The world is in a mess, and I worry about the future. But this gives me hope
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Chine McDonald2023-10-24T11:21:00
In a world filled with war, conflict and increasing anxiety, the Church can offer a better story, says Chine McDonald
Within minutes of my first child being born in 2017, overwhelmed and delirious, I wept as I whispered to him: “I’m so sorry about Donald Trump.”
I was relieved we had both survived the birth, yet in the aftermath of the political turbulence of Brexit and the societal polarisation following the US election, I felt an overwhelming sense of guilt that I had delivered him into a world that was less safe and certain than the one I inhabited as a child.
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