by Monica A. Coleman | Sep 12, 2011 | Monica's Blog, The Beautiful Mind Blog
A lot of religions consider blood to be an appropriate sacrifice to God or gods. Kill the fatted lamb, say scriptures in the Hebrew Bible. Lay the ram on the altar – instead of your son, God tells Abraham. Place the blood upon your doorposts, and the angel of death...
by Monica A. Coleman | Sep 8, 2011 | Blog, Monica's Blog, The Beautiful Mind Blog
I long became comfortable with bleeding. The Red Tent, Honoring Menstruation and Sacred Woman guided me into a healthy relationship with my womanhood, my womb and the cycles of the moon. I didn’t know what to do when I stopped bleeding. It felt like weeks before I got...
by Monica A. Coleman | Sep 6, 2011 | Blog, Monica's Blog, The Beautiful Mind Blog
I grew up in the 1980s before AIDS was called HIV. My closest friends and I were trained to be deathly afraid of unprotected sex. At worst, you would get AIDS and die. And best, you got pregnant and there went your career dreams. Or so we believed as we sat around the...
by Monica A. Coleman | Aug 31, 2011 | Monica's Blog, The Beautiful Mind Blog, Uncategorized
If you’ve been following my blog, you’ve noticed that I’ve been really quiet lately. Like all summer lately. What’s up with that? Well, part of the challenge of writing about depression is that it’s hard to write when depressed, and, well, depression happens. But I’m...
by Monica A. Coleman | Aug 19, 2011 | Blog, Monica's Blog, The Beautiful Mind Blog
I’m an ordained minister, but I’m not good at all that the life of ministry requires. I’m particularly embarrassed at how bad I am with hospital visitations. Early in my ministry career, I delighted when I put the clergy pass on my car’s dashboard and parked in the...
