
Susan Shooter
Susan Shooter is a writer, priest and allotment keeper. She lives in Cornwall with her husband and during school holidays has a house full of children and grandchildren.
- Opinion
‘What I learned about faith from Marguerite Porete - the first woman to write a Christian treatise in French.’
‘I’d grown up Christian, been through ordination training, was studying for a doctorate, yet I’d never heard of Marguerite, until a lecturer mentioned the ‘beguine’ mystics in passing. I hunted for stories of these gifted and prayerful women who weren’t cloistered like nuns,’ says Susan Shooter.