Julian of Norwich: A Mystic With a Vaccine for Our Time

The wisdom shared in this book is phenomenal. Julian lived 700 years ago, yet her teachings and thoughts are very relevant to the events of the 21st Century. She lived in a time of pandemic: the bubonic plague was prevalent during her 80+ year life. She is one of the most optimistic, loving, sharing......more

Notes to self: Nook This suffered by virtue of reading it at the same time as I was reading 2 other books I liked quite a bit more. It also suffered because I just do NOT get Matthew Fox as an author. He writes on such interesting subjects, but his books seem like a jumble to me. A couple of other auth......more

I wish I'd had this book a year ago when the pandemic began. Julian lived through the bubonic plague, a pandemic that killed entire villages in medieval England. Yet her faith in God never faltered. I found her words wise and comforting. She was an amazing woman, unpublished in her own time, probabl......more

I loved this book and learned so much about Julian of Norwich, and writers such as Aquinas, Eckhart, and Hildegard of Bingen, that I hadn't known before. I also very much appreciated the huge reliance on quotes, which allows the reader to make their own journey with Julian's writings. By the end of......more

This book has much excellent content. Julian was amazingly perceptive and integrated into God's being. She lived in a time of intense pandemic and the way she responded has very valuable lessons as we live through the Covid-19 pandemic. In the time of the Plague which was much worse than our pandemi......more