Comments on: Mission is a lot like midwifery https://mikefrost.net/mission-lot-like-midwifery/ AUTHOR | SPEAKER | MISSIOLOGIST | AGITATOR Thu, 05 Oct 2017 03:54:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 By: Hannah https://mikefrost.net/mission-lot-like-midwifery/#comment-609 Fri, 24 Mar 2017 22:31:33 +0000 https://mikefrost.net/?p=26779#comment-609 I really like this, great metaphor and article.

However I always get sick of hearing the negative jabs at the intervention/assisted births, with a romantisised view of “natural” unassisted births. Considering 800 women die each day in pregnancy and childbirth (which is usually preventable), and “natural” birth is very very very painful (and all that pain could be prevented), i can only think this attitude stems from being antifemale.

My c section birth was as personal, messy and exciting as my vaginal one, thank you very much!

]]> By: Angelo Giovas https://mikefrost.net/mission-lot-like-midwifery/#comment-607 Thu, 23 Mar 2017 23:47:00 +0000 https://mikefrost.net/?p=26779#comment-607 Anyone who has used other than a militaristic paradigm would, I think, agree with you that in today’s world (if you are still using it) that paradigm isn’t the most appropriate one generally.
There’s a lot to like in the midwife paradigm and it has many congruencies with the ‘Ambassador’ paradigm used in the New Testament.
I think ambassador one suits the predicament of the church across the global board better.
Even so there are some aspects worth taking on board.

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