All Real life articles
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OpinionI prayed for 365 days for my baby. This is what happened
This Lent, writer Cristina Turlacu reflects on the quiet power of daily prayer and how it can gently transform your day-to-day life. Through her personal journey of motherhood, she invites you to be encouraged to pray and discover how even the simplest words whispered in faith can bring strength, peace, and lasting change.
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OpinionYou CAN sit with us! What I learned from the first Woman Alive audience podcast recording about sisterhood
Yetty Afolabi recounts her experience attending the recording of the International Women’s Day special episode of the Woman Alive podcast. Through this invitation to join the WA community, Yetty reflects on the transformative power of authentic sisterhood in both celebration and vulnerability.
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Opinion‘A “Christian cult” group targeted me on LinkedIn’
Alem Derege reflects on two unsettling encounters with the secretive religious group Shincheonji, which both The Church of England and Alpha’s Nicky Gumbel have named a ‘cult’. She shares a personal warning about spiritual manipulation, online recruitment tactics and the importance of discernment.
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Opinion‘Woman Alive featured the faith story of my grandmother in 1996, and it inspired my own relationship with God’
Brooke Singleton traces how her grandmother’s radical obedience to God, captured decades ago in Woman Alive, shaped her own life of faith.
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Article‘If we focused on what we’d lost, we’d be overwhelmed’
Ciara Dierking faced a sudden and life-threatening illness in December 2024, which resulted in the amputation of all four limbs. She spoke with our deputy editor Jemimah Wright about her journey through suffering, faith and learning to choose gratitude during unimaginable loss
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ArticleStarting my business, one page at a time
Lydia Hughes shares the story of how she built her stationery business, Faithful Pages, to encourage us to document and remain faithful in our walk with God
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OpinionMy brother died in the Columbine High School shooting in 1999 and I wrestled with God, but I still trust him
Ashley Glader shares the unimaginable story of losing her brother in the Columbine High School shooting — and how that tragedy shattered her faith before ultimately reshaping it. Through profound loss, unanswered prayers, and years of wrestling with God, she explains why she still chooses to trust him.
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OpinionFrom witchcraft to new life in Jesus
Born into trauma, addiction, and deep spiritual confusion, Charlene Humphrey’s life began marked by pain, loss, and a relentless search for identity, love, and belonging. This is the story of how God met her in the depths of brokenness and transformed her ashes into beauty, leading her from darkness into freedom, purpose, and redemption through Jesus Christ.
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OpinionI wanted to end my life until Jesus saved me
Hetti Harper documents her journey from involvement in spiritualism and the occult to faith in Jesus Christ. She reflects on the experiences and events that led to her conversion, deliverance, and the lasting impact this transformation has had on her life and family.
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ArticleFrom a broken marriage to X factor and a miraculous healing
Singer-songwriter Juliet Dawn spoke with Premier’s Mal Pope about her abusive marriage, heartbreaking loss, a miraculous healing and the journey that has taken her from Cornwall to Nashville
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ArticleLife Lessons: ‘OK, Lord, it’s you and me’
Alison Ruoff, 83, has led a full and adventurous life!
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OpinionI was a Hindu, until I encountered the love of Jesus
Sourabhi Sircar reflects on her journey from growing up in a traditional Hindu household to encountering a love that transformed her faith and life forever. Through seasons of disappointment, searching and renewal, she shares how God patiently called her into a living relationship with Jesus Christ.
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OpinionWhen God writes the love story: my supernatural marriage setup
Writer Philly Larcombe shares how years of suffering, singleness, and unanswered prayers collided with a breath-taking, supernatural marriage setup. It’s a testimony of God moving long before she could see, or even believe, that he would.
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Article‘I had no doubts that what he’d done was wrong and awful’
Fiona Rugg’s father, John Smyth QC, was accused of decades-long physical, psychological and spiritual abuse of boys and young men in England and Zimbabwe but died in 2018 before any charges were brought. Justin Welby, former Archbishop of Canterbury, stepped down from his role in 2024 because of accusations from the Makin Report in relation to his knowledge of John Smyth’s abuse. Smyth’s children, PJ, Caroline and Fiona, appeared recently in a Channel 4 documentary See No Evil about their father. Fiona spoke with Jemimah Wright before the release of the documentary
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ArticleI’m fine…until I’m not
Based on an extract from her latest book, I’m Fine. Really?, life coach Darla Nelson looks at why we often hide our true emotions and how honesty sets us free
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ArticleLife Lessons: Living in hope of a reunion
Angie Jones shares the indescribable pain of losing two of her children, alongside the joy of seeing God bring something good out of the sorrow
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ArticleLife Lessons: 81-year-old Enid Cork on moving to the UK in the 60s, support from the local church and working with Mercy Ships
Enid Cork arrived in the UK from Jamaica aged 17 and hit the ground running. She hasn’t stopped, and here shares from her full life
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ArticleEx-Reiki master says: ‘I thought I was helping others and healing myself, but it was all so dark’
Once a master in reiki and psychic readings, Lucia Thompson today brings God’s light to the people of Bangor through Open Heavens Christian café
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ArticlePolitician Carolyn Harris admits, 'I was so angry with God'
During her campaigns to better understand women’s health, Deputy Leader of Welsh Labour and Member of Parliament for Neath and Swansea East, Carolyn Harris, had a health crisis of her own – the physical and mental effects of weight gain. She shares her story of transformative weight loss using the weight-loss jab, Mounjaro
