Thanks to Patty who wrote: I just need to chime in, being a “Jane Eyre” scholar and a big fan of Chattering Mind. Bertha Rochester, as she is named in Bronte’s novel, is indeed the “madwoman in the attic,” but as contemporary Jane Eyre scholars like myself have noted, she is silenced, suppressed, and remains…

Editors at Beliefnet.com are reorganizing Beliefnet’s homepage, and in the process, they have come to me with a question I have not been able to answer. For the purposes of helping folks navigate the site, they need to give “New Age” readers a name, but they don’t really want to use the term New Age.…

Now that we’ve all calmed down and heard Vice President Cheney admit that the day he peppered his friend with birdshot was one of the worst of his life, I have a book to recommend. It’s called “The Blessing,” and it was written several years ago by Gregory Orr, a professor of English at the…

“Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by a difference of sentiments in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing, and ought most to be deprecated. I was in hopes that the enlightened and liberal policy, which has marked the present age, would at least have reconciled…

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