Online church is sometimes criticised for its lack of social presence – as being second-best to physical church as a way of gathering together. In this webinar, we hear from three theologians with different views on social presence and church community. Prof Deanna Thompson Dr Bex Lewis (me!) Kay Morgan-Gurr and Pastor V Teejay from Pretoria.
A one-day conference for Christians about male violence with a focus on domestic abuse and wider themes of #metoo and #churchtoo. This event also celebrates the launch of "Out Of Control", a new book by Gender Justice Specialist, Natalie Collins. Natalie says: "We have so many brilliant contributors! The plan for the day is to have TED style talks, which distill speakers' ideas into 15 or 20 minutes slots, with a panel for each set of speakers. …
I loved seeing this campaign on Facebook, although as always don't read below the line! So, I'm really excited to see a couple of initiatives from the church being launched today: Project 3:28 Database For years I've been asked to speak, or recommend other speakers for events, and we started off a simple Excel spreadsheet (not specifically for women). In the meantime Gathering of Women Leaders was continuing it's excellent work (next one 17th March,…
I've essentially collected most of my tweets, retweets and interactions from last Saturday (Featured image by Jez James Gondleton): Powered by Wakelet Powered by Wakelet
Read full blog post about why I am not a fan of giving up social media for Lent, or regarding it as a 'waste of time', when it's a strong tool for building relationships. <edit - November 2018 - the blog post appears to have been taken down, so content reproduced here): I wrote a piece for Christian Today last week, which reflected that according to OpenBible, social networking is the number one thing that people tweeted…
