I’m trying to decide how, as a Christian woman, I should age - and Madonna is teaching me a lot

Writer and model Hope Bonarcher reflects on growing older and how the likes of the Bible’s Solomon and popstar Madonna, have taught her what to do and what not to do.

I grew up in what could easily be referred to as “The Madonna Generation”, still playing with Barbies and listening to cassette tapes while controversy over her Like A Prayer video consumed the airwaves. The Queen of Pop has been making music longer than I’ve been alive. 

Now, gone are the bouncing brunette curls swirling to and fro before a gospel choir, the perfect body-waved coif framed by hot pink sateen gloves and diamonds, the wet boy-cut writhing around on a sandy beach and the boho ringlets gyrating to the speeding beat of city lights and the sunrise.  The current iteration of Madonna is barely recognizable for all the wrong reasons.