Judith Wright Favor

Judith Wright Favor has published six books in three genres. Her writings draw upon work experience as a babysitter, berry-picker, library page, mail clerk, typist, commercial hot air balloonist, college counselor, teacher, pastor, retreat leader and spiritual companion. Judith composed her newest book, Friending Rosie: Respect on Death Row. in close collaboration with an incarcerated Latina woman.

She likes to write creative nonfiction, family memoir, book reviews, feminist faith-based fiction, and occasional poems. In the second of her forthcoming Beacons trilogy, The Beacons Ablaze, readers will meet Red, a teen girl who sets the sanctuary afire, and get reacquainted with five female church leaders who deal with the mess.

A native Oregonian educated in Washington and California, Favor earned degrees in sociology, divinity and psychology. She skied on Mount Lassen, backpacked in the Sierras, Cascades and Trinity Alps, swam in high mountain lakes and sailed on Lake Tahoe. She earned a private pilot’s license, and flew Serendipity, her hot air balloon, throughout Northern California. After she challenged Richard Bach to include females in an early edition of Jonathan Livingston Seagull, he named one for her.

Judith co-led a dozen trips of perspective to Haiti, immersing privileged white Americans in the gritty realities endured by the poorest people in the hemisphere. For more than a decade, she co-pastored UCC churches in San Francisco, and then led Stillpoint courses at Ghost Ranch in New Mexico. In between, she taught at Claremont School of Theology and spent countless weekends behind bars, teaching convicted felons to nonviolently settle disputes through the Alternatives to Violence Project. During a pilgrimage to historic Quaker sites in northern England, she scraped a rental van against a roadside hedge, and quickly traded driving on the wrong side of the road for traveling by bus.

An active octogenarian engaged in ministries of contemplative teaching and writing for publication, Judith Wright Favor savors adventures with friends, kids, grandkids and a great-grandson. She thrives in a beloved retirement community near Los Angeles.

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