The Gift of Years:

More About Sister Joan

A founding member of The Global Peace Initiative of Women, a partner organization of the UN, Sister Joan Chittister works to develop a worldwide network of women peace builders. As co-chair of this group she has facilitated gatherings of spiritual leaders throughout the Middle East, in Asia, Africa, the Far East and Europe in an effort to spread an interfaith commitment to peace building, equality and justice for all peoples.         

 A Benedictine Sister of Erie, PA, Sister Joan is an international lecturer and award-winning author of 60 books. She has won 16 Catholic Press Association awards for her books, as well as numerous awards for her work for justice, peace, and equality, especially for women, in church and in society. The Time is Now: a call for uncommon courage, was published by Penguin Random House in 2019 and, in 2021, Random House is set to publish her latest book, The Monastic Heart.

Sister Joan is an international lecturer who has appeared with the Dali Lama, on “Meet the Press,” “Now with Bill Moyers” and on “Super Soul Sunday” with Oprah Winfrey in 2015 and 2019.

Additionally, she has been an interview guest on countless podcasts, radio programs and for magazines and documentaries.

To find out more about Sister Joan please visit her website: 

https://www.joanchittister.org/