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Julian of Norwich understands evil this way: Evil is “everything that is counter to peace and love.” Is taking away a law that guaranteed women
A week from tomorrow is Mother’s Day. It is also the third anniversary of our launching of these Daily Meditations, for we deliberately chose Mother’s Day
We have been speaking of Evil and how its opposite is not so much the Good as it is the Sacred. One rather recently new
The modern age was not only hostile to but ignorant of mysticism. This parallels its relationship of fealty to the idol called Patriarchy—which still reigns everywhere.
Julian of Norwich, the first woman to write a book in English, invented the word enjoy. She insists that “the fullness of joy is our birthright”—and it
Dorothee Soelle, like Bede Griffiths and Howard Thurman and many other mystic-prophets before her, recognizes the “external” factors of religion as being one thing, but
Two days ago was Hildegard of Bingen’s feast day. Though we did not mention it, on that day we did do a second-best thing: We
We have been meditating on bringing back the divine feminine which means, among other things, wisdom. Wisdom is feminine around the world. The Modern era
Julian recognizes the incarnation, what she calls the “leap of God” into human form and history, to be a deeply motherly act, an act of
Julian of Norwich lived through the worst pandemic in European history, the bubonic plague of the 14th century. Unlike many of her contemporaries (and ours),
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