About

About Beth: Beth is a full time minion for the Catholic Church and an amateur blogger. She has a BA in Sociology and English from the College of William and Mary in Virginia, an MA in Theology from the Franciscan University of Steubenville, and a wedding band from a very brave man.

About the Name: The title is of course a philosophical allusion to a work I have not read, but the phrase is too great to resist. And with it I mean to express our experience of being human -- creatures consisting of the union of body and soul -- in a broken world where we experience a division between the two that did not exist in God's original plan. So it is tongue-in-cheek when referring to the coining of the term and when calling to mind the philosopher who inspired the tongue-in-cheek term.

About This Blog: I am writing about the experience of living in bodies that aren't perfect, in a world that isn't perfect.  I think of this blog as a Theology of the Body blog in the loosest (or perhaps the strictest) sense -- understanding any part of life through the lens of Catholicism is a theology of the body, because we don't experience life any other way.  More specifically, I tend toward gender, religion, and politics, because that's what interests me most.

A Brief History: I started writing online when I graduated college and moved away to join a volunteer community.  I wanted to be able to share adventures with my friends at home.  I started with the name "To Life Would Be an Awfully Big Adventure" after Peter Pan.  As I changed and the blog changed, it started to become more what it is today.  At last, I made the change official with a new name and a new look.