Issue 19 ✍️ With God and With Others

Also features The Way of Love by Tenielle Neda, Grief Walks With Me by Britt, winter reads, conference season and new music ❄️

Hey friend,

The themes of this week’s pieces seem to be love, community, and grief. Tenielle’s album, The Way of Love, is finally out in the world! And we have a poem from Britt, one of our podcast hosts from the After Dinner Mint, as a special treat. Welcome to Issue 19 of Stories I’d Tell You at Dinner (July 2025).

Thank you to everyone who has been listening to the podcast! Thank you to the women who’ve texted through encouraging words, insightful comments, or kind, constructive feedback to our team! It’s a harder option than just pressing stop on the podcast—thank you for helping us to serve you better. We appreciate you!

🍷 Wine: Winter reads, conferences galore, and new music from Pearl

🧀🫒 Tapas: Shout outs to our paid subscribers.

🍝 First Course: With God and With Others by Madeleine Richards

🍲 Second Course: Grief Walks With Me by Britt

🍜 Third Course: The Way of Love by Tenielle Neda

🍰 Dessert: We hope you enjoy this content in community with other women. We’d love you to discuss the stories in gatherings around food. We’ve suggested a question as a jumping off point for your very own Dinner Club.

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🍷 Wine

❄️ Looking for winter reads? Check out No Turning Back and Leaving Blackwood.

🎶 Pearl Roycroft released a new single, Paper, off her new album, Closing Doors 🎉

📚 Conference Season is coming! Mark your diaries for Perth Women’s Convention on 25 October at Faith Community Church, Willeton.

🔖Thinking about going into ministry? Challenge Conference, hosted by Perth Gospel Partnership and MTS, is on 13 September at Bullcreek Westminster Presbyterian Church.

❤️ There’s a series of public talks about compassion, equality and love by Glen Scrivener, hosted by Perth Gospel Partnership, in August. Great to take a friend who’s not a Christian along

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Karen Fergie (Founding Member), Heather Fergie (Founding Member), Meredith Aguero (Founding Member), Josie Rivett (Founding Member), Yolanda Bilson, Stacey Fourie, Michelle Christie, Amanda Juniper, Sue Symons, Ruth McGill, Donna Smyth, Jacqui Robinson, Dennis Mahoney, Kate Middleton, Rhianon Rae, Danika Hamilton, mpkop, caileya, cathd83, kingslyn_nbn, jazman83, Melissa Caley, Rebekah Stone, Dané Craill, Tiff Bennett, Lyssa Lai, Michelle Preston, Phoebe Blaxill, Ruby Lee Burke, Emma Wiedermann, Kristy Sumich, Hannah Fairclough, Tasma Terpstra, Shannon Somora Hinkle, kyliemci, topenup, Jennie Markham, Tracey Marsh & Gillian Kirkness❤️

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Photo by Kym VdP

🍝 With God and With Others

Community is beautiful and needed but I haven’t always believed this. I once thought I could grow in my faith without Christian community. So much so that I chose to leave church because I believed I didn’t “need it”. This was a selfish and prideful viewpoint, but did I see it as that at the time? Most certainly not. I was blinded by my own behaviour. I thought I was doing the right thing. I thought I was protecting myself. I thought it’d help me to heal. I couldn’t be further from the truth. Read more

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The Way of Love

“The Way of Love” was inspired by the words of 1 Corinthians 13. Before I came to know Jesus, my understanding and experience of love was so distorted. I had to truly learn what love is and what it looks like. I learnt who love is, and what He looks like and how He defines love. And that changed my heart and life. Read more

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Photo by Kym VdP

🍲 Grief Walks With Me

I walk with grief and grief walks with me

sometimes I swim in it

I’m stuck

Drowning

Stuck in these feelings that I can’t reconcile

Between the what I have and what’s to come

Sorrow blossoming into empathy and compassion

Able to hold others sorrow

While learning to live amongst my own. Read more

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🍰 Dinner Club

Let us know in the comments, hit reply, or use this as a jumping off point for a conversation with an IRL friend:

What are you learning about grief? What are you learning about love?

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Thank you for reading! We’ll be back in your inbox next Wednesday with a podcast episode from The After Dinner Mint. I’ll be chatting with Khaiah Thomson, a social worker, author of the Blackwood series, and one of our regular contributors at Stories.

If you missed You’re So Vain, You Probably Think This Podcast is About You, Rach, Britt, Maddy, and I chatted about the things we love, but as Christians we feel like mayyyyyyybe we shouldn’t be into. Think fashion, binging true crime podcasts, mindless celebrity knowledge, trashy novels, and the music you scream-sing while driving. Can we do stuff just for the fun of it? Can we have guilty pleasures? How do we know when it’s gone too far? Catch up here.

We would love it if you could please say a quick prayer for us when you finish reading this email. Please pray that we would make beautiful things all for God’s glory and we would serve women in WA well 💛

Love,

Bec

Ps. If you haven’t got a ticket to Tenielle Neda’s shows with John van Deusen at Freo Church this weekend - there are still a few left!