Carol Howard Merritt
Carol Howard Merritt is a founder of UNCO, author of Healing Spiritual Wounds, and cohost of God Complex Radio. Her blog is hosted by the Century.
My understanding of God has become a welcome object of gravity, as it moved from heady abstractions to my gut.
While women have historically been bound by family obligations, household chores, or desperate poverty, there have been monasteries throughout history that allowed some to focus on their vocation without those typical pressures.
There’s something amazing about holding your own book in your hands. Like magic, all of those stories and thoughts have moved from fleeting, drifting notions in your mind into the stark reality of paper and ink.
We were no longer strong women facing messy situations. We became the mess.
Sometimes we need a place where we are told, “You did nothing wrong.” Can our communities provide that space?
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