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Kirsten does some editing for the ACR alongside caring for her one-year-old daughter. She and her husband Dan are originally from Scotland but currently live and serve in Sydney.

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The Transcendent Queen

June 2, 2022June 2, 2022 by Kirsten McKinlay

I’ve never met the Queen myself, and am very unlikely to do so now, but I love to hear stories from those who have met her personally. So much so, that I actually remember once feeling quite breathtaken when my mum casually mentioned that she’d…
Christian Living

Learning the habit of Advent

November 11, 2021November 11, 2021 by Kirsten McKinlay

“Will you be closer to Christ because of this Christmas, or further away? Will your heart be softer to him or more callous? Will more fog lie between your eyes and his face, or will you see him with greater clarity and savour him with greater fervour?”[1]…
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How I came to know Jesus – Kirsten McKinlay

September 14, 2021September 14, 2021 by Kirsten McKinlay

How would you describe your life before you knew Jesus? My wonderful mum took me to church as a child – perhaps, she might say now, out of a sense of it being the right thing to do, since I had been baptised as a baby. I don’t think she expected church…
Christian Living

How to Break Up With Your Phone

March 18, 2021March 18, 2021 by Kirsten McKinlay

We all know there are countless benefits to smartphones, yet even the secular world is becoming increasingly alarmed by how our phones are changing us for the worse. Like many of us, I really appreciated Tony Reinke’s 12 Ways Your Phone Is Changing…
Christian Living

The best advent devotional I have read

November 17, 2020November 17, 2020 by Kirsten McKinlay

Last year I used the best advent devotional book I have ever read. To be fair, my reading in this category to date hasn’t been extensive. Nevertheless, I thoroughly recommend to you Christopher Ash’s Repeat the Sounding Joy. This book is…
Church History

Praying for patience

March 10, 2020March 10, 2020 by Kirsten McKinlay

I first started thinking about patience when I observed (what I perceived as) a lack of it in my husband nearly every time we had to leave the house together. He is a classic ‘doer’; he loves to act and get stuff done and ticked off. I, by contrast,…
Christian LivingDoctrine

The goodness of Christian hope

October 1, 2018September 30, 2018 by Kirsten McKinlay

Do your friends know the goodness of the Christian hope? Do you? Recently I was talking to one of my most biblically informed non-Christian friends about life, the world, human nature and God, when she told me “I don’t want eternal life”. …

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