by Monica A. Coleman | Jun 28, 2024 | Blog, The Beautiful Mind Blog
This year this month marks 30 years since I accepted a call into ministry. I did not grow up thinking that “minister” was a career option. When and where I was raised, if you were a boy who liked church, people would say that you might be a minister one...
by Monica A. Coleman | Mar 29, 2024 | Media
Honored to be quoted talking about Black religiosity in a recent Essence magazine article. Here’s a small excerpt: Today, it is not uncommon for Black women to set up ancestral altars, practice yoga, sit in mindfulness meditation, get a Tarot card reading, and still...
by Monica A. Coleman | Jan 20, 2024 | Blog, The Beautiful Mind Blog
When Dr. Claudine Gay resigned from the presidency of Harvard University, my phone lit up with phone call and texts. The callers and texters included Black women academics, Black professional women, Black male academics, and the like. Reeling with emotion from...
by Monica A. Coleman | Jun 20, 2023 | Blog, Monica's Blog, The Beautiful Mind Blog
I have a friend who asks me every year about what I’m doing for Black History Month. And I always reply: “Nothing, I’m Black every day.” And I mean it. I don’t celebrate Black History Month, but I am happy to be a part of celebrations of Black history – when they...
by Monica A. Coleman | May 11, 2023 | Media
Hope Made Strong hosts this great podcast, The Care Ministry Podcast, and Laura Rowe and I had such a good conversation. We talked about my journey from being a “curious Christian” to being a religious leader, what led me to write Not Alone, and how...
by Monica A. Coleman | Jan 16, 2023 | Media
I so love this podcast conversation with Gabby Wilkinson on her podcast Dear God, I’m Sad. Gabby’s introduction to our conversation is just gold, and she asks me a couple questions that made me pause – and that doesn’t happen often. We had a...
by Monica A. Coleman | Oct 25, 2022 | Media
I had an insightful conversation with Sarah I. Fox on The Rough Edges podcast. It’s always a particular joy to speak with other people who live with bipolar depressions. We talked about Bipolar Faith and Sarah asked me some questions no one else has. Check it...
by Monica A. Coleman | Oct 20, 2022 | Blog, Monica's Blog, The Beautiful Mind Blog
How does it feel to be a problem? W. E. B. DuBois posed this question in the essay “Our Spiritual Strivings” in The Souls of Black Folk. DuBois was referring to the ways in which African Americans were understood by white American society in the early twentieth...
by Monica A. Coleman | May 15, 2022 | Media
I was bopping around the internet when I found this moving review of Bipolar Faith by Neph Lesperance on Critical Reads Podcast. Neph is a social worker and student of religion and she asks some insightful questions of the text – with a couple reflections that...
by Monica A. Coleman | Apr 18, 2022 | Media
I enjoyed chatting with Life Coach Myrna Young of the Transform Your Mind podcast. We chatted about my book Bipolar Faith. Lively conversations including some of the unique challenges that Black women experience with mental health.
