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Nov 25, 2024 | 
womanalive.co.uk | Jane Knoop
Iranian born Marziyeh Amirizadeh was imprisoned in Tehran after encountering God in a dream and courageously telling others about the love of Jesus. But holding onto Matthew 10:19, Marziyeh speaks of a faith beyond fear Marziyeh spent the first 33 years of her life in Iran, growing up under a restrictive political and religious regime. “Iranians lost their freedoms in the revolution of 1979, and they are still suffering today,” she shares.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
womanalive.co.uk | Jane Knoop
Ashleigh Hull shares her experience of falling in love with someone of the same sex and how that led to her work with Living Out, an organisation helping people, churches and society talk about faith and sexualityAshleigh grew up going to church and confidently called herself a Christian from a young age, but she became increasingly aware that something was missing. “I could see a depth of relationship with Jesus in the people around me.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
womanalive.co.uk | Jane Knoop
Kezia Neusch is the creator of The Whole Home, an online space where she explores attainable low-impact living. Should all Christians be doing this? The questions started when Kezia was twelve years old, biting into a bar of chocolate. It said ‘Fairtrade’ on the wrapper. “If this chocolate is fairtrade, what about the other chocolate I eat?” she asked her dad. “What about the chocolate not deemed fair?
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
womanalive.co.uk | Jane Knoop
Wendy Grisham, deputy CEO of SPCK Publishing (and sister to author John Grisham), gives us insight into her progressive, radically inclusive faith, which fuels her passion for non-fiction books that bridge gaps and widen our conversations to reflect the expansiveness of God “I love to talk about books,” Wendy shares.
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May 28, 2024 | 
womanalive.co.uk | Jane Knoop
Award-winning garden designer Grace Rogers shares her top tips for planting in June
“I fell in love with the clean lines, the classical geometry and the way lush flowerbeds created vibrant pools of colour and energy in a formal landscape. The sheer depth of the beautiful pinks and purples of the peonies. I was blown away,” Grace says, describing a turning point moment at the Chelsea Flower Show in 2009.
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Apr 22, 2024 | 
womanalive.co.uk | Jane Knoop
When Jenny Gilpin discovered she was the product of gang rape, it started her on a huge journey of healing in which she discovered the true fatherhood of GodJenny Gilpin was 28 when she met her birth mother. She had discovered she lived at a cattle station – a bit like an American ranch – in rural Australia.
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Mar 19, 2024 | 
womanalive.co.uk | Jane Knoop
Janet Wyatt is the director of JW Care Group, one of the only care providers in the country specialising in young-onset dementia. She shares her story with us and the wisdom she’s gleaned through over 30 years devoted to dementia sufferers
“I’ve met people as young as 30 suffering from dementia,” Janet shares. “It’s a heartbreaking reality, and yet we’re not talking about it.”
According to the NHS, dementia is “a syndrome associated with an ongoing decline of brain functioning”.
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Feb 26, 2024 | 
womanalive.co.uk | Jane Knoop
Jill Duff, Bishop of Lancaster and former director of St Mellitus College, North West, spoke with Jane Knoop about the topsy-turvy nature of God’s kingdom
Have you ever experienced seasons where God has felt absent?
In the early days of setting up St Mellitus North West, my mum was diagnosed with cancer, and it seemed that every significant event – like my interview– coincided with her condition worsening. I couldn’t face the pain, so I found it hard to be still with him in prayer.
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Jan 25, 2024 | 
womanalive.co.uk | Jane Knoop
Jenny Costa, the visionary behind award-winning brand Rubies in the Rubble has an accessible message of hope and empowerment
One late afternoon in 2012, as 25-year-old Jenny cycled through London traffic on the way home from work, she paused to pick up an Evening Standard newspaper. Flicking through, an article caught her eye: ‘Bin Divers’. Apparently, people were risking arrest by rummaging through supermarket bins to rescue food that was past its sell by date but still edible.
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Jan 25, 2024 | 
womanalive.co.uk | Jane Knoop
Christina Tucker, otherwise known as ChrissyT, is a singer-songwriter and head of creative missions for The Message Trust in Cape Town, South Africa. She has witnessed God transform young people’s sense of identity and belonging…starting with her own
“My message isn’t me, my message is Jesus,” Chrissy shares with conviction and humility.
