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  • 5 Dec 2011
    WCC workshop explores 'transformative masculinities'

    This culture of violence against women has been strongly challenged in a World Council of Churches workshop on “transformative masculinities”.

  • 27 Jan 2011
    Kicking sexism out of football

    Even more depressing than the puerile, bigoted and deeply unfunny 'banter' that got Sky TV presenters Andy Gray and Richard Keys into hot water over their comments about referee Sian Massey, is the number of otherwise decent people who are feebly trying to excuse it.

  • 15 Oct 2009
    The "white working class" aren't racists

    The government's initiative for the "white working class" uses a loaded phrase and deflects attention from the real division in British society - between the very rich and the rest of us.

  • 26 Dec 2007
    Central American Anabaptist Women Theologians tackle domestic violence

    Domestic violence and what the church needs to do to respond to this problem topped the agenda for the recent second gathering of Central American Anabaptist Women Theologians.

  • 22 Oct 2007
    Women - equal but different?

    The Anglican Archbishop of Sydney has set out his view of women as 'equal but different'. Savi Hensman traces the patriarchal assumptions behind this position, and questions its claims to biblical authority.

  • 8 Apr 2007
    Welsh leader says Gospel challenges racism, militarism, nationalism, sexism and poverty

    The head of the Anglican Church in Wales, Dr Barry Morgan, says that the Easter Gospel means “joining in God’s recreation of the world”. In addition to global injustice and violence, he highlights the suffering of women and gay people in the church.