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Sanctuary: Unexpected Places Where God Found Me
Sanctuary is about some unlikely and unexpected places where Becca Stevens has encountered God―a trail in the Andes, her son’s bathtub, Dorothy Day’s Hospitality House, the Kroger parking lot. Sanctuary was nominated by Christianity Today as best spirituality book of 2005.
“I have never read a more direct and moving set of meditations. Becca Stevens has the most extraordinary gift for finding the ineffable in our ordinary old real world, and for making us feel it, too.”
-Lee Smith, author of The Last Girls
“Becca Stevens’ meditations imagine an entire world and our part in it, as a place where God dwells. Instead of the tired effort of searching for God, she reminds us, like Francis Thompson’s ‘Hound of Heaven,’ that God can find us wherever we are.”
-Charles Strobel, Founding Director, Campus for Human Development
“Becca Stevens is my kind of preacher woman. Her ministry extends far beyond the walls of St. Augustine’s Chapel. Her words bring to life the miracles that abound in the mundane.”
-Marshall Chapman, author of Goodbye, Little Rock and Roller
“Sanctuary can be found in Becca Stevens’s elegant, exquisite, earnest pages.”
-Alice Randall, author of The Wind Done Gone
Becca Stevens is an Episcopal priest at St. Augustine’s Chapel on the Vanderbilt University campus. She is the founder of Magdalene, a residential community for women with a criminal history of prostitution and drug abuse, and the author of Hither & A Travel Guide for the Spiritual Journey, coming in September 2007.
Meet Becca Stevens in this video interview about her life, faith and experience with the women of Magdalene House.
“I have never read a more direct and moving set of meditations. Becca Stevens has the most extraordinary gift for finding the ineffable in our ordinary old real world, and for making us feel it, too.”
-Lee Smith, author of The Last Girls
“Becca Stevens’ meditations imagine an entire world and our part in it, as a place where God dwells. Instead of the tired effort of searching for God, she reminds us, like Francis Thompson’s ‘Hound of Heaven,’ that God can find us wherever we are.”
-Charles Strobel, Founding Director, Campus for Human Development
“Becca Stevens is my kind of preacher woman. Her ministry extends far beyond the walls of St. Augustine’s Chapel. Her words bring to life the miracles that abound in the mundane.”
-Marshall Chapman, author of Goodbye, Little Rock and Roller
“Sanctuary can be found in Becca Stevens’s elegant, exquisite, earnest pages.”
-Alice Randall, author of The Wind Done Gone
Becca Stevens is an Episcopal priest at St. Augustine’s Chapel on the Vanderbilt University campus. She is the founder of Magdalene, a residential community for women with a criminal history of prostitution and drug abuse, and the author of Hither & A Travel Guide for the Spiritual Journey, coming in September 2007.
Meet Becca Stevens in this video interview about her life, faith and experience with the women of Magdalene House.
125 pages, Paperback
First published September 15, 2005
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About the author
Becca Stevens
22 books61 followersBecca Stevens is an author, speaker, priest, social entrepreneur, founder and president of Thistle Farms. After experiencing the death of her father and subsequent child abuse when she was 5, Becca longed to open a sanctuary for survivors offering a loving community. In 1997, five women who had experienced trafficking, violence, and addiction were welcomed home.
Twenty years later, the organization continues to welcome women with free residence hat provide housing, medical care, therapy and education for two years. Residents and graduates earn income through one of four social enterprises. The Global Market of Thistle Farms helps employ more than 1,800 women worldwide, and the national network has more than 40 sister communities.
Becca has been featured in the New York Times, on ABC World News and PR, was recently named a 2016 CNN Hero and a White House “Champion of Change." She was featured in the PBS documentary, A Path Appears, named Humanitarian of the Year by the Small Business Council of America and inducted into the Tennessee Women’s Hall of Fame. Stevens attended the University of the South and Vanderbilt Divinity School. She has been conferred 2 honorary doctorates.
Twenty years later, the organization continues to welcome women with free residence hat provide housing, medical care, therapy and education for two years. Residents and graduates earn income through one of four social enterprises. The Global Market of Thistle Farms helps employ more than 1,800 women worldwide, and the national network has more than 40 sister communities.
Becca has been featured in the New York Times, on ABC World News and PR, was recently named a 2016 CNN Hero and a White House “Champion of Change." She was featured in the PBS documentary, A Path Appears, named Humanitarian of the Year by the Small Business Council of America and inducted into the Tennessee Women’s Hall of Fame. Stevens attended the University of the South and Vanderbilt Divinity School. She has been conferred 2 honorary doctorates.
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February 5, 2020
A nice way to start the morning.
March 12, 2011
Written by the same author as Find Your Way Home, this is my favorite meditation book by Becca Stevens. Stevens is the founds of Magdalene House in Memphis, a wife and mom, and an Episcopal priest at St. Augustine's Chapel at Vanderbilt University. Her meditations of finding God in unexpected places is lovely! A keeper!
December 13, 2011
I enjoyed this short book of reflections. I like the way this author thinks.
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