Welcome
The Daily Beast has interviewed me and Huffington Post has I've written two articles on Huffington Post (here and here) in support of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, an umbrella group of brave American nuns under fire from the Vatican. I also discussed this issue on the Burt Cohen Show. To discuss the Vatican's recent crackdown on American nuns, please visit and "like" my Facebook page and the Support Our Catholic Sisters Facebook page. Sign a petition in support of the LCWR. Support nunjustice.
Watch my clip from The Rosie Show
Kirkus Review named An Unquenchable Thirst to their Best Nonfiction of 2011
Slate.com: Book of the Week
A conversation with Adam Lee of Daylight Atheism
I'm so excited that An Unquenchable Thirst continues to connect with people of such diverse backgrounds:
A Catholic priest: An Unquenchable Thirst offers the Missionaries of Charity "an opportunity for introspection and to rectify errors." --CM Paul, quoting Sister M. Prema, superior general of the Missionaries of Charity
A Sufi Muslim: "Beautiful and thought-provoking." --Tamam Kahn
An Athiest: "I would class An Unquenchable Thirst with Ayaan Hirsi Ali's Infidel as one of the best biographies I've read." --Daylight Atheism blogger Adam Lee
A Hindu: An Unquenchable Thirst's courage "has motivated me to speak more openly than ever before." --Kumkum Pareek Malik
A former Catholic priest: "A must-read for anyone interested in spirituality, integrity and the struggle of the self-awakening heart." --D Gregory Smith
The Christian Science Monitor: "Opens the window on a horizon of spiritual questions." --Elizabeth A. Brown
An Episcopalian priest: "It is a rare book that grabs me straight out of the packet. This one did." --Andy Morgan
A Humanist Perspecitve: "Johnson represents an extreme case of the predicament that atheists, agnostics, and humanists face across the world: How does one maintain the good, important parts of formalized religion if one denies the existence of a higher being?" --Patrick W. Lauppe in The Harvard Crimson
A Jewish Woman: "Compulsively readable." --Debra Schultz
An Unquenchable Thirst
Following Mother Teresa in search of love, service, and an authentic life.
An Unquenchable Thirst is the story of my twenty years as a Missionary of Charity, a nun with Mother Teresa of Calcutta. People tell me that the book is more than a fascinating story about nuns; they say it’s a book about being human. That pleases me.
Mother Teresa always used to tell us: “God made us to love and to be loved.” An Unquenchable Thirst is the story of the many ways love surprised and challenged me, and of how I came to understand myself as a woman with body, mind, desires, and what some would call soul. I hope you’ll enjoy my stories, and that my book will spark lively, honest discussion. Click here for more details.
Meet Mary Johnson
Hear about her life with Mother Teresa & The Missionaries of Charity