Local churches don’t need more people to come along to save them. They have the task of sharing with others about the one who has already saved them. From Sarah Condon: The fact of the matter is that most of our ideas about how to fix the church are terrible, my own included. We over-exaggerate …

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Though parenting young children can be the most demanding of seasons in a person’s life, it is also a time that our minds return to with an increasing fondness as the years pass. Sarah Condon writes an essay on The Work Of Love which is parenting: It is hard to recognise that you are in …

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From Sarah Condon’s book Churchy. Everyone has wounds from childhood that will follow us into the grave. Christianity is not a magic potion to make our pain vanish. but it will tell you to whom you belong. That is the best way I can describe “putting on the armor of Christ” (Ephesians 6:11) We are …

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