GO AND SIN NO MORE – gender and power issues are with us still
I was given Helen Garner’s book about male privilege, The First Stone: Some questions about sex and power, as a Mother's Day present. Sweet irony! So I took it to...
Part Four – Liz on working together in ministry
Trevor and Liz Sykes tell their story of working together in marriage and in the church (in four parts). Sometimes a woman is accepted in her church because she is “the woman we know”. This is the story of how Liz came to be accepted as a pastor alongside her husband...
Part Three – Trevor’s journey into shared Christian ministry.
Liz and Trevor Sykes tell their story of working together in marriage and in the church (in four parts). Part Three – Trevor’s journey into shared Christian ministry. After 3 years at Kenmore Christian College, we were found ourselves struggling financially and in...
Part Two – Liz’s journey to mutuality in marriage
Liz and Trevor Sykes tell their story of working together in marriage and in the church (in four parts). Part Two – Liz’s journey to mutuality in marriage Like Trevor I am delighted to contribute these posts about our life together, firstly as a couple and then in our...
Part One – Trevor’s journey to faith
Liz and Trevor Sykes tell their story of working together in marriage and in the church (in four parts). Trevor explains how his early attitudes to marriage and women were formed in his disrupted family life and years in the navy. My parents separated when I was 2 and...
So would I change my name if I was marrying now? asks Jennifer Turner
I took my husband’s surname when we married many years ago. So much has changed in our social world and someone asked me this International Women’s Day if I would do that now. It has made me think some more about the issue of personal identity and how it is connected...
Nicki Bowles- The Privilege of Pastoring Together– A Mutual Call to Surrender.
As I sit and reflect on my own call to pastoring, I am confronted not only by the immense privilege it has been to serve the Church of Jesus Christ in ministry, but also how difficult it has been in many ways. For the past five years, God has taken me on a confronting...
Breaking Down Those Walls
By Rev Dr Jennifer Turner OAM There are three fundamental divisions between people that, because of sin, cause hostility and hurt: race, status, and gender (cf. Galatians 3:28). Jesus came to break down these barriers, not to make all people alike, but to remove...
Jesus and the Women of the New Testament
There is a lie that there is something wrong with women, even though Genesis tells us that both women and men are wonderfully made by a God who delights in us. The lie of our inadequacy, our limitations, goes deep but Brené Brown suggests pushing back against lies that shame us. One way to do that is to take a good long look at Jesus and his interactions with women. He models how women should be viewed. Dare we hold on to an attitude so different from that of Jesus?
Welcome to The Together Project
Hi and welcome to The Together Project! We are a non-profit, inter-denominational Christian ministry based in Perth, Western Australia. We provide information, resources, and inspiration to help Christians to confidently articulate an intelligent, courageous, and...
