All posts by Natalie Collins

Natalie Collins set up Spark and is an independent consultant working to prevent and respond to violence against women and enable others to do the same. She is also the Creator of DAY (www.dayprogramme.org), an innovative youth domestic abuse education programme. She speaks and trains on understanding and ending domestic abuse and other gender related issues nationally and internationally.

Women need to talk, men need to ejaculate?

// "We have a God who made women and men with the capacity to experience beautiful, creative, mind-blowing sex.  But that...

Written by Natalie Collins

50 shades of abuse

// "People would like to think domestic abuse is something “over there” affecting “those people”. But it’s not."

Written by Natalie Collins

Are sins really forgiven?

// Just as Google will now be required to delete links, so we are taught that we should delete the hurt...

Written by Natalie Collins

Is Church an empowering place for women?

// "As girls we were told that our call is as mothers and wives, a call that is external to us,...

Written by Natalie Collins

Dot-to-dot

// Around the world, all day, every night, there are women, children and men being raped, degraded, forced into servitude.

Written by Natalie Collins

Who is Nigella’s neighbour?

// Recent photographs released which seem to depict the art collector Charles Saatchi strangling celebrity chef Nigella Lawson and pinching her...

Written by Natalie Collins

The Metaphorical moustache of leadership

// Celebrating International Women's Day

Written by Natalie Collins

Ticking boxes: confessions of a high achiever

// I fail at ticking the boxes of reading the Bible, praying and doing the church thing. As a high achiever,...

Written by Natalie Collins