This week Marilyn Baker sits down to talk to Reflections producer Linn Davies-who is a trained journalist, Afrobeats singer and writer. Linn talks about working for the BBC, growing an online platform, writing thrillers and the inspiration behind the featured songs.
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Accessible Christian literature remains at the heart of Torch’s mission. And this week we meet the new resources curator, Janette Sturgis, whose working on expanding our library and bookshop offerings. She talks about her love of working in retail, her evolving understanding of disabilities, and shares details about some new discipleship books which she’s particularly excited about.
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In this season’s final episode we talk to Lay Preacher Wendy Coxhill. She talks about creative, multi-sensory prayer stations and the importance of intentionally slowing down.
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This week we sit down to a conversation with Torch’s newest trustee Philip Rice. He talks about his love of the Torch Holidays and his passion to bring children and young people to torch-making the client base more age diverse.
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In this episode we meet Lydia Ajayi who works for the National Commission for Persons With Disabilities In Nigeria. Due to medical neglect, she lost her sight and hearing, as well as having affected speech and partial paralysis in her left hand. She talks about how she believes the return of her hearing, full speech and feeling was a faith miracle and how reading is continuing to support her in every life situation.
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In this episode we talk to Sarah Brookman, the visionary behind the new Torch Chaplaincy telephone service, which aims to support people going through life changes relating to sight loss. We also hear from Heinrich Barth, one of the chaplaincy volunteers who lost his sight following an brain aneurism in 2019. The conversation with Heinrich is taken from season one of Torch’s podcast Walking By faith.
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In this episode we meet former Torch audiobook narrator and editor Dave ling. Dave talks about how he sees his sight loss as a gift God had always planned for him, and the importance of sharing that gift with the people around him.
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This week, Christian Vision For Men’s Carl Beech chats to us about living with Early Onset Parkinson’s, and shares how his struggle to live with the disease turned into a remarkable innovation to help battle his Parkinson’s symptoms. Carl demonstrates the device he’s developed during the programme, which when he turns it on demonstrates just how effective it is as his symptoms disappear – he hopes that with its release this year it will change the lives of millions of people worldwide.
