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Prayer amid Pandemic: "All Shall Be Well," She Wrote. But There's More to the Story.

Published: May 22, 2020, 8:37 p.m.

"All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well.\u201d That these 17 words were uttered by a woman named Julian of Norwich may be the only thing you know about this 14th-century English saint. Historians don\u2019t necessarily know that much more. We\u2019re not even sure her real name. So why do we remember her?\nIn this episode of Prayer amid Pandemic, Amy Laura Hall, the author of\xa0Laughing at the Devil: Seeing the World with Julian of Norwich\xa0and a Christian ethics professor at Duke Divinity School, tell us why we know so little about Julian\u2019s identity but why we still read her writings on the vision she received while sick today.\nGideon Para-Mallam, the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students regional secretary for English and Portuguese-speaking Africa, offers this week\u2019s prayer.\nRead\xa0Christianity Today\u2019s latest coronavirus coverage\nWhat is Prayer amid Pandemic?\xa0Read more\nRate Prayer amid Pandemic on\xa0Apple Podcasts\nFollow the podcast on\xa0Twitter\nFollow the host on Twitter:\xa0Morgan Lee\nMusic by\xa0Urban Nerd Beats, Prod. Riddiman, and Oliver D\xfavel\nPrayer amid Pandemic is produced by\xa0Morgan Lee,\xa0Mike Cosper, and\xa0Erik Petrik\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices