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 ...
Voices of Ascension will present Canticle of the Sun in New York City, featuring works by Sofia Gubaidulina, Ellen Reid, and ...
The novel A Canticle for Leibowitz begins in the deserts of the American Southwest, some centuries after nuclear war devastates the earth. There, generations of Catholic monks copy and preserve the ...
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 ...
Opera has taken on AIDS, terrorism, reality TV and death row. Now, a new opera in Portland turns to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, a subject shot through with operatic possibilities. "The Canticle of ...
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 ...
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, ...