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Anita Coon Part 1 Mar 25, 2025

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Anita Coon was a child of the sixties. Like her peers she explored the hippie lifestyle. She came to faith in the height of the Jesus Movement. However, it wasn’t long until Anita found herself in a dangerous cult that she had to escape. Others faith might have been challenged by such an experience, but Anita recounts how she clung to Jesus and how He continued to safeguard, keep her, and bless her. Today Anita Kuhn leads the women’s prayer ministry at her church, teaches Bible studies, and leads group discussions.

Phyllis Thompson Part 2 Mar 18, 2025

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As a young woman, Phyllis loved all night life of London in the 1920’s. She loved to play cards, dance, and party. During that time she never imagined that someday she would serve as a missionary in China and be a prolific author of Christian biographies, but that is exactly what took place once Jesus captured her heart. Listen as Cheryl recounts the testimony of how Phyllis came to faith, her adventures in China, and how God majestically directed her life

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Phyllis Thompson Part 1 Mar 11, 2025

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Ruth Munce Mar 04, 2025

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Ruth was born in 1898 and lived to be 103 years old. She began writing Christian fiction when her mother, Grace Livingston Hill, passed away and left her current novel unfinished. Ruth finished her mother’s book and went on to write six more novels. When Ruth’s minister husband passed away only twenty years into their marriage, Ruth began teaching and went back to college. When she graduated, she started a Christian school in Pinellas County, Florida in 1952. At the age of 70, Ruth went to Nairobi, Africa and taught for eight years. She wrote a nonfiction book based on the curriculum she taught in Africa. She continued to teach weekly Bible studies until she was well into her nineties.

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Carmen Imes Part 2 Feb 25, 2025

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Dr. Carmen Joy Imes is associate professor of Old Testament at Talbot School of Theology, Biola University, in Southern California. She is the author of Bearing God's Name: Why Sinai Still Matters and Being God's Image: Why Creation Still Matters. She's currently writing a book to complete the trilogy, called Becoming God's Family: Why the Church Still Matters. Carmen has a YouTube channel where she releases weekly Torah Tuesday videos and you can find her writing on various websites, including Christianity Today, The Well, and The Politics of Scripture blog. Carmen is passionate about equipping the church to engage the Old Testament well and to see its relevance for the Christian life.

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Carmen Imes Part 1 Feb 18, 2025

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Melanie Dobson on Grace Livingston Hill Part 2 Feb 11, 2025

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Melanie is the award-winning author of thirty historical, time-slip, and romantic suspense novels. She received her undergraduate degree in journalism from Liberty University and her master’s degree in communication from Regent University. Melanie explored the life of Grace Livingston Hill and visited her home while researching for her newest novel. Melanie and her husband live in the Pacific Northwest where Jon works at BibleProject. They have two daughters.
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Grace Livingston Hill is considered the creator of the modern Christian romance novel. She was born in Wellsville, New York. Her father was a Presbyterian minister, and both he and Grace's mother were writers. Grace’s first book was published when she was just twelve years old. After the death of her first husband, Grace was left with two small children and no income. When her father died less than a year later, her mother came to live with her. This prompted Grace to begin writing two to three books a year in order to support her family. She traveled around the country speaking and founded a Sunday School Mission. She partnered with Evangeline Booth to write a nonfiction book on the Salvation Army. In addition, she wrote hundreds of short stories, poetry, composed lyrics for hymns and a choir cantata, and even wrote a syndicated weekly column for a newspaper. Grace passed away in 1947, but her books continue to delight readers today.
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Melanie Dobson on Grace Livingston Hill Part 1 Feb 04, 2025

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Michelle Ule on Pandita Ramabai Part 3 Jan 28, 2025

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A brilliant Sanskrit scholar, Ramabai Donge earned the title "Pandita" as a twenty-year-old orphaned woman in 1878 India. Determined to follow in her Hindu father's belief that women could be scholars, Ramabai used her fame to argue for the education of women. along with the need for female physicians.
Widowed four years later with a baby, she met Christians who introduced her to the Bible, encouraged her to speak about women's needs, and helped her to travel to England. Baptized in England, Pandita Ramabai received university training with the aim of advancing Indian women's opportunities. Traveling to America, she visited educational models, particularly kindergartens, and returned to India to open a school for child widows, needy women, and orphans.
During this time, she wrote Testimony, which confirmed her Christian beliefs and joy that Jesus loved women just as much as men.
Within a few years, her school grew, and she established the Mukti Mission outside of Bombay, where the mission provided education, vocational training, and a profound Christian witness. As famine swept India in the early 20th century, Ramabai ultimately collected nearly 3000 needy women and children to the mission--which is still helping educate needy women and children today.
Pandita Ramabai sparked a Christian revival in 1905 and spent the last fifteen years of her life translating the entire Bible into the Marathi language--one of the major Indian dialects. She died in 1922.
The Indian government honored her contribution to the education of women in 1984 with a postage stamp.