
Matricide, Misogyny, and the Reality of Evil
Julian’s fierce commitment to the divine feminine and deep love for the divine mother seems to stand in broad opposition to the oppression of women
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Julian’s fierce commitment to the divine feminine and deep love for the divine mother seems to stand in broad opposition to the oppression of women

We have observed in a recent DM that love is not sentimental for Julian or other creation mystics. Love has a fierce side to it,

The traditional definition for evil in the West has been privatio boni, privation of the good. This says a lot. It says that evil has

We are undergoing—again—a presidential impeachment which the constitution refers to as “high crimes and misdemeanors.” This is following on a mob scene at the nation’s

One side of compassion is called justice. This is the biblical meaning of compassion, which Eckhart names this way: “Compassion means justice.” Thomas Aquinas was

One thing that follows from bringing back the divine feminine is the primacy of love. Julian connects motherhood and compassion. “Compassion is a kind and

Julian teaches that “in our coming into being, God All-Wisdom is our natural Mother, supported by the boundless Love and Goodness of the Holy Spirit.

Yesterday we meditated on how Julian and Hildegard are sisters calling us to wisdom. Wisdom is feminine. She is missing in a patriarchal culture. And

Yesterday we meditated on the Book of Wisdom’s teaching that Wisdom is artisan of all that is. Both Julian and Hildegard of Bingen were sisters

Of all the wonderful teachings in the wisdom literature of Israel, a tradition that includes Job, Psalms, Wisdom, Ecclesiastes, Sirach, the Song of Songs, Lamentations,
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