All posts by Hannah Malcolm

Hannah resents the notion of summing herself up in 50 words, and refuses to do so, thus revealing more of her character than 50 words ever could. Vive la révolution. On the other hand, the fact that this bio is precisely 50 words long indicates certain obsessive, anal tendencies which

Thanksgiving: How not to give thanks

// Three things we don’t do when someone gives us something

Written by Hannah Malcolm

Conservative? Or sexist?

//  This week I preached my first ever sermon...

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Setting the Barlow: what charity really looks like

// "All of us live in a state of responsibility, whether we want to admit it or not – we are...

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Calvary: An insight into the very worst humans can offer

// "The audience, like the priest in the confessional, is forced to endure an insight into the very worst that humans...

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Doing relationships badly

// "You know what relationships aren’t supposed to be? An exercise in working out who is ‘best’ for you. "You know...

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5 thoughts on women in church leadership

// "All of you – please, please, please be nice when you talk about this. I don't care how wrong you...

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Things I wish I knew

// I might have to spend most of the rest of my life in this state of non-omniscience.

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An open letter to youth workers

// "Please, youth worker, take what you do seriously. It is so easy to become disheartened or complacent."

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How to be a Christian Woman

// "And above all, don’t worry. Stop feeling guilty. God loves you just as you are."

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10 places to look for God this year

// "Look for God in the fear of the Syrian refugee, the desperation of the Filippino family, the anger and pain...

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God: He Who Must Not Be Named

// "When you call this being ‘God’, do you mean a vague deity who grants wishes if you’re good, and who...

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Testimony of a failed agnostic

// Its astounding reality bursts out of the manger scene, triumphantly calling from the empty cross on the altar.

Written by Hannah Malcolm