After the election, I will get up and go to work. I will work to help women who are incarcerated, on the streets, trafficked, addicted, and searching for hope. No...

Bearing witness means listening to a story again and again. It is seeing the woman in front of you, nodding along as you recognize parts, weeping together, and believing together...

With long nights falling in the season of epiphany, January is surely the time to celebrate dreams.One of my favorite things is reflecting on my dreams in my early waking...

This past summer a new collaboration, The Bethlehem Project, was born between Love Welcomes, Thistle Farms, and the Center for Contemplative Justice.  We commissioned three hundred chalices and patens from potters living...

During monsoon season it rains every day, surrounding the mountains north of Kathmandu in distant cloudy haloes. It is magical seeing Tibetan nuns running through the rain towards their temple...

I recently returned from two and a half weeks in Africa, visiting and connecting with communities doing justice.

There is a miracle that happens when people offer tiny droplets, bits of rich soil, and seeds of hope. Something stunning begins to grow.

Wildflowers are harbingers of spring. Every year, no matter how hard the winter, flowers resurrect.

I am not sure why exactly, but I knew that grace, like mercy, falls on the just and unjust. I found comfort in changing the phrase so that when I witnessed...

Civility seems like a low bar for our common life together, and yet it also seems that often we can’t even reach that. We struggle to be kind to one...

I love stained glass. I love the artistry, the history embedded in small fragments we piece together, and how it calls us into prayer. But when I walked into a...

It's about friends. I have been thinking a lot about how we have grown Thistle Farms and Thistle Farms Global into a movement for women's freedom. It didn't happen by finding a life coach, a...

The latest incarnation of #metoo unfolded recently at a megachurch in Chicago, and my thoughts have been with the woman who brought her dark secret to light. I am in awe...

It is a gift in the season of Thanksgiving to show up to wherever you are, with gratitude. It makes all the small irritations fade into sweetness like marshmallows on...

I was born barefoot and, God willing, I will die with bare feet. When I read the story of God telling Moses to take off his shoes because he stands...

We need to move beyond words and help inspire people to join with the women of Ukraine in shared hope for healing.

Kristin McWilliams, a talented organizer, leader, wife and mom, reflects in the following blog on her first year as an Executive Assistant to me at Thistle Farms. Read on to...

This has been a summer of travel, work, and high altitude dreams. From the Sleeping Giant Volcano in Hawaii, to Porter's Cabin 10,000 feet up in Idaho, to the shrine on the mountain...

“Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb...” — John 20:1

Ty in Manufacturing (Photo Credit: Peggy Napier) I was recently given the assignment to interview one of the amazing survivor leaders at Thistle Farms, and I am so grateful to be...

At this time of year we remember those who have paid the way and given their lives to the work of justice like Douglass & Martin Luther King, Jr. Each day...

Abi, the Director of Thistle Farms Global, just returned from the Syrian Refugee Camp in Ritsona, Greece, where the women of The Welcome Project are still leading with strength, grace, and hope in...

Mark 9:2-9: We hear the story of the Transfiguration twice a year in church. The first is the last Sunday of Epiphany and then again at the feast of the transfiguration...

If you take anything away from this—take this: speak the words of God when you need to. Preach through your deeds. And every now and then, for the love of...