'Radical discipleship' – ten questions with Karen Soole

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Date posted:  13 Jul 2026
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'Radical discipleship' – ten questions with Karen Soole

Karen Soole is a writer, speaker, and women’s worker at Trinity Church, Lancaster. She is the chair of the Northern Women’s Convention and a trustee of The Proclamation Trust.

1.How did you become a Christian?

I was adopted from Spurgeons Children’s Home by Christian parents. We lived in a nursing home where death was a reality, and I knew for as long as I can remember that this life is not all that matters. I turned to Jesus at a young age, with the usual ups and downs through my teenage years, until I was convicted by a talk on 2 Timothy 4v10: “Demas has deserted me because he loved the world.”

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