Welcome to the third in my series of Hidden Voices: The Hidden Women in Church History in their own Words. Last month we read the prison diary of Vibia Perpetua, the third-century martyr and the first woman to write an autobiography. This post will share the writings of two women from the fourth and fifthContinue reading “Hidden Voices: Faltonia Betita Proba and Aelia Eudocia Augusta”
Category Archives: Women of Church History
Hidden Voices Perpetua and Felicitas
My last post, Hidden Voices, set off a brand-new series on the hidden women in church history in their own words. This introduction showed that women have always been thinkers, writers, theologians, and teachers throughout history, but many of their stories have been forgotten, or worse, deliberately suppressed. In this series, I want to bringContinue reading “Hidden Voices Perpetua and Felicitas”
Hidden Voices
The Hidden Women in Church History in Their Own Words “No Woman’s Chit-Chat” – Argula von Grumbach A few weeks ago, I had the privilege of speaking at Solas Festival, near Perth, on the subject of women in Church history. As both a writer and a woman of faith, I have long been fascinated byContinue reading “Hidden Voices”
Abbess Hilda of Whitby
The Revd Hazel M Aucken writes, “I’ve been following Sue’s blogs of early Christian female pioneers with interest, not least because I trained for ordination at St Hild’s College, based in Sheffield, Mirfield, York and online. It’s an amazing seat of inspirational learning, founded as recently as 2017, with a name `chosen to capture our rootedness inContinue reading “Abbess Hilda of Whitby”
Hildegard of Bingen and the Incarnation
This is my third post about Hildegard of Bingen, a twelfth-century nun from what is now Germany. She was an abbess, visionary, poet, physician, prophet, preacher, theologian, political advocate, and a composer. In my first post, I outlined Hildegard’s life and work, and in my second, The Green Finger of God, I examined her writingContinue reading “Hildegard of Bingen and the Incarnation”
Green Finger of God
In my last post, I looked at Hildegard of Bingen and gave an outline of her life and work. Continuing this month, I want to go a little deeper by examining her teaching and music. This summer, I was introduced to Hildegard’s concept of the Green Finger of God and her idea of the interconnectednessContinue reading “Green Finger of God”
Hildegard of Bingen
Women of Church History I attended Scotland’s Solas Festival in June this year, and in the programme, I noticed a workshop titled Praying with Hildegard of Bingen: Where’s our Place in the Natural World? After a scathing comment from a friend, I was determined that, out of the whole festival, it was the one workshopContinue reading “Hildegard of Bingen”
Leaving Bethany 