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We have considered how central the experience of goodness is to Julian who lived through the severest pandemic of European history. How the search for
Julian warns us that our “faulty reason” can often, and especially when times are rough, render us “too blind to comprehend the wondrous wisdom of
Julian’s first advice about surviving a pandemic is not to deny the suffering that accompanies it. No denial! But her second advice and medicine for
In discussing Julian of Norwich, who was a feminist theologian 700 years before feminism, we have necessarily come up against the topic of patriarchy and
Yesterday we considered how Julian’s teachings are contrary to bullying, which puts control before wonder and domination before co-operation and power-over before compassion or power-with.
Two Daily Meditations ago, we considered Julian’s teaching vs. bullying. We mentioned how omnipresent bullying can be—it is, alas– not restricted to children’s playgrounds or
In yesterday’s DM we meditated on Julian’s insistence to grow up and celebrate differences and diversity and to put love first. And how she recognized
The divine feminine is not impressed with bullying. Bullying is the opposite of caring or compassion or even justice. It is domination; power-over; I rule,
To speak of goodness is to speak of hope. That is why Julian grounded her theology in a time of Europe’s most severe pandemic, in
This question arose for me on MLK Jr day this week when I heard the new poet laureate of San Francisco speak about his role
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