Abingdon Press - Find Your Way Home Prison Tour

Find Your Way Home Prison Tour

ABINGDON PRESS PARTNERS WITH MAGDALENE/THISTLE FARMS TO LAUNCH TEN-CITY PRISON TOUR

The Find Your Way Home Prison Tour is a 10 city tour sponsored by The Cal Turner Family Foundation. Its purpose is threefold:

1) to share the story of Magdalene with women inside prison walls, reminding them that they can create communities of healing because no one is so lost they can't find their way home,

2) to share the large message of hope and love as powerful forces for change, reminding each other that there is always hope

3) to continue to help educate the wider culture about the truth and myths of why women walk the streets and how we can welcome women back into the larger community.

View the official press release

Read the United Methodist Reporter interview with Becca Stevens about the program

Read about the Find Your Way Home Prison Tour Dates
06-14-09: Nashville, Tennessee
11-14-09: Tallahassee, Florida
01-09-10: Memphis, Tennessee
                Memphis Commercial Appeal
               MyFox Memphis
                Memphis Flyer
01-25-10: New York City, New York
04-26-10: Atlanta, Georgia

Atlanta Journal Constitution

7-25-2010: Houston, Texas

Follow the tour on Flickr!

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For Becca Stevens writing, like love, is a practical endeavor. It is designed, she says, to move readers toward a shared ideal of love and compassion for the world as it is. Her books are; Sanctuary, nominated by Christianity Today as best spirituality book of 2005; Hither & Yon, and her latest, Funeral for a Stranger. The books have grown out of her work as chaplain of St. Augustine's Chapel at VanderbiltUniversity, and as founder and director of Magdalene and Thistle Farms.

"Love is my grounding," Stevens says. "It provides the axioms that inform the system and govern what I do. First is that love and grace are the most powerful sources for social change in the world. Second is that love heals. I'm not called to change the world. I am called to love it.”

Sponsored by the Cal Turner Family Foundation in partnership with Abingdon Press