How to Make ‘Sacrifices of Love’
Someone said to me the other day that your Lenten sacrifice should be your secret with God. That sounds fine, to a point. I also know that...
Christian Living / Church / Family / Lent / Rowland
by Toni Rowland · Published March 30, 2019 · Last modified March 29, 2019
Someone said to me the other day that your Lenten sacrifice should be your secret with God. That sounds fine, to a point. I also know that...
by Toni Rowland · Published February 1, 2019 · Last modified January 31, 2019
It’s quite a number of years now that I have been submitting this column under the heading “Family Friendly”. Apart from the feedback I get from time...
This will be the last of my columns for 2018, a journey that has attempted to “Catholicise” the concept of ubuntu. At a conference early in the...
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...
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.
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
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