Yet again a post in this series is purely about pointing you to someone else’s cool post. Glennon Doyle Melton writes at Momastery about the difference between feeling like saying ‘no’ to someone or something and finding the words to actually say it. Even harder for teenagers, in endless intense situations with friendship capital at stake […]
We’re now in Holy Week, where Lent morphs into Easter. In my house we’ll continue lighting our Lenten candles and saying the sentences about Jesus that go with them, but there are plenty of other special things coming along this week that can take their own place in household spirituality. So here’s a bunch of […]
Welcome back to Jon, who wrote this great Guide to Supporting New Dads. He and his wife Jannine have been married for 14 years, and are currently the pastoral care directors of Living Well Church in Rotorua. My child doesn’t seem to like me very much at the moment, and I can’t quite understand why. My plan […]
Stuck at the traffic lights? Is your honey at your side? Have a kiss. Every time! That’s a micro-tip, but the much more serious and important point it’s part of is this: take every opportunity for a positive, loving interaction. Small is fine. A recent study found that couples in thriving marriages have at least […]
Lucy from Lulastic and the Hippy Shake has been reading Parenting for Social Change by Teresa Brett and snipping quotes for her Facebook page along the way. Here’s one that has stayed with me. I’m convinced this is helpful and would change how many of us feel when we are at our most frustrated with […]
I often tell my husband he needs to write a book about how to be an awesome partner to a pregnant person. It seems more likely that I’ll write a blog post about it though, so here we are. My husband was a superhero supporter through my pregnancy (and beyond). When your partner’s pregnant, it’s […]
The WordPress.com stats page is my constant companion. I LOVE looking at graphs and numbers and trends and data. If you do too, feel free to check out the fun report they generated for Sacraparental. Here’s an excerpt: The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 77,000 times in […]
At Christian conferences and leadership events I go to and speak at, women up the front are always – always – in a small minority. (It’s the same on all of the governance boards I’m on.) Very often, when I mention this to organisers, they say with regret that they just couldn’t find more women […]
I wrote this a few weeks ago. It’s part of a long-running series on my experience of severe postnatal depression, which has been part of my life for over two years now. You can find the whole series here, and the first post here. One of the reasons I can’t sleep tonight is the […]
In my favourite part of town, this blackboard has appeared. Thanks to Marvin and Chicoda for letting me snap them. What do you think? And what would you wish for? For some ideas on making your own list, check out Nicola’s guest post earlier this week on her ’30-olution.’