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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There’s a world of difference between feeling bad and being sorry. A marker of that difference is whether the response to your wrongdoing is about managing the situation or seeking mercy. Sarah Condon mentions the example of Judas: This is where we learn the full meaning of what Judas has to teach us, one that’s …

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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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