Becca Stevens
Auteur van Snake Oil: The Art of Healing and Truth-Telling
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Reverend Becca Stevens is an Episcopal priest and founder of Thistle Farms, a community of women recovering from institution, trafficking, and addiction. She has been hailed by the New York Times, ABC World News with Diane Sawyer, XPR, CNN, and most recently appeared in the PBS documentary, A Path toon meer Appears. The White House named her one of fifteen Champions of Change in 2011. Thistle Farms products are sold in over 400 stores nationwide. toon minder
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The Way of Tea and Justice: Rescuing the World's Favorite Beverage from Its Violent History (1700) 41 exemplaren
Waiting at the Gates 1 exemplaar
The way of tea and justice 1 exemplaar
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- 1963-04-01
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- female
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- USA
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- Connecticut, USA
- Woonplaatsen
- Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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- The University of the South
Vanderbilt Divinity School - Relaties
- Hummon, Marcus (husband)
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tangledthread | Jul 30, 2015 |
tangledthread | Jul 30, 2015 | 
This book is filled with thought provoking passages as a minister describes her experience officiating at a funeral for a woman she never knew. The author discuses how death impacts all of us and how we are all dependent upon strangers in both life and death. Even if you're not facing the death of a loved one, this book may be helpful in making sense of life.
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It is an extension of the Magdalene program http://www.thistlefarms.org/index.php/about-magdalene also a project by this author.
The book is in essay format with reflections on tea and the lives of the women involved with the project. There is a repetitive nature to the themes that can serve to reinforce ideas, but also makes the reader a little restless. Especially if read in one sitting as I did.… (meer)