"Jewish Convert Journalist Was Helped Along by Chesterton"

Dawn Eden is interviewed in the National Catholic Register:

Dawn Eden grew up Jewish and learned to talk to St. Maximilian Kolbe.

A former popular-music historian and copy editor who wrote some pretty snazzy headlines at the New York Post, she is now deputy news editor at the New York Daily News.

Eden was received into the Church at the Easter vigil, after a years-long journey from the Jewish faith through Protestantism. Her first book, The Thrill of the Chaste: Finding Fulfillment While Keeping Your Clothes On, is due later this year from W Publishing Group/Thomas Nelson.

She recently spoke with Register senior writer Tim Drake....

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Thu. 07/20/06 08:55:05 PM
Categorized as Religious.

Excerpts from The Mind of the Maker

A book by Dorothy Sayers.

This week, Amanda Witt has been blogging about Dorothy Sayers. Back in 2002, from Sep. 23 through Dec. 9, I posted weekly an excerpt from each of the book's eleven chapters, except Chapter VI, and from the preface and the postcript.

• "The Public Do Not Care Whether They Are Being Told Truth Or Not"
• "The Christian Creeds Are Statements of Fact"
• "Man Measures Everything by His Own Experience"
• "At Every Point Related to Life"
• "The Writer’s Necessity"
• "Poetic Justice"
• "A Perfect Unity of Will and Idea"
• "A Book as Thought, as Written, as Read"
• "The Children of Grace and the Children of Legality"
• "Scalene Trinities"
• "The Rationality of the Trinitarian Creed"
• "The End of the Work"

P.S. Thanks, Amanda.

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Thu. 07/20/06 08:30:53 PM
Categorized as Literary & Religious.

Famous Poets and Poems

Lege.

We are glad to see you here! This site is dedicated to poetry and to the people who make poetry possible: poets and their readers.

FamousPoetsandPoems.com is a free poetry site. We have a large collection of 20 000 poems from over 550 poets.

FamousPoetsandPoems.com is web site created by Helen Jaworski, Monica Vesela and Diana Collins — all are poetry fans.

The authors listed on this site include some of the greatest poets of all time. Their names have a very special place in the history of the world — and within our hearts. They have taught us Beauty. They have taught us Truth. And their lessons, for each generation, begin a new.

P.S. Thanks.

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Thu. 07/20/06 08:05:49 PM
Categorized as Literary & WorldWideWeb Stuff.

"Feelings, Countertransference & Reality"

By Pat Santy @ Dr. Sanity:

The purpose of this post is to explore how valuable feelings are in perceiving the world; particularly when an individual does not let feelings alone dictate his or her behavior, but instead uses emotion, tempered by reason or reason, tempered by emotion as the basis of action.

Of course, you knew that.

But somehow, our culture, once founded on and dedicated to rational thought is slowly evolving into a cult that worships emotion and whim at the expense of reason.

Some years ago I used to moonlight and perform psychiatric evaluations for the prosecutors and public defenders in the county where I lived. Personality disorders have always been an interest of mine, and you can find many examples in the jails and prisons....

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Thu. 07/20/06 07:58:49 PM
Categorized as More Than Blogworthy.

"A Change of Heart"

By Gerard Van der Leun @ American Digest:

There's a lot of it being bandied about these days. Change, that is. Mostly in the realm of the Politics of life. Despite all the hand-wringing and introspection that goes on in this area, I've come to believe that the Politics of life are easy. It's the Poetics that are tough.

Changing your politics by either softening or hardening or completely reversing your positions on issues is such a simple intellectual feat that almost anyone, even politicians and lawyers, can manage it. At bottom, it is mostly a matter of viewing or "re"-viewing your internal map of how the world should be, and taking up those positions or opinions or policies that you believe will lead the world from "what it is" to "what the world should be."

Thoughtful and engaged citizens of the nation or of the world continually assemble and reassemble their political beliefs to resemble their visions of the world and its continual becoming. All of which implies, to a greater or lesser extent, some individual control over the creation of policies which determine — to some degree — political outcomes.

Politics is the great game of our globe. It is now and always has been the only blood sport played well by both warriors and wimps. This is as it should be since the amount of blood that has to be spilled to obtain any of many possible outcomes hangs in the balance. In all this, change may be for the better or the worse, depending on where you stand, but change will have its time and send its butcher's bill. And the bill will always be more than you imagined you would have to pay. In blood and in treasure, the stakes are fates.

All of that is hard and difficult and, more often than not, splits parties, factions, families and friends right down to the living bone. It is played in real time and with live ammunition. But none of it is mysterious. In the end it involves only the process of politics and, while the rules may be at times obscure, they can still be descried and codified.

Not so the changes of the darkest realm of our lives; that realm we know only dimly but tell ourselves, in our error, that we know well. This is the realm of the human heart; a place where change comes more slowly than wisdom accrues, and rolls below our conscious minds like a deep, underground river into which we have drilled, through the bedrock of our lives, the wells of love and the wells of hate....

(Thanks, Francis.)

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Thu. 07/20/06 07:43:18 PM
Categorized as More Than Blogworthy.

Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church

Lege.

(Thanks, Bill.)

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Thu. 07/20/06 07:36:02 PM
Categorized as Religious & WorldWideWeb Stuff.