Lifestory: Bill McCartney, legendary US football coach who founded Promise Keepers, dies at 84

BOB SMIETANA, of Religion News Service, reports that a religious conversion in his 30s helped inspire McCartney to found Promise Keepers, which drew millions of men to events in the early 1990s….
Essay: How Trump’s victory could accelerate women’s departure from evangelicalism

KATELYN BEATY says, in an article first published on Religion News Service, evangelical Christian pastors looking to mimic Trump’s appeals to young men will only drive the gender gap in the church further apart…
Essay: Domestic violence – we need to be telling a better story

PAUL CLARK says it’s time we stopped buying into “the master-servant lie” when it comes to relationships…
Discerning the call: In Catholic men’s religious orders, diversity brings new opportunities – and occasional friction

ELIZABETH E EVANS, of Religion News Service, reports on how religious communities are exploring different ways to mentor and walk alongside young men as they discern their calling…
Men and women

The male treatment of women has been in the news for all the wrong reasons lately, and sometimes the church has been complicit in that. PICTURE: Tim Mossholder/Unsplash The Bible starts and finishes it’s discussion of males and females like this… “So God created humanity in his own image, in the image of God he created […]
Essay: The synod, the Pope and the ordination of women

PHYLLIS ZAGANO, in an article first published on Religion News Service, says allowing women only in management and not in ministry ignores church history…
Essay: Albania’s ghost towns – the crisis that caused the exodus

ANDI HOXHAJ, a lecturer in European Union law at UCL in London, explores – in article first published on The Conversation, why Albania is seeing a “constant exodus” of its citizens…
Moscow barbers describe fight for survival as mobilisation cuts staff and customers

Moscow, Russia Reuters Faced with a sharp drop in clients since Russia began mobilising men to fight in Ukraine, Moscow barber Artemiy Zolotorevsky is learning to cut women’s hair to keep his business afloat. With hundreds of thousands of men having joined the army or fled Russia in the last month, barbershops around Moscow are […]
Ukraine conflict: More Russian men look to avoid military service, some lawyers and rights groups say

Reuters correspondents report on claims an increased number of young Russian men are looking to avoid the country’s mandatory military service amid the ongoing war in Ukraine in what illustrates the ambivalence in Russian society to the conflict…
Measuring equality

I’m a huge believer in equality between the sexes – in the beginning God created us male and female in His image; as Jesus and the apostles declared – females are coheirs and co-workers in the Kingdom. PICTURE: Eddi Aguirre/Unsplash One of the mistakes with our modern attempts at equality is that we determine equality based on […]