Dove’s Campaign for Real Beauty has been praised by many women for its positive and healthy portrayal of female bodies, beauty and self image.
But is the campaign a hypocritical marketing ploy? Unilever – the company that manufactures the Dove brand – are also the owners of Lynx, a mens’ deoderant that freely makes use [...]

On the go at the moment:
Novel: About a Boy, Nick Hornby.
Bible: Numbers, 1 Timothy, Ephesians.
College Stuff: Any paper on ‘head’ and ‘body’ in Ephesians that I can get my hands on, for an essay due in a fortnight. Today I read some fresh perspectives from Sarah Sumner’s Men and Women in the Church, some of [...]

Every husband has different wonderful qualities, but here’s why I love mine:
1. He is relational and great with women without even trying to be. Thank God for older sisters, is all I can say.2. He’s really good at fixing things. When something breaks, I know he’ll be able to put it back together, from phones [...]

Recently we’ve received some generous gifts and provision that I am thankful to God for.
Last week, totally out of the blue, some dear friends gave us vouchers for groceries. It came at just the right time and was for a particularly generous amount. On top of that, today we were given a mobile phone to [...]

1. Pop-up ads. grrrrr.2. The homepage on smh.com currently focuses on three things: sex, crime and celebrities. Better yet when they can combine these three things in various combinations (sex crimes, celebrity crimes, sex and celebrities).3. A man who was formerly a woman before his/her sex-change operation falling pregnant is not breaking news.4. It seems [...]

Hope everyone has had a great Easter long weekend. Sam and I did, hence this self-indulgent post about what we got up to.
On Friday we slept in and had our friends Matt and Kate over for afternoon tea/dinner and a quirky DVD called Waitress which had me thinking about chocolate pies and diners all weekend.
Saturday [...]

There is a lot of discussion on the web about the value of learning Biblical languages. I haven’t got involved at the original post, but here’s my first thoughts.
1. Languages aren’t always as hard as people make them out to be. Sometimes the ‘aura’ surrounding something foreign makes it look much harder than it really [...]

Not my fault.
A lady ran into me on my way home this afternoon. She changed lanes without looking. A bit inconvenient really. Easter isn’t the best time to get things repaired, and I’m going away on mission after Easter, and I’m not keen to leave Soph here without a car. Grrr.

Here’s five quotes from Mr Spurgeon:

“The devil is a greater scholar than you and a nimbler disputant.”
“Do not run about inviting yourselves to preach here and there; be more concerned about your ability than your opportunity, and more earnest about your walk with God than about either.”
“The sensible minister will be particularly gentle in argument.”
“Whatever [...]