This is a blog shared by two friends.
Caitlin and Rebecca first became friends while doing theatre in college. They spent their years at Biola discussing great books, directing (usually) good plays, and doing the stuff of daily life together. They edited each others’ papers, advised each others’ love lives, and washed each others’ socks. They still do not see eye-to-eye on the subject of coffee.
Caitlin is woman who loves Truth and Beauty. God is the pinnacle of this love, and all her other interests and passions flow down accordingly. She loves words that are true, art that is beautiful, and ideas that are both. She’s married to a delightful and driven man and is learning to be a mom to a bright-eyed six year old stepson while teaching art and getting her masters in business administration. Her ideas are broad and wide and her enthusiasm inspires action. She’s also hilarious (says Rebecca).
Rebecca is a paradox at heart. She will sit and listen with devoted empathy, respond with insightful common sense, then get up to run a marathon or tattoo a line from East Coker onto her body. She is always dependable and utterly unpredictable. What she thinks, she feels, she acts upon. She presently teaches (or, at least encourages) junior high students to read, write, and consider the Wide World.
In our many years of friendship, our conversations have challenged, inspired, humbled, and changed us. We are committed to maintaining this blog is so that you too can join our conversations.
R. Card and C.S. Doemner
From our original post: We decided upon the title “East of Mina” first as a literary allusion to T. S. Eliot’s “East Coker” and Bram Stoker’s Dracula, but also to signify what we see as our place in the realm of ideas and culture. Wilhelmina is Stoker’s heroine who is most able to save London; she is one of the most attractive female characters we’ve found in our readings. But we are neither as good (nor as ‘Western’) as Mina. Our culture is in a state of flux. We are shifting from a society based on location and ethnicity to one open to every part of the globe. We do not fight against new ideas, but against bad ones. Our foundation is on Christ and His Church, and trusting that He is the immutable Rock and He has promised to secure us to Himself, we spread our arms in welcome to all that is good, true, and beautiful in His Creation.
