Signs of the Times magazine - Aus/NZ

26/09/2025

https://signsmag.com/2025/09/sirens/

What if the stories we dismiss as fantasy are actually glimpses of a greater reality?

24/09/2025

https://signsmag.com/2010/09/heal-the-planet/

Victor Parachin believes we can all help heal the planet by simply becoming vegetarian.

22/09/2025

https://signsmag.com/2025/09/how-mr-rogers-made-kindness-cool/

Kindness isn’t something you’re born with—it’s something you choose every day. Few people chose it more deliberately, or more effectively, than Fred Rogers.

19/09/2025

https://signsmag.com/2025/09/the-myth-of-more/

In the late 1980s, Donald Trump was asked how much money it would take to make him happy. His answer? “Ten per cent more.” The human heart has long been prone to believe the lie that just a little bit more will finally make us happy. In this pursuit of happiness, many of us find […]

17/09/2025

Before the age of two, most children think the world revolves around them. 🌎 From their point of view, what they think and how they feel must be what others think and feel, too. It’s why if they can’t see you when they’re playing hide-and-seek, they believe you surely can’t see them.

At around two years old, they start to recognise they are individuals, separate and distinct from other people. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Children can become more sensitive, considerate and thoughtful because they are able to put themselves in other people’s shoes.

When taken in the right dosage, the knowledge that you are being judged can spur you on to become a better person. ✨

Want practical tips on helping kids navigate self-consciousness? Read the full article online.

17/09/2025

From the vault:

There've been two calendar changes in the past 2000 years, so a key question about the Sabbath is whether we really know which day it is.

15/09/2025

https://signsmag.com/2025/09/raising-future-gentlemen/

In a world of rising toxic masculinity, here are some basic foundations we can provide to ensure our sons grow up to be men who make us proud. 1. show a little tenderness Boys require as much warmth, tenderness and affection as do girls, but studies have shown that parents hug, cuddle and even talk....

12/09/2025

https://signsmag.com/2025/09/a-song-for-every-storm/

How an ancient book of songs and poems has carried me through seasons of grief, joy, doubt, wonder—and everything in between.

10/09/2025

From the vault:

Kids can be frustrating, as all parents well know. But as Sheila O'Connor points out, you can and need to stay in control of them-and yourself.

08/09/2025

https://signsmag.com/2025/09/how-one-mans-mindset-redefined-human-limits/

It was May 6, 1954, and the crowd gathered in anticipation at Oxford’s Iffley Road Track, UK. Word had it that history was about to be made—though many still doubted it. You see, up to that point in time, no human had ever run a mile (1.6km) in under four minutes. In fact, the widespread […]

07/09/2025

https://signsmag.com/2025/09/fatherhood-through-a-toddlers-eyes/

One year in, and fatherhood has undone and remade me—in all the best ways.

07/09/2025

To all our awesome dads, happy Father's Day!

"See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God!" (1 John 3:1)