Christian Living / Family / Rowland
by Toni Rowland · Published August 30, 2018 · Last modified August 28, 2018
The Australian writer and gender activist GD Anderson observed of that empowerment: “Feminism isn’t about making women stronger. Women are already strong. It’s about changing the way the world perceives that strength.”
Church / Faith Life / Family / Rowland
by Toni Rowland · Published July 7, 2018 · Last modified July 6, 2018
Participating in a conference of the Department of Social Development was enlightening and for me also affirming. I know that those in the DSD Family Directorate and the family services forum understand and base their...
Christian Leadership / Christian Living / Family / Mary / Rowland
by Toni Rowland · Published May 8, 2018 · Last modified May 6, 2018
Ideally two parents belong together, ideally too a dad and a mom. But this is not necessarily the case today as more children are being brought up by single moms than in two-parent families.
Christian Living / Family / Holy Spirit / Human Rights / Rowland
by Toni Rowland · Published March 17, 2018 · Last modified March 16, 2018
Rights and responsibilities balance one another out, but when it comes to rights and respect, which comes first? Do rights flow from respect, or do rights lead to respect, or both?
Christmas may be over, but before we know it, it’ll again be Advent and Christmas again. And then it will be good to remember that the 12 Days of Christmas are those after the feast of the Nativity, not before.
Advent / Christian Living / Christmas / Rowland
by Toni Rowland · Published December 13, 2017 · Last modified December 12, 2017
No doubt traditions at Christmas, like much else in life, has changed. My own childhood memories are of setting up our family crib, without the baby until Christmas night of course, as well as music and singing.
Do you and I feel at peace with those we have loved and who have died? What about us who are left behind after a death or a separation or divorce?
Christian Living / Family / lay ministry / Rowland
by Toni Rowland · Published October 22, 2017 · Last modified October 19, 2017
I am a lay person involved in ministry, aware of the role of the laity in the temporal domain. This self-description sometimes clarifies the idea of mission for me and at others totally confuses it
by Toni Rowland · Published September 16, 2017 · Last modified September 15, 2017
‘Where on earth did you come from and where in heaven do you think you’re going?” This question is the core of a little booklet with the title “Our Catholic Heritage”, produced by MARFAM some 15 years ago. These questions are still as relevant but the situations of families and of our countries and our world are changing continually.
Toni Rowland examines women ‘s roles past and present – why they changed and why they are not perfect right now When we chose “Gender Justice” as Marfam’s family theme for August, I suppose...
As the Church celebrates the feast of the grandparents of Jesus this month, we’ve chosen that aspect of family life for reflection in July. Some introductory thoughts: “Grandparents, as they grow older, may have...
While the overall family theme for the year is “Families Walk the Talk” and for May it was “Parents Walk the Talk”, for June it’s the other parts of the Micah slogan, which is...
