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Sanctuary
Book - Paperback ISBN: 9780687494200
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Publication Date: September 2005
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 & Yon: 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.

About This Author

Becca Stevens

Becca Stevens is a justice entrepreneur, survivor of childhood sexual abuse, a priest, and a tireless advocate for women survivors in her hometown of Nashville, Tennessee, and around the world.

Her belief that love heals is the underlying theme behind everything she does. Becca has founded 10 justice initiatives around the world and has helped raise more than $55 million in private funds to lift women out of poverty and into freedom. She is the president of Thistle Farms, leading its network of sister organizations.

Becca has been featured everywhere from NPR to the New York Times, the TODAY Show to ABC World News. She has been recognized as Nexstar's 2026 Remarkable Woman of the Year, a Top 10 CNN Hero, and a White House Champion of Change. She counts among her supporters Bishop Michael Curry, Nicholas Kristof, and Jenna Bush Hager.

She has heard and experienced stories from women all over the world, always finding more signs of God’s love even in the most horrific circumstances. Her work is her joy. She believes she was born at the crossroads where crafts and justice meet to heal the world.
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