"The Imams are convinced an Angel of God Is with you" Jamie Winship | Unfolding Short Stories
The Unfolding
Northwestern Media
4.9 • 867 Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2025
⏱️ 14 minutes
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"The Imams are convinced that… an angel of God is with you."
Today's story comes from an interview Meridith did with Jamie Winship a couple of years ago, first shared in our 2023 Angels episode, Episode 183. In a remote desert camp, a simple detail about table settings leads to an extraordinary realization. God's presence was already there.
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| 0:00.0 | They start using the word Malayakat, which in Hasaniyah means angel. |
| 0:03.6 | And so he says, you can't see him, can you? |
| 0:07.0 | And so then the imams are convinced that this isn't. |
| 0:09.4 | They call Malayakat Allah. |
| 0:11.0 | An angel of God is with you. |
| 0:13.3 | God's story, your life. |
| 0:18.1 | Unfolding short stories. |
| 0:21.6 | Every year on the unfolding, we like to reflect on angel stories to lead us into Christmas. |
| 0:27.7 | So don't miss our last two full-length episodes, which are filled with great angel stories. |
| 0:33.3 | Well, today's story is another angel story. |
| 0:36.1 | It comes from an interview that Meredith did with Jamie Winship a couple of years ago for page 183 for the 2023 Angels episode. |
| 0:46.4 | In a remote desert camp, Jamie shares how a simple detail about table settings led to an incredible realization. An angel of God is with you. |
| 0:58.7 | I was working on a three-man team and we were sent out really into the middle of the Sahara Desert |
| 1:05.1 | was where we were going to meet a group out there. And the group we were going to meet is a Muslim kind of tribal community, |
| 1:14.3 | $250,000. And the situation that they're in is a difficult situation for them. They're kind of like |
| 1:21.0 | refugees, but not really. And so the problem with it is a big population like that that's displaced |
| 1:27.0 | is a breeding |
| 1:27.7 | graph for terrorism, just because they're Islamic. |
| 1:31.0 | And when you have a group that's disenfranchised, it's easy for extremists to come inside |
| 1:37.5 | and stir them up into violence. |
| 1:40.2 | And so we were going out there to try and counter that from happening. |
| 1:45.4 | So the three of us are sent there. |
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