When Powerhouses Meet
C.S. Lewis & J.R.R. Tolkien Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony Desmond Tutu & Nelson Mandela Ralph Waldo Emerson […]
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Imagined Greetings from Hildegard of Bingen on Her Feast Day
I, Hildegard of Bingen, love to linger in rooms with no ceilings. I love to romp through the borderlands between
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Catherine of Genoa: Walking A Different Path
In early May of this year, things were going along pretty well. I was about to start a new job
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No Justice, No Peace: Mechthild of Magdeburg and The Long Lineage of Protest Poetry
Poets say the strangest things. I first learned this when I became absolutely preoccupied by Emily Dickinson in the fourth
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Teresa of Avila: Sandcastles and Hedgehogs
Back at the turn of the century, 24 years ago now, I led a Quiet Day at our church on
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The Journey of Evelyn Underhill
My parish has a spiritual growth program called Wellspring that, according to its mission statement, offers “programs and services (that)
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Allergies to Individualism
In the bookstore of the Ephrata Cloister in Ephrata, Pennsylvania, I found a slim volume called A Short, Easy, and Comprehensive Method of
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Knowing oneself from the very start
Do you remember who you wanted to be when you were six-years-old?
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Hadewijch of Brabant and Redemptive Suffering
So many of the saints noted in the Lesser Feasts and Fasts calendar are remembered in gendered ways.
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Mechthild of Magdeburg: Sex Positive Mystic
I was twenty-five years old before I finally realized my birth in 1964 had been the result of an unplanned pregnancy.
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