I had been up for over an hour this morning before it registered with me that it is International Womens’ Day, but some people are not so lax, and I had an email from commenter Alan in my inbox by the time that I got to work. I am sure that Alan wouldn’t mind […]

Steve Taylor at Emerging Kiwi has posted a podcast interview with Jenny McIntosh from Spirited Exchanges.
It raises three issues in regard to women and the emerging church:
“We identify three ways in which the emerging church can exclude women;
- in the way the Bible is used
- in not seeking representation in speaking and in leadership
- in […]

So I went to the Forge summit on Sunday for a day and was particularly interested in one of the discussion points that was ongoing - the need to give female missional leaders a higher profile. To be truthful, I found the day a little “blokey” but struggled to explain what I meant by […]

Still digesting the women in leadership essay - this is a good bit too:
The post-modern Church looks for small group experiences, for mission projects close at home, for leadership that dresses in casual clothes and knows how to build teams rather than committees. The second-reformation churches are less inclined to send dollars to a […]

The ‘coming out of the closet’ thread is still bubbling away.. over 100 comments now. This is an interesting essay on the topic by Linda McKinnish Bridges, Professor of New Testament and Greek, Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond, Richmond, Virginia.
I thought this bit was particularly good:
The “Lydia Phase” in the New Testament: From […]

There has been a little bit of discussion around the traps about the idea of women in ministry (see here and here and here and here for a start) and it has prompted me to come out of the closet.

I am pulling together a couple of disparate strands of thought here, so bear with me. I was reading Future Margins’ post on why people blog - is it ego, antidepersonalisation, sharing or wannabe writers?
At the same time I was interested in darren’s research into gender balance in the Christian world. My initial […]