Magdalene House: A Place about Mercy

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Magdalene House A PlAce About Mercy Sarah VanHooser Suiter Vanderbilt University Press Nashville © 2012 by Vanderbilt University Press Nashville, Tennessee 37235 All rights reserved First printing 2012 This book is printed on acid-free paper. Manufactured in the United States of America Title page illustration adapted from a painting by Sandra Binczek, a graduate of Magdalene House. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data on file ISBN 978-0-8265-1837-8 (printed hardcover) ISBN 978-0-8265-1838-5 (paperback) ISBN 978-0-8265-1839-2 (e-book) LC control number 2011038284 LC classification PT9876.22.A6933 Z78 2012 Dewey class number 839.73/8 In my own particular life, I know better than anybody else the places I’ve messed up, and I have learned more from mercy than from justice. And I don’t think the women at Magdalene were learning anything from the “justice” system. So I wanted this to be a place about mercy. —Becca Stevens, Magdalene House founder ...