Alison Sherrington
Alison J. Sherrington has degrees in Arts and Theology and has written the books Word and Spirit and True Womanhood.
Her experience includes secondary school teaching, hospital chaplaincy, and conducting seminars in churches. She founded Philip House, an interdenominational women’s organisation aiming to mobilise Christian women to be available to the Lord and to use their gifts to proclaim God’s word. Single dedicated women may join a small Philip House community for that purpose.
Alison’s background is Presbyterian and Anglican, and she now worships at Encounter Church (formerly Intenciti Church), Wynnum West, Brisbane.
Articles by Alison Sherrington:
4 April 2025
11.5 MINS
Particularly from about the middle of the nineteenth century, God has used various remarkable women in ministry, in ways that may seem to break New Testament guidelines. We are living in a very different culture from that of the first century.
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2 April 2025
10.4 MINS
There are at least four biblical reasons why women need not feel that it is overwhelmingly “a man’s world”. The most important reason is that Scripture as a whole teaches that everyone needs to submit primarily to God Himself, rather than to any lesser authority.
