Biography:

Not God’s Type: An Atheist Academic Lays Down Her Arms by Holly Ordway (Read Excerpt – opens a PDF file) The true story of a convert from atheism whose path to Catholicism was laid on the foundation of poetry, literature and imagination.

Online:

“Act as If” by Elizabeth Foss

Sometimes, in the act of behaving as if we were loving, we actually do grow to be loving.

Embracing pain and suffering doesn’t mean being all serious and dour and sackcloth and ashes all the time. I think it might mean working especially hard to find the good in something or someone and genuinely seeking to celebrate it.