Ep. 20: All Shall be Well

Young Heretics

Spencer Klavan

Education, Society & Culture

4.9 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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If you really want to talk pandemics, then let's talk Julian of Norwich. She lived in religious seclusion, but she understood deeply that there are no guarantees in life—no safety other than in God. In this episode of "Young Heretics," Spencer Klavan talks through the weird, intense, and powerful visions of Julian and what they say about God and womanhood.

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0:00.0	I deliberately wanted to be ill to the point of death.
0:04.5	I wished for no earthly comfort,
0:07.3	but to undergo every kind of pain,
0:10.1	every physical and spiritual suffering I would have if I were dying.
0:18.6	Welcome back to Young Heretics.
0:19.8	It's a bit of a weird one today.
0:22.4	Julian of Norwich.
0:23.8	I don't know how many people will or will not have heard of Julian of Norwich.
0:28.0	She was a 14th century English mystic.
0:32.2	So that is to say a Christian who had visions,
0:35.8	visions of the divine visions of divine love,
0:38.0	visions of God, and so forth.
0:39.8	He was born in 1343,
0:42.1	and so just after the time of the Magna Carta,
0:46.4	which we talked about with Senator Ted Cruz,
0:48.6	but before the time of revolution,
0:50.4	which we talked about in the Milton episode.
0:52.6	So we haven't really covered a ton of this period of English history
0:57.4	when filling of Norwich lives.
0:59.3	It was a crap time to be alive in many ways.
1:04.0	I think like the worst of Monty Python, yeah.
1:06.8	So like feudalism and for many people,
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