2015 at 2:34pm PSTI'm not particularly proud of quite a few of the blog posts I've written...
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Three years of Project 3:28
This week, the Project 3:28 report on the numbers of men and women speaking at Christian conferences and events in 2015 was released - the third annual report produced since a small group of people got...
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Scripted vulnerability
Everything bad that happens to you doesn’t have to be a teachable moment. It’s probably a product of the boom in confessional journalism and its Christian equivalent, the storytelling boom. We’re all...
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I was chatting to a friend on Twitter the other day about my post on the script we use when we do vulnerability online and we ended up talking about writing in general. I mentioned that these days, I...
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For Momentum, as it comes to an end
It was recently announced that this year's Momentum festival would be the last, with Soul Survivor planning a new festival for 2017.Thanks, Momentum, that the year I came feeling totally lost and...
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Conversations around investment in women in ministry: do they speak to the UK...
Martin Saunders wrote for Christian Today recently about the experience of attending a conference of the UK's most influential church leaders and their teams, only to realise that "Ninety per cent of...
View ArticleThe power of J John's anonymous fellowships
In the summer of 2004, when I was 19 years old, I was just one of a crowd of young people who flocked to St Paul's Cathedral one evening to hear J John preach on the ten commandments. I was attending...
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On being one of the #hiddenhalf
I"Some professionals just ask are you coping, are you OK? And think that is all they need to ask but this is a very closed question and too easy for a woman just to say yes when she could be crying out...
View ArticleTen years of feminist activism
I haven’t blogged for a long time because I was pregnant and then I had a baby and young babies take up all your time and energy. I keep thinking that I miss blogging as it was, before ‘influencers’...
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