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On Catherine of Siena: An Interview with Shelley Emling, Author of Setting the World on Fire

You’re not a Roman Catholic, but you just wrote a book on one of the church’s most beloved saints. Why did you choose to write about a saint, and why Catherine of Siena? I’ve made a habit of writing about strong, interesting women. I wrote a book about Mary Anning, a fossil hunter in the […]

My Saint Margaret

I have come across a few genuine miracles in my life. The Rev. Dr. Margaret Neill was one of them. I remember the first time I met her. I must have been in that impressionable teen/tween phase, and I had never met a woman preacher. It had always been men: Roman Catholic men with their […]