From a Christian perspective, Rev Dr Treweek says sex only makes sense in the context of marriage — between a husband and wife.

y favourite moment of my favourite musical comes when Les Miserable’s protagonist breaks into his moment of existential crisis. “Who am I?”, he lyrically wails. As I read Julia Baird’s latest offering about the caricatured, oppressed, silenced and invisible women of the Sydney Anglican Diocese (“In praise of the oddities and outliers resisting bonkers fundamentalism in Sydney”, SMH Oct 26th), I found myself having my very own Jean Val Jean moment (though, sadly, without the accompanying symphony). Who am I? I’m an ordained member of the Sydney Anglican clergy. But I’m also a woman

As someone who lives by herself, I’m enjoying the fun new phenomena of virtual communal TV viewing. Admittedly that makes it sound far more technical and impressive an endeavour than it really is. Basically, I sit in my lounge room while some of my friends sit in their lounge rooms and ‘together’ we watch the same TV show whilst heckling and joking with one another via social media commentary.

Essays interacting with John Dickson’s "Hearing Her Voice"

I suspect that it is not often that you read a Christmas article based on the book of Revelation! But bear with me for just a moment, because I think the vision of Christmas future helps us better understand how family fits into the purpose of Christmas present.

Flourish. It’s the word of the age, isn’t it? Even though it’s an ancient concept (arguably traceable right back to Aristotle) recent years have witnessed a remarkable resurgence its popularity. This has been in no small part due to the emergence of Positive Psychology, a movement which seeks to study the factors that contribute to the ultimate “good life”.

One might well imagine that with all the books on singleness to be found on the shelves of Christian bookstores, we scarcely need another. Yet Sam Allberry’s 7 Myths about Singleness shows that we do. Far from being another self-helpesque book designed to equip unmarried Christians to somehow “eke out something just about tolerable” from their singleness (p. 12), 7 Myths about Singleness sets out to explore the Bible’s presentation of singleness as something infinitely more than tolerable. This is precisely what makes it such an important contribution to this topic.

Does the church have any idea how to treat single people?

Eternity’s With All Due Respect podcast recently welcomed Dani Treweek into the recording studio to help answer this loaded question. Hosts of With All Due Respect, Megan Powell du Toit and Michael Jensen, fired some informed questions at Dani.

The concept of home can be a difficult and even conflicting one for the single Christian. For us, home can be a real thing, but also not much more than an amorphous concept. It can be a place of authentic contentment and refuge, but also the location of heartbreaking loneliness and sorrow. It can be the context in which we excitedly explore our own sense of self-formation, but also a reminder that we are largely undertaking this task solo.