FAYETTEVILLE, Ark., Sept. 15 -- The University of Arkansas issued the following news release:
She has been a mother, a bride, a teacher, a scold and, in the hands of the English poet and cleric John Donne, something considerably more scandalous.
For more than a millennium, writers imagined the Christian church as a woman. Then, gradually, Lady Church all but disappeared from cultural memory.
A U of Asymposium on Monday, Oct. 5, will bring her back into the conversation.
The symposium celebrates Lora Walsh's new book, Lady Church in the Christian Imagination: From Early Christianity to Early Modernity (Cambridge University Press, 2026) and will be held from 5:15-6:45 p.m. in GEAR 130.
"I've been working on this book for longer than I'd ...