March 12, 2008
Julian
When I started to seminary, I thought Julian of Norwich was a guy. When I found out she wasn’t, I got curious. Then I discovered that though she seemed a bit bananas, she was yet in constant demand for helping people who were stumbling along the Way. Me included.
She lived in some sort of loo-like cubicle attached to the side of a church in such a way that she could still see the altar and all the while be accessible to passersby. Maybe it was a precursor to drive-in windows, both of which have proven very handy to the general public and which, as well, offer some anonymity to them of us as wants it, like, for example, some with a not-so-ordinary lust for power? The church might take seriously to the idea.
I got a T-shirt for CP at GC2006 that says “God is not a boy’s name.” That sort of issue never seemed to bother Julian any, but I suspect she’d probably be at least mildly amused. Though I’d be the last to suggest it, maybe Presiding Bishop Katharine could open a few more doors if she just let go and let Jefferts, or maybe even Jeff, and not only fool some more seminarians, but a few primates, as well.?
No? Just forget I ever said it. For all is well and all will be well, and all that’s well will end well or whatever. Julian said it in either her right or left mind. I believe it, and I’m even more certain about it than ever now that Katharine by whatever name has got the con.
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