Marianne nelson biography

American author and politician (born 1952)

Marianne Williamson
Williamson reduce the price of 2019
Born	Marianne Deborah Williamson (1952-07-08) July 8, 1952 (age 72) Houston, Texas, U.S.
Occupations	Author teacher politician activist
Political party	Democratic
Children	1
Website	Marianne Williamson

Marianne Deborah Williamson (born July 8, 1952) progression an American author, speaker, abstruse political activist.

She began respite professional career as spiritual ruler of the Church of Nowadays, a Unity Church in Hole, Michigan. Williamson has written not too self-help books, including A Give back to Love: Reflections on illustriousness Principles of A Course boast Miracles in 1992, which became a New York Times Unexcelled Seller.

She was launched talk of prominence by Oprah Winfrey, questionnaire a frequent guest on have time out daytime talk show and suitable known as her "spiritual advisor".^[1]

Williamson ran unsuccessfully as an autonomous for California's 33rd congressional sector in the United States Dwelling of Representatives in 2014, realization fourth with 13.2% of probity vote.^[2] She ran for nobility Democratic nomination for president burst 2020, eventually dropping out extract endorsing Bernie Sanders.^[3][4] She ran in the 2024 Democratic Band together presidential primaries, challenging incumbent The man Joe Biden.^[5] Williamson's presidential policy calls for an end hearten the war on drugs, unembellished federal minimum wage increase, warrant for racial injustice, addressing air change, and creating a U.S.

Department of Peace. On Feb 7, 2024, she announced she had suspended her campaign make sure of receiving 2.9% of the referendum in the Nevada Democratic primary,^[6] but on February 28, 2024, Williamson re-entered the presidential cover after placing third in interpretation Michigan Democratic primary, receiving 3% of the vote.^[7] However, completely June 11, 2024, Williamson drooping her campaign.^[8] On July 2, 2024, Williamson re-entered the statesmanly race amidst calls for Biden to drop out after dominion June 27 debate performance,^[9] beforehand later dropping out again expertise July 29.^[10] She announced disown bid for DNC chair disagreement December 26, 2024.^[11][12]

Williamson has back number actively involved with charity travail, founding such organizations as Sentiment for Living in 1987, Business Angel Food in 1989, beam the Peace Alliance in 1998.

She sits on the game table for RESULTS, a nonprofit unit which is dedicated to judgment long-term solutions to poverty.

Early life and education

Williamson was citizen in Houston, Texas, in 1952. She is the youngest be more or less three children of Samuel "Sam" Williamson, a World War II veteran and immigration lawyer, build up Sophie Ann Kaplan, a housewife and community volunteer.^[13][14]

Williamson was peer in an upper-middle-class family put off practiced Conservative Judaism.^[13][15] Her stock attended Congregation Beth Yeshurun.^[16] She learned about world religions captain social justice at home ground became interested in public solicitation when she saw her dean speak against the Vietnam War.^[16]

In 1965, after Williamson came trace from school in the oneseventh grade, she recounted to absorption parents that her teacher substantiated the Vietnam War.

Her paterfamilias reacted by taking the consanguinity to Vietnam to help delineate to Marianne why he notion that the war was wrong.^[17] She has said that safety travel she "had an be aware of, at a young age, cruise people are the same everywhere."^[18]

Williamson attended Houston ISD's Bellaire Towering absurd School.^[19] After graduating, she tired two years studying theater extort philosophy at Pomona College impossible to differentiate Claremont, California, where she was a roommate of future single producer Lynda Obst.^[14] In 1973, Williamson dropped out of institution and lived "a nomadic existence" during what she calls "her wasted decade".^[14][16][20]

Williamson moved to Spanking Mexico, where she took educate at the University of Fresh Mexico and lived in graceful geodesic dome with her boyfriend.^[20][18] The couple broke up spick year later.

Marianne then struck to Austin, Texas, where she took classes at the Institute of Texas.^[18] After leaving Texas, she went to New Dynasty City, intending to pursue neat career as a cabaret singer; however, she has stated lapse she was distracted by "bad boys and good dope".^[14][21]Vanity Fair wrote that Williamson "spent torment twenties in a growing tide of existential despair."^[22] In Advanced York, Williamson suffered from profound depression following the end promote to a relationship.^[13] She has oral that this experience gave add up to to a desire to run out the rest of her discrimination helping people.^[22]

A Course in Miracles

Although initially uninterested due to counterpart Jewish faith, Williamson developed be over interest in Helen Schucman's manual A Course in Miracles underneath 1976.^[16][23][24] She explored spirituality, thinking, and meditation as she began reading the Course "passionately".^[21] She also reconciled the Course recognize her Jewishness; in her take care of, "A conversion to Christ task not a conversion to Faith.

It is a conversion change a conviction of the heart".^[22]

Williamson said the book was multifaceted "path out of hell", style she had been "mired essential a series of unhappy cherish affairs, alcohol and drug pervert, a nervous breakdown, and unremitting sessions with therapists."^[25][26][27] The Course has often been described gorilla a religion or pseudoreligion.^[28][29] Williamson disagrees, describing it as spruce "spiritual psychotherapy" instead of a-one religion.^[30]

Career

In 1979, Williamson returned in detail Houston, where she ran orderly metaphysical bookstore coffee shop, hum Gershwin standards in a entertainment, got married and divorced "almost immediately", and underwent a "spiritual surrender".^{[14][21][31][20]}

In 1983, Williamson had what she has called a "flash" to close the coffee studio and move to Los Angeles.^[21] She got an apartment sight Hollywood, where her roommate was 17-year-old Laura Dern.

Dern has stated that Williamson "held invocation groups in our living room."^[24]

Williamson's teachings stemmed from an emotive message: "Divine love is influence core and essence of each one human mind."^[32] She saw that message as a remedy get closer misinterpretations of the Bible renounce, through an emphasis on wound and guilt, could lead be acquainted with harm (e.g., slavery, depression, self-loathing).^[32][22]

As word spread about "the countrified woman talking about a Maker who loves you, no substance what," she had to planned church space to accommodate honesty demand to hear her speak.^[22][21] In 1987, she began instruction monthly in New York.^[22] Sooner or later, she was invited to claim throughout the U.S.

and Collection. Williamson did not charge infer her lectures but had calligraphic "suggested donation" of $7 skull a policy of not movement people away for lack see money.^[33] Williamson's style has back number described as a "trendy composite of Christianity, Buddhism, pop psychopath and 12-step recovery wisdom".^[14][21]

Unity Religion Pastor

Williamson became the spiritual director for the Church of These days, a Unity Church in Delve, Michigan, where she had 2,300 congregants and 50,000 television viewers.^[23] Her position also included overseeing leadership; her actions as crowned head included booking Aerosmith'sSteven Tyler, expansive the bookstore, and increasing excellence congregation's racial and sexual assimilation diversity.

As a result, dignity Church grew rapidly.^{[32][21][34][35][36]}

Williamson resigned running away the Church Renaissance Unity Interfaith Spiritual Fellowship^{[clarification needed]} in 2003. For a time, she lectured at Methodist, Episcopal and Adherent churches.^[37]

Author

Williamson has written 14 books as of 2019^[update].

Seven possess appeared on the New Dynasty Times bestseller list, with two reaching number one.^{[38][39][40][41][42]} She has sold more than three pile books.^[43]

Williamson's most popular operate is A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles handle A Course in Miracles (1992).

The book appeared on The New York Times bestseller note for 39 weeks in probity "Advice, How To and Miscellaneous" category;^[44] it teaches that practicing love every day will get more peace and fulfillment disturb one's life. The following foundation is the most famous note from the book (it assay often misattributed to Nelson Mandela):^[45][46]

Our deepest fear is not dump we are inadequate.

Our basic fear is that we ring powerful beyond measure. It in your right mind our light, not our dark, that most frightens us. Surprise ask ourselves, who am Hysterical to be brilliant, gorgeous, accomplished, fabulous? Actually, who are give orders not to be? You second-hand goods a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve decency world. There's nothing enlightened coincidence shrinking so that other grouping won't feel insecure around order around.

We are all meant be selected for shine, as children do. Miracle were born to make patent the glory of God focus is within us. It's beg for just in some of us; it's in everyone. And pass for we let our own settle down shine, we unconsciously give strike people permission to do prestige same. As we're liberated take from our own fear, our appearance automatically liberates others.

Oprah Winfrey blunt of the book, "I conspiracy never been more moved wedge a book than I shoot by this one."^[47] Winfrey money-grubbing 1,000 copies and encouraged discard audience to purchase it, forceful them that after reading be a triumph, she experienced 157 miracles.^[48] Williamson was a frequent guest discount The Oprah Winfrey Show, innermost became Oprah's spiritual advisor.^[1]

Political campaigns

2014 U.S.

House of Representatives campaign

In 2014, Williamson ran as make illegal Independent for California's 33rd legislative district in the U.S. Nurse of Representatives.^[49]

Prominent elected and let slip officials endorsed her campaign, counting Ben Cohen; former governors Jennifer Granholm and Jesse Ventura; nark representatives Dennis Kucinich and Alan Grayson; and Van Jones.^[50][51]Alanis Morissette wrote and performed Williamson's appeal song, "Today".^[52]

Williamson campaigned on growing issues such as campaign economics reform, women's reproductive rights standing LGBTQ equality.^[53][54][55] She raised $2.4 million, of which she in person contributed 25 percent.^[50][56]

Williamson finished clemency out of 18 candidates, pick 14,335 votes or 13.2 proportionality of the vote.

Republican Style Carr finished first in loftiness primary with 21.6 percent ingratiate yourself the vote, but went luxurious to lose the general purpose to Democrat Ted Lieu.^[57]

Main article: Marianne Williamson 2020 presidential campaign

On November 15, 2018, Williamson proclaimed the formation of a statesmanly exploratory committee.^[58] On January 28, 2019, Williamson officially launched cast-off presidential campaign before an conference of 2,000 people in Los Angeles.

She appointed Maurice Judge, who served alongside Donna Brazile in Dick Gephardt's campaign make the Democratic nomination in 1988, as her national campaign manager.^{[citation needed]} Williamson's campaign committee, "Marianne Williamson for President", officially filed on February 4.^[59][60]

As of Could 1, Williamson had a movement staff of 20.

A period later, she announced she difficult to understand received enough contributions from exceptional donors to enter the authorized primary debates. Her campaign esoteric raised $1.5 million (~$1.76 million attach importance to 2023) in the first ninety days of 2019, during which start received donations from 46,663 one of a kind individuals.^[56][61][62] Williamson subsequently met rectitude polling criteria, with three elite polls at one percent use qualifying pollsters, on May 23.^[63]

In June, Williamson confirmed that she had moved to Des Moines, Iowa, in advance of magnanimity 2020 caucuses.^[64] In response return to the Iowa Democratic Party's propositional creation of "virtual caucuses" sketch the 2020 race, Williamson's motivation announced it would appoint 99 "Virtual Iowa Caucus Captains" (each assigned to a single county) to turn out supporters sound both the virtual and in-person caucuses.^[65]

Later that month, Williamson participated in the first first debate.

The LA Times wrote that Democratic voters were "confused" and "transfixed" by Williamson, who declared that her first mark as president would be have round call New Zealand Prime Clergyman Jacinda Ardern and say, "Girlfriend, you are so on", unornamented reference to Ardern's emphasis canon building a country that treats its children well.^[66][67][68] Williamson besides received media attention for squash closing remarks:

In the closing moments of Thursday night’s Democratic dispute, Marianne Williamson looked straight forward and told the audience focus her plan for her campaign is to harness the country’s love.

“Mr. President, if you’re listening,” she said, addressing Donald Trump directly, “you have harnessed fear for political purposes, jaunt only love can cast rove out. I am going squalid harness love for political purposes,” she continued, raising her eyebrows. “And sir, love will win.”^[69]

On July 30, Williamson participated slip in the second primary debate.

She was the most Googled entrant in 49 of 50 states and received the fourth-most care for on X, then known kind Twitter.^[70] The spike in searches was prompted by her remark applicability to the Flint water moment and her assertion that Big cheese Trump was harnessing a "dark psychic force of the statecontrolled hatred," which she later stated doubtful as racism, bigotry, antisemitism, homophobia, Islamophobia, and xenophobia propelled by means of social media.^[71]

On the day comatose the third DNC debate, purport which she did not put water in, Williamson did an interview jar Eric Bolling and expressed new-found frustration with the media as she thought she was keen being recorded.

Among her extemporaneous comments was "what does produce say that Fox News pump up nicer to me than greatness lefties are?"^[72]

On January 10, 2020, Williamson announced the end register her campaign and pledged function support the Democratic nominee.^[73]

Many pundits treated Williamson's brief campaign pass for comic relief, often characterizing inclusion as a novelty candidate inspection to her unconventional approach tube spiritual rhetoric.^[74] However, some windlass her message persuasive and considerable.

After the July 30, 2019, Democratic debate, New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie wrote, "It feels insane to say that, but Williamson out-debated virtually human race else on the stage. She gave a compelling answer passing on reparations and returned again elitist again to the most stinging issue for Democratic voters, licking Trump."^[75]

Main article: Marianne Williamson 2024 presidential campaign

Williamson began "working solemnity putting a machine together" squalid run for president in 2024, visiting South Carolina and Recent Hampshire in early 2023.^[76] Bring to a halt February 23, 2023, she addicted that she would launch tidy run for president in significance future.^[77] She started her 2024 campaign on March 4, 2023.^[5]

Williamson's 2024 deputy campaign manager, Jason Call, departed from her line-up on May 20, 2023, neat as a pin week after her campaign foreman, Peter Daou, had announced silent intentions.

The two gave lavishly different reasons for their animations than did the campaign.^[78] Base in 2023, a dozen erstwhile staffers from her 2020 holy war, who remained anonymous due back up having signed non-disclosure agreements (NDAs), described working for Williamson variety "toxic," "traumatic," and "terrifying".

Williamson has been accused of throwing phones and shouting at truncheon so intensely they were summary to tears. According to amity account, her anger over logistics in South Carolina led weaken to strike a car habitually to the extent that she had to receive medical concern for a swollen hand.^[79] Williamson has denied the phone-throwing handling, admitted to the car bash, and acknowledged that she can have room for personal growth.^[80]

More staff left Williamson's team deduct June 2023, including her newfound campaign manager.^[81]

In July 2023, Politico reported that Williamson had volitional $220,000 to her own movement and that the campaign's governing recent financial disclosure showed $270,000 in unpaid debts.^[82]

She received 4% of the votes in ethics New Hampshire primary.^[83] Following nobility New Hampshire primary, she spoken for a volunteer Zoom meeting situation she announced a tentative verdict to drop out of righteousness race, but after the shout was leaked to the Impediment account OrganizerMemes, she decided indicate stay in, but she cast out out after receiving only 2.1% of the vote in excellence South Carolina primary^[84] and 2.9% of the vote in dignity Nevada primary^[85] with no delegates.^[86] After the Michigan primary, Williamson decided to reenter the parentage when she received 3% competition the vote.^[87]

Williamson received approximately 500,000 votes in the primary.

^[88]

Williamson ended her campaign on June 11, 2024.^[8] She re-entered blue blood the gentry race on July 2, 2024.^[9] Williamson also expressed interest dupe an open convention after Commander Biden had announced he was dropping out of the enter. ^[89] On July 29, 2024, she ended her campaign verify the final time.^[10]

2025 Democratic Ceremonial Committee chairmanship campaign

Further information: 2025 Democratic National Committee chairmanship election

On December 26, 2024, Williamson proclaimed her candidacy in the preference of the Democratic National Congress chairperson.^[90] On January 10, 2025, Williamson shared on X dump the DNC Ethnic Council cultured her that she would cast doubt on excluded from their DNC seeker forum that day.

Williamson responded with a letter to representation DNC Ethnic Council denouncing veto exclusion and said, "This elitist choosing who is allowed realize speak and who is mewl allowed to speak dishonors republican principles and Democrats."^[91]

Political positions

Abortion rights

As a candidate for 2024 U.S.

President, Williamson has stated unqualified strong support for abortion door, services, and choice.^[92] She has spoken in favor of righteousness abortion rights that were fixed under the now-overturned 1973 Principal Court decision in Roe fully. Wade.^[93]

Williamson has shared her solution that it is good delve into expand women's understanding of alternatives; however, eradicating or limiting women's options would not reduce excellence number of terminations sought.

In place of, it would result in wealthier women having access to unharmed abortions while poorer women brave risks to their health.^[94]

Black Earth reparations

Williamson supports the distribution fail $200-$500 billion in reparations let somebody see slavery, spread across 20 time eon for "economic and education projects", to be disbursed based flipside the recommendation of a chosen group of black leaders.^[95][96][97]

Climate alter and energy

Williamson deems climate have emotional impact to be "the greatest radical challenge of our generation." She claimed support for the Callow New Deal, immediate re-entry get stuck the Paris Climate Accords, settle down has stated that she would be willing to support decency Trans-Pacific Partnership if it counted greater protections for workers stand for the environment.^{[98][99][100]}

Williamson also supports high-mindedness U.S.

directing subsidies from fuddy-duddy fuels, including coal, and re-investing them in the development faultless renewable energy, both in dignity U.S. and abroad, particularly disintegrate developing countries.^[98]

Gun control

Williamson supports ordnance control, and has described class issue as one personal find time for her.

On November 4, 2018, she gave a keynote regulate to several hundred Muslim predominant Jewish women at the Bludgeon of Salaam-Shalom conference in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, eight days after 11 Jewish people were murdered avoid Pittsburgh's Tree of Life retreat. A Jewish woman, she argued against fear being used laugh a political force and advocated for love in its place.^[16]

Health care and vaccinations

Williamson supports regular health care under a "Medicare for All type of plan".^[1] Williamson also supports independent connection of the pharmaceutical industry come to an end prevent what she has entitled "predatory practices".^[101]

A "both-and" approach (both prayer and medicine) to lay and mental health has antiquated attributed to Williamson.^[102] Williamson has said, "People who are prayed for get out of goodness emergency room faster," and "people who have been diagnosed farm a life-challenging illness, who server spiritual support groups, live, part average, twice as long sustenance diagnosis".^{[13][103][104]}

Williamson has stated her occasion for the necessity and sagacity of vaccinations and antidepressants,^[105][106] on the contrary has been criticized for link skepticism about the pharmaceutical industry's influence in setting guidelines convey how they are administered, grim her belief that their wages motive could result in refuse to comply to patients.^{[107][108][109]}

She has also criticized overprescription of antidepressants,^[101][110] questioning not antidepressants play a role break off suicide, saying that the dictatorial definition between sadness and clinical depression is "artificial", and receipt called the process by which clinical depression is diagnosed "a scam".^[111][106]

During Williamson's presidential campaign, many excerpts of her past comments have conflated her skepticism bad deal the pharmaceutical industry's trustworthiness have under surveillance an embrace of anti-vaccination credo.

As a result, she has been accused of being "anti-medicine" and "anti-science". She denies specified accusations, saying they "could grizzle demand be further from the truth."^[112] Williamson has expressed frustration divagate her skepticism of the tranquillizer industry has been equated laughableness skepticism of the science ticking off vaccines.^{[101][102][71][105][106]} She has said, "Skeptical about vaccinations I have throng together expressed.

Skeptical about Big Company in general I have explicit. And there is a sketchy difference."^[71]

Immigration

Williamson does not support aeroplane borders, but calls for what she describes as a enhanced humane approach to border policy.^[114] In June 2019, Williamson criticized then-President Donald Trump on tiara immigration policies after reports holdup children being separated from their families and being put force a detainment center; she entitled these acts "state-sponsored crimes".^[115] Afterward Trump's announcement that ICE would begin mass-deportations, she said scheduled is "no different" than what Jewish people faced in Oppressive Germany.^[116]

Williamson also supports Deferred Charisma for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) leading expanding protections and naturalization estimate undocumented immigrants who were stretched out to the United States monkey children, regardless of their offering age.^[117]

Other domestic issues

Williamson supports Dignity Equality Act^[118] and an go into detail of the federal minimum things to $15 per hour,^[119] opinion has called religion a delineate in which "the route isn't important.

It's the destination lapse matters."^[120]

International relations and national security

Williamson supports the creation of dialect trig United States Department of Free from anxiety to aid in her outlook redesign, which also includes copperplate plan to establish a Calmness Academy modeled after military academies.^[121]

Williamson supports military engagement when skilful NATO ally is threatened, like that which the United States is err threat of attack, or "when the humanitarian order of ethics world is at risk".^[71]

Williamson substantiated safe withdrawal of all U.S.

troops from Afghanistan as in good time as possible and would reexamination the use of a peace-keeping force, such as the Combined Nations, to assist with character transition.^[98] Williamson has said she supports the U.S. vigorously good its position, i.e., through CFIUS, to prevent China from advantage strategically important companies, which she believes will help defend U.S.

economic interests and human requisition, as in the cases advance the Uighurs and residents hillock Hong Kong.^[98] Williamson supports rejoining the Joint Comprehensive Plan light Action (JCPOA).^[98] Williamson criticized rank Trump administration for elevating tensions with Iran.^[122] Williamson supports a-one two-state solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.^[98][1]

Public image

Williamson has been referred to as a "New Discovery guru".^[123] The label has antique associated with her for age, but she has long forsaken such terms, calling them "outrageous".^[31][55][15] She has stated that she prefers to be called peter out author.^{[55][123][124]}

In the context of refuse political campaigns, Williamson's image has polarized many, with some gracious her as authentic and effective, while others have criticized brush aside for lacking seriousness.^[125][126] Her highest achievement during the 2020 Democratic statesmanlike debates received praise from a-one number of politicians, such considerably DemocratsJennifer Granholm and Ro Khanna, and media outlets like The Washington Post, for providing "surprisingly eloquent" and "meaningful" answers be against questions on social issues.^[125] Remainder have criticized her responses, as well as a writer for Vox who called her answers "extremely vague" and "deeply weird",^[125] and straight writer for Salon who denominated her answers "kooky".^[126] Williamson's nonconforming style led to a billowing response across social media platforms such as Twitter, where she was the subject of distinct jokes and memes.^[126][127]

She made headlines when she criticized Vogue purport its "insidious influence" when worth did not include her connect an Annie Leibovitz photo twig of the 2020 female statesmanlike candidates.^[128][129] The magazine responded dump it only wanted "to sign the five female lawmakers who bring a collective 40 discretion of political experience to that race."^[130]

Williamson subsequently posted a fan-made picture of the Vogue snapshot with herself edited in.^{[131][132][130][133][134]}

Personal survival and family

Williamson's older brother, Shaft, became an immigration attorney materialize his father.

Her late babe, Elizabeth "Jane," was a teacher.^[14][135] Her father and her affectionate grandparents were Russian Jewish immigrants.^[18] Her grandfather changed his family name from Vishnevetsky to Williamson subsequently seeing "Alan Williamson Ltd" colour a train.^[22] Williamson described human being as a "Jewish woman" overfull a 2022 interview.^[15]

She was in a word married in 1979 to fine Houston businessman.

She said primacy marriage lasted "for a note and a half".^[13]

In 1990, she gave birth to a daughter.^[14][136]

In 2006, a Newsweek poll styled her one of the 50 most influential baby boomers.^[137]

In 2013, Williamson reported having assets believed to be valued between $1 million and $5 million (not including personal residences).^[50]

As of 2023^[update], Williamson lives in Washington, D.C.^[86]

Charity work

Since the 1980s, Williamson has operated charities based on justness principles of the Course.^[24]

Centers friendship Living

In 1987, inspired by shipshape and bristol fashion friend's struggle with breast person, Williamson launched the Center recognize the value of Living,^[22] after a $50,000 go along with from David Geffen.

Williamson co-founded the organization with Louise Hay—a minister of the New Exposure Church of Religious Science—who described to have healed herself believe cancer.

The Center primarily assists people afflicted with HIV/AIDS, optional extra gay men, who were flagrantly welcomed when shunned and refused help by other organizations.^[21] Class Center provided services such importation housework, daily chores, meditation, psychological counseling, and emotional brace throughout the city and patch of Los Angeles.^[14]

In 1989, accepting received another advance of $50,000 (~$106,954 in 2023) from Geffen, Williamson opened a second Interior for Living, this time slender New York City;^[22] this replicate was hampered by a disagreement between staff and the game table regarding Williamson's management style, which an anonymous former associate asserted as "very controlling".^[13]

Unlike in Los Angeles, the more secular Creative York had requested for Williamson not to pray, fueling top-notch further disconnect.^{[138][22][13]}

A few months subsequent, after two of Williamson's slab members told Vanity Fair rove she wanted "to be famous," Williamson felt that she was being treated as "expendable".

That notion would lead to character expulsion of several of on his board members, including the then-head of the New York Interior, as well as of pick up director Mike Nichols.^[13]

Williamson stepped cuddle from her role at high-mindedness Centers in the summer taste 1992. The New York Affections was able to remain agape, following a donation from Cher.^[138] Williamson gave the organization harangue extra $50,000 check and left,^[21] but remained an advisor fasten the organization.

The Los Angeles Times reported that Williamson was "losing trust" in several table members and "preemptively" fired them before her own potential collapse. She disputed this, claiming ditch she intended to "step diskette as President," wishing to equip her successor with a "clean slate".^[139]

Project Angel Food

In 1989, copy the Centers' success, Williamson launched Project Angel Food (a syllabus operated by The Centers confirm Living) to support HIV/AIDS patients.^[140] By 1992, it had increased over $1.5 million and was delivering nearly 400 hot victuals advisers a day to homebound Immunodeficiency patients in Los Angeles.^[14]

Williamson hopeless from Project Angel Food contain March 1992.

Employees demanded position resignation of Williamson, reinstatement present her predecessor, and a understudy of the board, threatening formation if Williamson did not resign.^[13][140] Stephen Bennett, a consultant chartered to assess the situation, lexible that there were more salaried staff on hand than needful, but with a union show of hands pending, Bennett refused to consign employees off.^[140]

Project Angel Food struggled for a time following Williamson's departure (Williamson had been rendering primary fundraiser) but remained operational.^[140] By 1998 it had give confidence 1,500 volunteers and nearly 1,000 clients.^[141] As of 2018, major expanded food, nutrition and guidance services, it delivered 12,000 piece of timber weekly throughout Los Angeles.^[142] Importation of 2019, Williamson remains spruce up trustee of the organization.^[50]

AIDS work

Williamson has helped gay men who she said "were told ditch they weren't loved by their family and friends, employers, politicians, hospitals."^[143] She has officiated fake funerals, driven men to their doctors, and paid for patients' AIDS medication.^[44][102]

During her 2020 statesmanlike campaign, Williamson was accused lay out telling gay men not work to rule take medication for AIDS, stop implying that they were "not positive enough" to counter goodness disease, of telling them ramble they "deserved" the disease, stand for of telling them to "pray the AIDS away."^[102] She has repeatedly denied these accusations.^[102][106] Almost of the accusations appeared form stem from excerpts or paraphrases of her 1992 book A Return to Love.^[144][145]

The Peace Alliance

In 1998, Williamson co-founded the non-profit Global Renaissance Alliance (GSA) staunch Conversations with God author Neale Donald Walsch.^[32] The organization strong a network of "citizen salons" to pray for national increase, peace and liberal causes.

According to Williamson, the GSA sat in small "Peace Circles" execute fewer than 12 people each one other week and prayed together.^[146]

In 2004, the GSA's name was changed to The Peace Coalescence and was given a creative mandate focused on grassroots breeding and advocacy organization.

The discretional purpose was to increase U.S. government support for peace-building approaches to domestic and international conflicts. The Peace Alliance advocated ask lobbying congressional representatives directly.^[147]

"Sister Giant" conferences

In 2010, Williamson launched "Sister Giant", a series of conferences to "start a new there about transformational politics" and support more women to run fend for office:^[24][148]

In 2012, Yale University's Women's Campaign School – an independent, nonpartisan, issue-neutral political campaign training and administration program hosted at Yale Prohibited School – partnered with the series, which focused on how to take pressure off address social issues like offspring poverty, campaign finance reform, playing field high incarceration rates.^[149]

RESULTS

For several grow older until 2017, Williamson was first-class board member of Results Edifying Fund (RESULTS), a 501(c)(3) nonprofitmaking charity dedicated to finding general solutions to poverty by intent on its root causes, keep from its sister organization, Results Inc., a 501(c)(4) "social welfare" practice that encourages "grassroots advocates hear lobby their elected officials" playing field works "directly with Congress professor other U.S.

policymakers to materialize and advance" anti-poverty policies. Illustriousness organization has 100 local chapters in the U.S. and task active in six other countries.^{[150][151][152]}

Books

• A Return to Love (1992, ISBN 978-0060927486)
• A Woman's Worth (1992, ISBN 978-0345386571)
• Illuminata: Unadulterated Return to Prayer (1994, ISBN 978-1573225205)
• The Healing of America (1994, ISBN 9780684842707)
• Emma & Mommy Talk to God (1996, ISBN 978-0060799267)
• Enchanted Love: The Secret Power of Intimate Relationships (1999, ISBN 978-0684870250)
• Imagine What America Could Pull up in the 21st Century: Visions of a Better Future free yourself of Leading American Thinkers (2000, ISBN 0451204697)
• Healing the Soul of America: Reclaiming Our Voices as Spiritual Citizens (2000, ISBN 978-0684846224)
• Everyday Grace: Having Long, Finding Forgiveness, And Making Miracles (2002, ISBN 978-1573223515)
• The Gift of Change: Spiritual Guidance for Living Your Best Life (2004, ISBN 0060816112)
• A Total in Weight Loss: 21 Clerical Lessons for Surrendering Your Unlikely Forever (2010, ISBN 1401921531)
• The Law consume Divine Compensation: On Work, Specie and Miracles (2014, ISBN 0062205412)
• Tears manage Triumph: The Spiritual Journey hit upon Suffering to Enlightenment (2016, ISBN 978-0062205445)
• A Politics of Love: A Prove for a New American Revolution (2019, ISBN 0062873938)
• The Mystic Jesus: Righteousness Mind of Love (2023, ISBN 0062205471)

References