Current
Katie Taylor walked out to a worship song at Croke Park. 82,000 people heard it.
For her last fight, Ireland's greatest boxer picked "All Hail King Jesus" and wore Psalm 18 in gold down her robe. Then she won, and retired undisputed at 40.
Women
Faith
Jael's name means “wild goat”, and that is not the insult it sounds like
Rev. Peggy Kennedy on Judges 4 and 5, on a woman who had pitched that tent a hundred times before she used the hammer for anything else, and on what the Hebrew actually means.
Culture
I tried to run away rather than take the photographs, and prayed for ten good shots
Soumya Susan was handed a camera at a children's Christmas drama in 2007 and nearly handed it back. Six years later she is a freelance photographer who thinks of herself as a missionary with a lens.
Faith
A publisher told her a book was “not so much written as it was preached”
Peggy Kennedy was preaching as a teenager and writing nothing. Then, driving to a Saturday luncheon, she heard herself say a sentence about an apple tree that she had not planned to say.
Wellbeing
When Serpent Suicide Slithers in
It was 10.45 at night when a stranger rang Ingrid Albuquerque-Solomon to say she was going to die. She had walked that road herself, which is the only reason the call kept going.
Wellbeing
A woman prayed over my family and said God wanted me to exercise
Jennifer Pinto teaches Zumba, prepares women for childbirth, and runs parenting workshops. All three started with something that went wrong.
Heritage
She walked into Newgate against advice, and found three hundred women sleeping on stone
Elizabeth Fry was a banker's wife with eleven children who became the first woman to give evidence to a committee of the House of Commons. What she did to English prisons, and what it cost her family.
Culture
She left school, and now she is the only woman running the sound desk at her church
Esther grew up the eldest of four daughters of daily-wage workers, and was pulled out of English-medium school so a younger sister could stay in. Then the church asked for someone to learn the mixer.
Heritage
She could recite eighteen thousand verses of Sanskrit, and used it to argue for widows
Pandita Ramabai was orphaned by famine at sixteen, widowed at twenty-three, and went to England to train as a doctor. Deafness ended that. What she built instead at Kedgaon is still open.
Culture
She learned oil painting at a work offsite, and has painted sixty-eight Bible scenes since
Maria Clara works at Genpact, runs a household, and paints. Some canvases take six months. She talks about Daniel among lion-faced men, and why she calls it a mission rather than a hobby.
Culture
An MLA recited the whole of Psalm 103 to her in Telugu, and she went to the ladies' restroom and cried
She had been a Crusader, then Legion of Mary, then twenty-five years in the Christian Workers Movement. She was a nominated Member of the Legislative Assembly. And she could not name a single Bible reference.
Campus
For two years of my teenage life I did not look in a mirror
She wanted to be a doctor, followed her friends into a diploma she did not understand, and then heard a voice tell her to resign a job she had held for thirteen months. She ended up running a theological college.
Culture
The candle failed in the mould and left a hole, so she filled it with orange wax and had room for one short verse
The verse that fitted was "I am fearfully and wonderfully made". Months later a pastor in Trivandrum reached for that candle while sitting with a couple who had been told to abort their baby.