Miriam Therese Winter


Sister Miriam Therese Winter is a Roman Catholic Medical Mission Sister, theologian, writer and songwriter. Her hymns include "Joy Is Like the Rain", "Knock Knock", and "Wellspring of Wisdom".

Education

Miriam Therese Winter earned her B.A. in music from Catholic University, her master's degree in religious education from McMaster Divinity College, and a Ph.D. in liturgical studies from Princeton Theological Seminary.
As a Medical Mission Sister, Winter has worked along the Thai-Cambodian border and in Ethiopia at refugee camps. Winter has also traveled to communities in Botswana, Ghana, Uganda and Kenya, and India to spread her music as well as performing in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
She currently teaches at Hartford Seminary as Professor of Liturgy, Worship, Spirituality and Feminist Studies. Here, Winter founded the Women's Leadership Institute and teaches courses using ecumenical and cross-cultural emphases in theory and in practice, and developing feminist and multifaith approaches that have culminated in a quantum perspective.

Honors and Awards

Winter also holds honorary doctorates from the University of Hartford, Mount Saint Vincent University and Albertus Magnus College.

Selected Discography

"Joy Is Like the Rain" was published by Vanguard Records in 1965, before Vatican II. The Song was released on September 30, 1966, as part of the Medical Mission Sisters' album "Joy is Like the Rain." The album contains 12 tracks. Sister Winter says that no matter where she travelled, the song arrived before her.
"Knock Knock" was similarly popular was released in 1968 and in published in 1982 ''in An Anthology of Scripture Songs''

Selected books