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Home is not a place 4 COMMENT: A sense of belonging it’s a feeling. Home is where you treat your friends like family 5 PAUSE BUTTON: What makes and your family like friends. a home? quick search on Pinterest or Google brings a plethora of well-worn quotes and phrases. That doesn’t mean they aren’t truisms, but it can mean that words such as ‘family’ and ‘home’ come 6 FEATURE: veryA heavily laden with expectations. Adoption; the The Bryant kids, nine years ago and now! And there’s the rub: we can idealise it so core of who very easily. In our increasingly air-brushed from a Christian faith perspective. world, our search for home and family we are Do let me know. can be fruitless seeking after perfection. This edition explores what home and Bishop Graham looks back over his family mean to us as Christians. 19 years in the Diocese and sees a process of continuing renewal (pg 26). Over nine years ago, we added to the Nothing stands still and so it is with Bryant family through adoption. In our The Magazine. From next Spring we’ll main feature (pg 6) Dannie Hancock talks be moving to a quarterly publishing with four couples who have re-examined schedule. 12 Supporting strangers and their boundaries of family through sojourners adoption and fostering. Some other Many dioceses no longer have a printed people have literally opened their homes publication due to the cost, but the 14 Book reviews on home and in different ways – see pages 10 to 13. feedback we continue to receive shows family Bridging the gap between families and how valued this magazine is, and the a care home for the elderly is a growing important role it plays in enabling, 15 SOUL SPACE: The church as success story in Newton Flotman (pg 17) inspiring and sharing our faith. Keep an home and in the Children, Youth & Family pages eye on our website to see the schedule we read of fostering faith in the family, and themes for future issues. 16 Home at the heart of the reaching out to Dads and sharing faith through toddler groups. Blessings, Cathedral family These are just highlights of the many 23 Encouraging faith in families different articles that I hope will give you something to chew over about Barbara Bryant 24 Who let the Dads out? what family and home might look like Editor 26 Our Diocese, by Bishop Graham The Magazine design: 30 FOCUS ON: Launditch and Get in touch Adept Design www.adeptdesign.co.uk 01603 882348 (Editor) Views expressed in this publication are not necessarily Upper Nar [email protected] those of the Diocese and the acceptance of advertising does not indicate editorial endorsement. Diocesan House, 109 Dereham Road, Cover photo: The Tomlinson family at home; Easton, Norwich NR9 5ES photo by Barbara Bryant. www.dofn.org/magazine facebook.com/dioceseofnorwich @DioceseNorwich The next issue (deadline 12 Nov) focuses on unity/ecumenicism. Listen to The Magazine Podcast by searching for 34 ECO-SOUNDINGS: ‘Diocese of Norwich’ on the podcast app of your choice. More hot air in churches? To advertise in The Magazine please contact Sally on 01603 882322 or email [email protected] 39 WHAT’S ON: Christmas special 3 COMMENT A sense of belonging eflecting on home and however, enables families to discuss their are specified and a model set for family, I recall my own relationships and functioning. No family is Christian families. As part of our healthy happy childhood when I immune from dysfunction. development, we separate from our naively believed everyone’s family. Adolescence begins that process as Made in God’s image, we are relational experience was similar. I was wrong. we can grow and develop fully into who beings. Attachment theory informs us Family and home hold different we are. that if babies form secure attachments Rmeanings for people. The common with their caregivers, the babies will As a Christian I joined God’s family. My phrase ‘home is where the heart is’ develop a sense of secure self and can then Pastor encouraged us to “go out into can mean our loved ones, wherever explore the world from the security of that the mission field carrying the love of Jesus they are, or the physical family relationship. If not, s/he will develop an to a broken world and through a practical home providing a place of security, insecure attachment. These experiences compassionate response”. love, belonging, acceptance, trust, influence how we relate to people within forgiveness, growth, encouragement, I sensed my personal calling was “to family and outside and what we believe discipline, resilience and possibly faith. bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim about ourselves.