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New Year, New Habits?

January 16, 2025January 16, 2025 by Bronwyn Windsor

We are creatures of habit. Our bodies thrive on routine—we get hungry at roughly the same times, we generally like routines, and we naturally form habits. This is by God’s design. Neuroscience confirms that repetition ingrains behaviours,…

Christian Living

What happened a year ago today

July 20, 2023July 18, 2023 by Bronwyn Windsor

It’s a cliché: ‘It began as an ordinary day’. But it did. And it opened a window into the ordinary extraordinariness of God’s providence. 7:57am – my husband is going for a run. He’s a very routine-type person so it’s his usual practice, but it’s…

Christian Living Doctrine

In the spitting image of God

December 20, 2022December 19, 2022 by Bronwyn Windsor

This year on my birthday I received one of those DNA test kits – and I was so excited, I couldn’t wait to do it. I’d been wanting to do one of these for ages. The instructions directed me to spit into a little test tube and mail it off to the lab. It felt…

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Spiritual CBT

August 10, 2021August 10, 2021 by Bronwyn Windsor

We’re often encouraged in our culture to speak ‘your truth’. Apparently, it’s no longer enough to just speak the truth – the truth is now highly personal! And as well as being personal, your truth can even change or develop over time… in fact it…

Christian Living Evangelism Youth & Kids

The gospel according to a 5-year-old

September 17, 2020September 17, 2020 by Bronwyn Windsor

When my kids were young, I had the idea to talk with them about the gospel over dinner so that we could discuss together about what it means for us to follow Jesus. (Dinnertimes were pretty crazy with three kids under ten and the usual debates over…

Christian Living Church History

Anglicans and pandemics: 101 years on

April 21, 2020April 21, 2020 by Bronwyn Windsor

This is not the first time that the ACR has seen a pandemic. From 1880, the Church Record, as it was known, reported on all the news relating to the Anglican Church in Australia and New Zealand. So I did a bit of research and trawled through the archives…

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Creatures of habit: Getting our habits under control

April 7, 2019April 7, 2019 by Bronwyn Windsor

In part 1 we looked at why it’s so important to harness our habits for good. Now we turn to the nitty-gritty practical stuff about what this might look like. At the risk of stating the complete obvious: we make time for the things we really want to…