Tomorrow with my Year 12s, we'll spend a good deal of the English lesson doing an educational drama activity. Ye olde plot summary freeze frames. An oldie but a goodie, as they say. There are a number of reason for this. The first one being, I know that not all of them have read the …
Bugbear #3 is again related to being a woman in the Church – because I am one. On the lighter side, this bugbear could be considered unfair laziness. On the darker side, depending on the frequency and tasks, it could amount to spiritual and emotional abuse. Simone de Beauvoir’s first autobiographical work (which I have …
When I decided to do three posts on bugbears, I wasn’t planning to make the majority of them gender related. But I am. I realise that any male who attends Church may read these posts and think that one of his Church bugbears is that there’s so many whinging women about the place (only partially …
A weekend in December has come and gone and of course, I spent some of it in a shopping centre. 'Tis par for the course at this time of year. As I drove into the local shopping centre I encountered the usual message on the boom gate, "A place to reclaim yourself". Now, I think …