Evangelical Futures: How do we survive as evangelicals today?
Kirsten Birkett
What are we to say in the face of such a confusing and violent world? Read the Bible? Pray more? These are always necessary and always true, but can anything else be said to the point?
It was looking at Romans 12 recently in church that my thoughts coalesced.
The Essence of Feminism
Kirsten Birkett
Feminism is a profoundly moralistic movement.
It is a system of ideas that not only states or argues for certain items of knowledge, or facts, but gives guidelines as to how to live.
Although this may seem strange in our post-modern world where no one is supposed to tell us how we 'ought' to live, feminism is strongly directive as to what we ought to do. Feminism is a way of life, a way of making decisions, something that will influence life choices and affect the basic values on which individual lives and society is run. In other words, it is a highly moral ideology.
Why is modern storytelling so disappointing?
Recently, I started reading three new novels.
One of them I came across on a table in Waterstones, a new historical novel set in early medieval England, a period I’m very interested in. The cover is beautiful and the back cover is full of commendations for this wonderful new work of literature, praising not just its good writing but its insight and depth. Good to look at, something that would impart wisdom. I paid out my valuable money for it.