The cover of “Canticle” depicts a woman in a vibrant red, hooded cloak swirling away from the reader. It hints at what’s inside: a mystical story that immerses us in an earlier century, in the vein of ...
Even as the church disappoints on the question of women's diaconate, contemporary women are producing serious work articulating female religious experience. Janet Rich Edwards, an epidemiologist at ...
On the first page of “Canticle,” by Janet Rich Edwards, we see a 17-year-old girl walk toward the stake where she must be burned to death. “Witnesses will later swear the girl was lit like a taper, ...
Two figures will always haunt the human imagination: the woman in ecstasy, and the woman in madness. This enduring fascination may stem as much from the paper-thin line that separates the two states ...
The cover of “Canticle” depicts a woman in a vibrant red, hooded cloak swirling away from the reader. It hints at what’s inside: a mystical story that immerses us in an earlier century, in the vein of ...
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