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Nov 25, 2024 | 
womanalive.co.uk | Veronica Zundel
Veronica Zundel shines a light on the impact of disagreements around beliefs and practices in the ChurchChristians are reportedly the most persecuted religious minority on earth. This is of course a tragedy, just like persecution of any other group.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
womanalive.co.uk | Veronica Zundel
Veronica Zundel urges us to look at how we live not to appease campaigners, or make ourselves feel more holy, but because to do so is loving others as Jesus didFor several years I have bought most of my clothes (far too many!) from Fairtrade or environmentally friendly catalogues. They have some truly lovely things, although I wait for the sales as the prices are inevitably higher.
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Aug 21, 2024 | 
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Veronica Zundel believes the Montessori method provides a good example of education for adults as well as children
Education. Or “Education, education, education”, as a certain Mr Blair famously said. According to Pink Floyd, it’s what we don’t need none of (although more education could have avoided that egregious double negative).
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Jul 24, 2024 | 
womanalive.co.uk | Veronica Zundel
Veronica Zundel shares her own experiences and perspective on the sporting worldWere you one of those schoolgirls who never got picked for anyone’s team (or at least not until you were the last one left)? I know I was. I hated ‘games’: I broke my finger playing netball and narrowly avoided losing an eye when a hockey ball hit me on the eyebrow, causing an impressive shiner.
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
womanalive.co.uk | Veronica Zundel
Veronica Zundel waxes lyrical about the touch and smell of books, and reminds us of the treasure to be found in the ultimate library of booksTime to be honest. I own a Kindle – a very old one. It’s around somewhere, though I’ve lost the charger and I doubt it would charge anyway now. I also have Bluetooth ear buds, but have never got round to downloading the BBC Sounds app on my phone. My husband reads books on his phone or tablet, but for me that has no appeal at all.
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May 28, 2024 | 
womanalive.co.uk | Veronica Zundel
Veronica Zundel admits her house is not tidy, but she still makes an effort to ensure people feel welcome in her homeLast Sunday we had friends round for dinner. I’ve been to their house for lunch; it was spacious and tasteful with a luxuriant garden and the lunch was delicious.
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Apr 22, 2024 | 
womanalive.co.uk | Veronica Zundel
In festival season Veronica Zundel admits that, while she loves Greenbelt, she prefers comfort to camping – but nevertheless is convinced that God loves to be on the move
As a seasoned ‘Greenbelter’, when I think of summer festivals I think of camping. I have camped perhaps four times, but three of them weren’t proper camping.
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Mar 19, 2024 | 
womanalive.co.uk | Veronica Zundel
Veronica Zundel unpacks the differing views on the cross, and provides her own take on the meaning of Easter
As a child, Easter meant little to me other than chocolate eggs and some rousing hymns in school assembly. Growing up with one Jewish parent and one lapsed Catholic, I was much more interested in Christmas, which was my first experience of what I would now call the numinous – the way my dad ran the ritual part of Christmas gave me a sense of something beyond the everyday; something holy.
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Feb 26, 2024 | 
womanalive.co.uk | Veronica Zundel
Veronica Zundel explains what she believes the term ‘lifestyle’ means
Near the beginning of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, there is a moment where the hapless hero Arthur Dent remarks: “I seem to be having tremendous difficulty with my lifestyle.” Unfortunately, this remark slips through a wormhole to a distant galaxy where it floats between two war leaders whose tribes are on the brink of war. Interpreted by one of the leaders as a terrible insult to his mother, it causes a bloodbath.
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Jan 25, 2024 | 
womanalive.co.uk | Veronica Zundel
Veronica Zundel challenges us to accept and support healthy connections beyond the ‘ideal’ the Church perpetually highlights
This year it will be 30 years since my dear friend Kathy died. We had much in common: single, intelligent Christian women battling the sexism of the Church, and survivors of brothers with severe mental illness. In her 30s Kathy vowed that if she reached 40 and was not yet married, she would “make her own arrangements”.
