Practices that can oppress
One day I had a sore arm, and everyone suggested massage, so I went for a walk according to the directions given and ended up in someone's lounge room along…
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We say that a woman has forty souls’, said Gulzira with a smile, a young Kazakh shopkeeper at a big modern shopping centre who grew up in a village and…
read moreLearning to pray
It was hard to learn to pray. Before coming to Christ it was a set of words which I didn't understand and it was forbidden to translate it. I felt…
read moreLife Stages & Rites of Passage For Muslim Women
Everyone passes through life stages, some being common to men and women, and some gender specific. Life stages are also culturally defined. This short booklet brings together the learning of…
read moreThe Familiarity of Christmas?
The build-up to Christmas was there on public display inside and outside shopping centres and in individual shops. Lights and decorations. Santas, snowmen, Christmas trees, tinsel. Christmas carols—both traditional religious…
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