All Real life articles – Page 9
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Living with long COVID
We have all been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, and many are still suffering its effects months after contracting the virus. Respiratory nurse and lecturer Debbie Duncan shares what is has been like for herself and others coping with long COVID
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Let’s stop telling everyone to be more resilient
Veronica Zundel questions whether we should all be running after resilience in every circumstance
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‘I’m a virgin, do I need a smear test?’
Your health questions answered by our resident GP, Dr Olúṣẹ̀yẹ Àríkàwé
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Our Queen: 70 years of faith and service
As we enter the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, Catherine Butcher shares her discoveries about the Queen’s faith and invites us to join in with this year’s celebrations
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Our adopted daughter wasn’t waiting for us, but we chose her long before she was born
Lucinda Smith learned a lesson about her own relationship with God in the process of bringing an abandoned baby into her family
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Learning to live: my journey through cancer
Kate Nicholas on dealing with cancer returning and a near-death experience following her mastectomy
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Five countries where being a woman and a Christian is dangerous
To mark International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women (November 25), Ben Cohen of the charity Open Doors UK & Ireland considers the shocking truth of what life is like for Christian women around the world
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Laughing children, hot chocolate and a snoring dog on a lazy Sunday afternoon…
Maxine Hallett reflects on her journey towards God, and the sanctuary she now calls home
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Signs & Wonders in everyday life - December 2021
Stories of God’s intervention through the power of prayer
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My life in a convent
When you hear the word ‘nun’ what do you think of? Sister Act or Julie Andrews in the iconic Sound of Music? If these are your benchmarks the reality may well disappoint. However, there are many delightful insights to discover about the religious life. Caroline Leighton spent some time as a postulant in a religious community and lifts the lid on what it was like
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‘I had made peace with dying, but the thought of being crippled was harder’
After 15 years of a progressively debilitating illness, John Mark Comer’s wife, Tammy, was supernaturally healed from a curse last year. She talked to Jemimah Wright about her journey
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‘Pornography has been normalised in our culture’
Catherine Etherington, the Head of Recovery for the UK-based Naked Truth Project, talks about their mission to free lives from the damaging impact of sexual addictions
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Working through suffering without losing faith in God
Having lost precious children to miscarriage and a daughter, Libby, at birth, Katherine Gantlett shares how she stopped trying to escape the winter seasons of her life, and learned to walk with him authentically and honestly
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Life Lessons: Following God’s call all around the world
Marti Green, 77, and her husband set up Youth With A Mission in England, and helped train thousands of young people to share the gospel
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‘My ex-husband bit off my nose, cut off my ear and carved up my face like a cabbage in an attempt to slit my throat’
Make this International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women (25 November) count, urges Abbie Mumbi
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Giving thanks this Thanksgiving
The woman behind the popular Woman Alive Book Club, Amy Boucher Pye, is an American living in England. Here she shares her memories of Thanksgiving, and encourages us all to take some time today to think about the things we can be grateful to God for
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‘Suicidal thoughts are nothing to be ashamed of, but they do need to be taken seriously’
Research from Menopause Experts Group highlights a rise in suicide rates for women aged 45 to 54 – the age when most women experience perimenopause and menopause. Dr Kate Middleton explains why and offers practical coping strategies
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‘Idols aren’t just inanimate objects. Mine was a garden’
Holly Satterthwaite shares how identifying and killing the idols in our lives puts God back in the driving seat and makes us better witnesses of Christ’s love
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‘As far as I was concerned, affairs were for characters in soaps and films, not Christian marriages!’
Babs Bray felt great compassion for Alice Evans when the news of husband Ioan Gruffudd’s alleged infidelity broke. Despite Babs’s heartbreak after her ex-husband’s affair came to light, she was determined to forgive her ex and do the right thing