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Did you know the newest episode has a reflection guide?
Where we meet God in the
wounds that won’t heal
and the prayers
that seem unanswered.
Hi, I'm Rachel.
I didn't start Sacred Thorns because I found the answer to suffering. I started it because I needed a place for the questions that remained.
There are enough places offering answers. Sacred Thorns is about presence.
Not fixing your suffering.
Finding God within it.
Not perfect endings.
The holy messy middle.
RECENT EPISODES
October 18, 2026: Season 2 - Episode 4
Abiding in Absence
What does it mean to abide when the thing you've prayed for is still missing? Through bare autumn branches, an empty bedroom, and the grief of unanswered prayers, Rachel Walters explores the pressure to fill life's empty spaces, the harm of spiritual bypassing, and the difference between explaining suffering and trusting God to redeem it. Abiding doesn't mean the absence stops hurting. It means learning to remain with God even when the room stays empty.
September 20, 2026: Season 2 - Episode 3
Abiding in Fruitfulness
What does it mean to live a fruitful life when the fruit you prayed for never came?
Rachel Walters explores infertility, spiritual motherhood, the painful language of “barrenness,” and the pressure to prove our lives matter, asking what changes when we stop measuring fruitfulness by what we produce and learn to abide instead.
August 16, 2026: Season 2 - Episode 2
Abiding in Community
When the church tells hurting women to "start your own group," it doesn't just miss the moment - it deepens the wound. Rachel Walters and Jacqueline Rivalksy unpack why so many women carrying infertility, singleness, widowhood, or other hidden crosses feel invisible in faith spaces, and what true abiding together actually looks like.
July 19, 2026: Season 2 - Episode 1
Abiding
When suffering lasts long enough, waiting stops feeling like a season and starts feeling like life. Rachel Walters opens Season 2 of Sacred Thorns in the long middle—the ordinary Tuesdays, unanswered prayers, and years when nothing seems to change—and asks what it actually means to remain faithful when there is no resolution in sight.
You don't need a tidy ending to have a holy story. You are not alone in the holy messy middle.
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