The Blind Faith Podcast, hosted by Mark Madavan, is a thoughtful series which explores personal stories of faith and how sight loss has influenced those experiences.
In this episode Mark chats with Anne Phipps who is progressively losing her sight due to Macular disease. Anne reflects on the unexpected gifts sight loss has given her, such as having to live a lower carbon life and connecting with people through asking for help. She also shares how her faith journey has evolved and how she’s comfortable with being uncertain about things relating to faith.
In this episode, we hear from Vicki Bryson, Torch’s new Church Partnerships coordinator, who talks about what she thinks may be some barriers to including blind and partially sighted people in Church. We also hear from Marie McCarroll who attended Torchs Northern Ireland convention.
The Blind Faith Podcast, hosted by Mark Madavan, is a thoughtful series which explores personal stories of faith and how sight loss has influenced those experiences.
In this episode, Mark chats to Kay Morgan who lived most of her life not realising she had a vision impairment, and that what she saw was the (normal) way of seeing. She also shares how worship music is how she connects spiritually, and that listening to it always enables her to pray when she struggles with grief around her disabilities.
This week we hear the second part of Hardeep Rai’s story. And how he rebuilt his professional life after leaving finance and setting upkaleidoscope.group to help disabled people find meaningful work or start a business.
The Blind Faith Podcast, hosted by Mark Madavan, is a thoughtful series which explores personal stories of faith and how sight loss has influenced those experiences.
In This episode, Mark chats with Tony Taylor who, after experiencing his older sister’s journey with sight loss, decided that he wanted to defy any low expectation society might have had for him. He also shares how God has been a source of strength for him in all aspects of his life, perhaps most especially when he was working.
In 2006 Hardeep Rai was living a good life. He was at the pinnacle of his career in finance and he was about to become a dad. What he didn’t know, was that the birth of his son Eshan, who was severely disabled, would turn his life in an unexpected direction, including becoming a Christian and starting an enterprise to help disabled people in work and business.
The Blind Faith Podcast, hosted by Mark Madavan, is a thoughtful series which explores personal stories of faith and how sight loss has influenced those experiences.
In This episode, Mark chats with Torch trustee Brian Anderson. Brian and Mark discuss the balancing act between being independent and seen as a person first rather than just being seen as someone with a vision impairment, and knowing when and how to ask for help. Brian also shares how he came to faith following a time of deep depression.
In this episode, we hear the second part of Linn’s interview with blind sound engineer and musician Peter Bosher, who reflects on how faith inspires his music and talks about the Elizabeth Eagle-bott Memorial Fund, an exciting opportunity for blind and partially sighted musicians. We also get another teaser from Blind faith, Torch’s newest podcast which feature stories of blind and partially sighted people.
