The feminine mistake: the criminalisation of masculinity To open the door or not to open the door – for a lot of men that really is the question. Personally I love it when men open the door for me and that’s not just because I have small children and I’m usually struggling to push an […]
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Three years ago I wanted to prepare my children, the eldest then 3 and a half, spiritually for Christmas and to offset the secular messages that bombarded them from well, September onwards. Eventually I decided to take a different approach to the Advent calendars that offered a chocolate or a lolly for each day of
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This is a quick and simple Bible craft activity using bits and pieces from around the house. The best thing is that Jonah actually fits inside the whale! What you’ll need: a rectangular tea bag box, grey and pink paint, grey card or paper, a toilet roll and scraps of patterned or coloured paper, pipe
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Our eldest child is five and a half and he has never received a present from Santa Claus on Christmas Eve, neither have our subsequent children. Early on in our marriage my husband and I each voiced our disapproval of the commercialisation and secularisation of Christmas and Santa Claus particularly. We wanted to keep our
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Part 3: Death of the old feminist series The image of a well educated and professional businesswomen juggling her career and family and managing to have dinner on the table when her husband gets home from work is that unattainable myth that the feminists led us to believe we could achieve. However, as most women
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Part 2: Death of the old feminist series If there were a competition to find the institution most despised by feminists, surely first prize would be awarded to the Catholic Church. As far as institutions go, we are patriarchal, that is we consider God as our father and our clergy are all male. We renounce
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Part 1: Death of the old feminist series Feminism has long stood out as the champion of women’s causes. From the Suffragettes, to the emancipation of women and their right to vote, feminism fought for the equal dignity and opportunity of all women. So how then, did this rather noble cause turn into a movement
Your guide to the four temperaments We each experience things differently. Our reactions to the same series of events may be completely the opposite to that of the person next to us. This difference in reactions is what we define as temperaments. ‘The basic difference between each is the amount of time it takes one
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1. Your sister and her husband have announced that they’re pregnant, you: a. Squeal with excitement and spend the next day shopping for baby things b. Congratulate them and offer some practical advice c. Kiss and hug the couple then move on to the next conversation d. Congratulate them and later mull over the blessing
Love. As a concept it is much talked about, misunderstood and desired. We all want it, but at the same time, we don’t really seem to know what it is, and that’s partly to do with our sinful nature. Sin distorts of views on love. Whenever we presume to know better than God we are
