Dear mum with that noisy kid in church
"I notice the wriggles and giggles, the crawling under the pews. I notice the growing pile of crumbs and wrappers."
Tag: Christian
Learning this as a newlywed saved my marriage
"As a 23-year-old woman, I’d never thought of marriage in those terms—but I soon discovered that he was right."
“My husband wasn’t even allowed to be there for the birth”
How I discovered a way to thrive and overcome the difficulties of motherhood after suffering a traumatic birth and postnatal depression.
“Every night as a baby, her hands would swell up and turn blue.”
Debbie Kraak shares how a simple prayer healed her baby daughter Bel Thomson’s swollen hands and changed the course of both their lives.
“The children’s hospital became our second home.”
When Rod McArdle's son, Brendan, was born in January 1991, he was almost too tiny to imagine, just a bare 618 grams.
Submit to your husband
Christianity is sometimes regarded as a patriarchal religion. Is there a place for feminists in a Christian home?
3 parenting facts you’d never think came from the Bible
The Bible may be the unexpected solution for parents striving to raise children to be functioning, contributing adults.
Forever young?
My husband and I have an understanding: in case of a post-apocalyptic event, I am going in the first wave.
A glimpse of heaven
A new mother, a bedridden grandmother and a plane ride. The silence of the journey brings thoughts of a world after death.
A doctor walked over and said those dreadful words, “Your baby didn’t make it.”
Hopal McClintock wrestles with God after the loss of her baby.