The Miscarriage Chronicles: Motherhood With Depression
Motherhood I wanted to be pregnant if only for the possibility of helpful hormones. “Pregnancy is great for some women with depression,” my psychiatrist says. “The hormones can help.” I think of my...
View ArticleThe Miscarriage Chronicles: The Barren Woman Bible
I know that men wrote the Bible. That’s no surprise to anyone who has had a brush with feminism or biblical scholarship. But there are times when one is more aware of this than at other times. As I...
View ArticleWill the Churches Look After the Sick?
I now wonder what might have happened if I had ever heard a minister preach about mental health. What would I have thought if we had prayed for people living with depressions, schizophrenias, or...
View ArticleMonica A. Coleman talks about religious pluralism and Jesus with Homebrewed...
Monica A. Coleman talks about religious pluralism and Jesus with Homebrewed Christianity.
View ArticleThe Miscarriage Chronicles: Robbed
6 Week Ultrasound “Life is robbery.” I re-read this Alfred North Whitehead quotation to my students in the last weeks as we read through Adventures of Ideas. We were taking a welcome break from the...
View ArticleLife of the Mind
Three newly tenured faculty in good spirits. Congratulations also to Duane Bidwell and Grace Yia-Hei Kao, my colleagues at CST. On December 1, 2011 the full professors of Claremont School of Theology...
View ArticleProtected: Friendship Circle – Issue 3
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View ArticleOhio Lectures on Religious Pluralism
Monica A. Coleman gives 2012 Williams Institute Lectures at Methodist Theological School of Ohio on “Interreligious Outsiders” February 28-29. Two lectures: one on multiple religious belonging, and...
View Article“Creative transformation” in 2 minutes!
Hear me riff about the theological concept of “creative transformation.” In just 2 minutes! That’s right – you can get theology in less than the time it takes to get through a commercial break....
View ArticleThinking about life after death
Catch my 5 minute video with musings on life after death. Is it possible? How does it work? What does a process theologians have to say about spirits, ancestors, heaven and resurrection? Curious?...
View ArticleThe Miscarriage Chronicles: Activism Revisited
Strike Picket Line I grew up in a state of unionized workers. My mother was in a teachers’ union. My father worked for one of the “Big Three” automakers and UAW is an acronym every Michigander knows....
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