What Fire Cannot Finish

In fourteenth-century France, a woman wrote about a soul so free it no longer moved by fear.  She did not seek authority.  She did not challenge doctrine.  Living among the Beguines, outside formal vows and institutional protection, Marguerite Porete wrote The Mirror of Simple Souls, a book that traveled farther than she ever intended.  As her words spread quietly through homes, monasteries, and m...