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Introduction:Changing
Women, Changing Worlds
Derek Poole
Comment
Ruth Hutchinson
From
the Directors
David McMillan
Changing
Women, Changing Worlds: The Question of Women
Fran Porter
Review...Delightfully
Subversive
Cheryl Reid
Review...Opportune
Linda McClaughlin
Faith
and Practice...Christine Bell
Ruth
Hutchinson
Antjie
Krog
Peter Stark
Review...Thought
Provoking
Myrtle Hill
Review...Smashing
Clerical Complacency
Malachi O'Doherty
CHANGING WOMEN,
CHANGING WORLDS
‘This
book is a brick through the stain glass window of clerical complacency…’
states Malachi O’Doherty of Dr. Fran Porter’s forthcoming publication
Changing Women, Changing Worlds. The book will be on general release
from mid May and in anticipation we invited Fran to give us an abridged
version of the opening chapter and a brief summary of the overall content.
We also asked the Rev Cheryl Reid, Linda McClaughlin, Myrtle Hill and
Malachi O’Doherty to review Fran’s work and their perceptive
comments provide both affirming and critical perspectives on Changing
Women, Changing Worlds.
Fran Porter’s research for this original book involved a series of in-depth interviews with seventy evangelical women about their lives, faith and work. The candour of their response and the writer’s astute commentary reveals the significant contribution women are making to church, community and politics in Northern Ireland. However, Changing Women, Changing Worlds not only affirms what women have achieved but also considers the implications of women’s increasing involvement in the world of work and church. Consequently the book explores important questions on the nature of participation, inclusion, difference, authority, domesticity etc. It asks how a redefining of these issues might influence the structures and practice of churches, evangelicalism and wider civic society. The author considers all of this in the context of a radical change in the position of women in society and the pervasive challenge to attitudes and practices that previously kept women in the background.
Changing Women, Changing Worlds is published by Blackstaff and will be available in mid May from all major book stores. Alternatively, a copy can be ordered from the ECONI office.
Also, in this issue of Lion and Lamb: Pastor David McMillan considers a few of David Trimble’s recent and controversial statements; Ruth Hutchinson’s interview with Christine Bell explores personal faith and the courts of law; Peter Stark, a South African Baptist Pastor reflects on the dilemma of reconciliation and a we have included a full draft of ECONI’s statement on the Weston Park Proposals in which we challenge the possibility of ‘amnesty’ the Government is proposing in this document.
As always - enjoy and be provoked.
Derek Poole - Editor
ECONI WELCOMES the submission of unsolicited articles, but does not guarantee publication, and manuscripts cannot be returned. Opinions expressed in the magazine are those of the contributors and do not necessarily reflect the views of ECONI. Permission to reprint any original article in Lion & Lamb should be sought from the Editor.
Editor
Derek Poole
Asst Editor Ruth Hutchinson
Design Colin Maguire
Cover Spring Graphics
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