How do you define youth? Is it an attitude? An age? A generation?
Often ‘yoof’s’ have a hopeful look in their eye. It’s a wide eyed demeanor, unsullied by disappointment or situations too difficult to easily categorize. Youth is still fresh and tender.
You can spy youth in the little kids who tear around fountains in their undies, tweens awkwardly tripping over themselves while smiling in their braces, the teenager looking scornfully at those who went before and plan how they’re like, totally going to do it differently and those in their twenties start building their new lives on their own on their first solo trips to Ikea.
Less obviously, you can also get a whiff of youth from the Grandma with the cheeky attitude, the Dad who gets down on the floor to play with his kids and when grown ups let their dignity drop for a brief moment to have some fun.
If we can identify and appreciate a young attitude maybe we’ll be able to do what the songs says and stay forever young.
My idea for an article about how the male brain works initially was a source of mirth for my female colleagues. “An oxymoron if I ever heard one” snorted one, which quickly gave way to widespread cackling from the office ladies. Interest was restored when I revealed that the male baby learns to recognize fear or anger in his Mother’s voice by seven months and can completely ignore her by 12 months.
Feminists have fought hard for their independence , not only for their own freedom but for their daughters to grow up as their own people. So what do you do, as a feminist, when your daughter wants to be a princess and insists on being rescued by a prince? Alison Atkinson-Phillips shares her breakfast play time with her daughter Mia, as she faced this dilemma.
The headline of a Melbourne newspaper last month trumpeted “Men lead, women obey?” It was a feature article exploring a growing backlash against women leading in some Australian churches.
The Uniting Church in Australia has ordained women for many years. Here in the Synod of Victoria and Tasmania we have a female Moderator. Can we afford to take this for granted, or do we need to remain ever vigilant. Perhaps, even becoming outspoken advocates in the wider church community in support of women as leaders – in the church, in the secular workplace and in the home?
I write as an Anglican, accepted into the Uniting Church fold, a woman, a mother and, increasingly, a feminist, deeply concerned about gender injustice in both our own culture and the wider world.
What do you get when you mix eclectic “grandma-style” furniture, grungy low lighting, affordable fair trade coffee, local artwork and live alternative music?
The answer is Midnite Café — a ministry “on the fringe” in Dubbo, which doesn’t have the traditional agenda of serving the community in the hope that people will come to church.
“The cafe is much more about the question of how the church can bring the kingdom of God to life for people, where people can engage with spiritual seeking on their own terms,” says Naomi Nash. The café was born out of her position as the Young Adults Worker for the Macquarie Darling Presbytery.
There is a lot of pressure on women. Pressure to succeed in all arenas of life simultaneously and look beautiful and effortless while doing it. But like a duck swimming in a pond, even the women who look serene on the surface are paddling like mad under the water line, just to stay afloat. Here we feature the private thoughts and anxieties of a 20 something female as she goes about her day.
Depictions of sexuality on film are everywhere, particularly so for women. Women with their mouths open drape themselves across billboards while heavily muscled men stare challengingly down the lens to sell products as innocuous as toothpaste. Sex sells.
While we can sometimes reach a consensus on how far is too far, there isn’t enough discussion on what we permit but may not feel comfortable with, what we approve of and what we wouldn’t want our children to see.
Refugees, boat people and population growth have hit the headlines today, taking us all back to the dark days of the 'Pacific Solution'. With all the hysteria about these 'boat people' it's hard to get some perspective on the issue. Click below to see a fascinating infographic created by Robert Corr, with each unit representative of 2000 people.
Old Spice have created the pitch of the year with their 'the man your man could smell like' commericials.They have also provided an interesting insight into the type of man that men are presumably happy to smell like and women are certainly happy to buy from. Funny, handsome, unabashedly masucline and non-threatening - behold, the Old Spice man. Click here to visit media and marketing site Mumbrella and read about the genius behind this campaign.
For some, ‘lucky’ wouldn’t be the first word to come to mind after having suffered the ravages of war-torn Iraq. Milad Yohana, an Iraqi-born Christian, knows all too well what such conditions can entail. Despite this, today, Milad and her family do indeed feel lucky.
By Amy Goodhew
The headline of a Melbourne newspaper last month trumpeted “Men lead, women obey?” It was a feature article exploring a growing backlash against women leading in some Australian churches.
What do you get when you mix eclectic “grandma-style” furniture, grungy low lighting, affordable fair trade coffee, local artwork and live alternative music?
For some, ‘lucky’ wouldn’t be the first word to come to mind after having suffered the ravages of war-torn Iraq. Milad Yohana, an Iraqi-born Christian, knows all too well what such conditions can entail. Despite this, today, Milad and her family do indeed feel lucky.
