Some aspects of being a mum are timeless: loss of sleep, for example, but also an experience of profound, self-sacrificial love. Other aspects, however, are heavily influenced by our own time and place, and the ways that our culture has decided to “do” parenthood. Life and Faith welcomes back Justine Toh from maternity leave just in time for this Mother’s Day program, which considers the contemporary obsession with kids on the one hand and with autonomy on the other, and asks the question: what does the Bible have to say about the mother-love of God?