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Shannon Evans

Shannon Evans is NCR spirituality and culture editor and the author of Feminist Prayers for My Daughter and Rewilding Motherhood. She speaks on topics related to parenthood as a spiritual practice and the contemplative creative life. Follow her on Instagram at @shannonkevans.

By this Author

Illustrations of the six Catholic female mystics in history from The Mystics Would Like a Word, written by Shannon K. Evans, NCR culture and spirituality editor. The illustrations are clockwise, from upper left, St. Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, St. Hildegard of Bingen, St. Thérèse of Lisieux, St. Teresa of Avila and St. Catherine of Siena. (Illustrations by Dani/andhersaints)

Book on mystics explores wisdom from sisters for modern times

Five out of the six featured in this book were avowed religious, and despite my earliest prejudices, their vocation was not because they were docile but precisely because they weren't.