Claire van Ryn

Journalist/Columnist

Place of birth: Launceston

Year of birth: 1983

Lived in Launceston: for 20 years

“I Love to write, I love god and I love people. Through my job as journalist and my weekly column called Keeping the Faith I have the sublime opportunity to combine all three of my passions and communicate the small epiphanies of life. People often ask me how I come up with
new material every week, how my faith remains intact in a world wrought with sadness. I use the words of Isaiah 40:31 as my mantra, ‘Those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not
be faint’.”