The Asylum Seekers: A Conversation with Author Cristina Rathbone

Date: March 20, 2025
Time: 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Location: Zoom
Webinar
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Join the Chaplaincy Innovation Lab for a conversation with Rev. Cristina Rathbone on her new book, The Asylum Seekers: A Chronicle of Life, Death, and Community at the Border. We’ll discuss how Cristina found herself serving those at the border, how her training as a chaplain prepared her for this work, and what lessons all chaplains can learn from the experience of asylum seekers. 

From March 18 to April 30, Broadleaf Books will offer a 40% discount to the Chaplaincy Innovation Lab community. Order the book here and use the code AsylumSeekers40!

Please register here.

We’ll be joined by:

Cristina Rathbone is an award-winning journalist, Episcopal priest, and spiritual director. She is the author of On the Outside Looking In: A Year in an Inner-City High School and A World Apart: Women, Prisons, and Life Behind Bars. In partnership with Episcopal Migration Ministries, she founded Neighbor to Neighbor, a national network that supports congregations as they accompany newly arrived asylum seekers. Rathbone is the mother of two sons and lives in Massachusetts.

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