by Monica A. Coleman | Jun 6, 2011 | Media
According to Glenn Beck, President Obama is a “liberation theologist.” What exactly is liberation theology? Strictly defined it’s a movement in Christian theology which interprets the teachings of Jesus Christ in terms of liberation from poverty and unjust economic,...
by Monica A. Coleman | Jun 6, 2011 | Media
The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees the right to freedom of religion (or non-religion). It also protects practitioners of “double belonging,” people who follow two religions simultaneously. Americans are used to being able to pick and chose from...
by Monica A. Coleman | Jun 1, 2011 | Blog, Monica's Blog, The Beautiful Mind Blog
Patheos.com asked several theo-bloggers what sex has to do with it. Here’s my response We are called to connect and to create from the deepest parts of who we are it’s our imago dei our missio dei of the many ways we connect and create sex is one. it matters how we...
by Monica A. Coleman | May 17, 2011 | Blog, Monica's Blog, The Beautiful Mind Blog
I didn’t plan to be a nomad. Yet in the last decade, a combination of school, work and family saw me in a new city—across the country from the previous city—every two years. While I had moving down to a science (checklists, procedures, the three day un-pack), I was...
by Monica A. Coleman | Apr 25, 2011 | Monica's Blog, The Beautiful Mind Blog
The headline in the electronic newsletter came was written in large font: “She’s one of us.” My favorite magazine that offers hope and harmony to people living with bipolar depressions, bphope, called attention to the recent disclosure that actress Catherine...
by Monica A. Coleman | Apr 12, 2011 | Monica's Blog, The Beautiful Mind Blog
My favorite slogan of the environmental movement is the edict that we should: “live simply so others can simply live.” It’s a basic truism that most of us who are living in the world’s wealthiest nations find incredibly difficult to enact. The everyday components of...
by Monica A. Coleman | Apr 5, 2011 | Monica's Blog, The Beautiful Mind Blog
While many individuals around the world play harmless pranks and jokes on their friends and colleagues, April first marks a different kind of celebration for me. April first marks the beginning of Sexual Assault Awareness Month. April first is also the anniversary of...
by Monica A. Coleman | Feb 16, 2011 | Monica's Blog, The Beautiful Mind Blog
This is part three of three parts. See part one “cry it out” and part two “falling” Human beings have long admired and envied a bird’s ability to soar through the skies. I imagine that this initiated the design of the kite, and reaches its pinnacle in space...
by Monica A. Coleman | Feb 9, 2011 | Monica's Blog, The Beautiful Mind Blog
This is part two of three parts. See last week’s part one, “cry it out” In 2001, the rock band, Creed, released their album Weathered that featured a song that climbed into the top ten of the Billboard music charts. “One Last Breath” has stayed with me in the...
by Monica A. Coleman | Jan 31, 2011 | Monica's Blog, The Beautiful Mind Blog
I experience one of life’s greatest pleasures when a child hugs me. Warm fuzzies head to toe in less than two seconds. When I was a child, hugging adults usually conveyed a familial or extended family relationship, and joy for the adult’s presence. And like many other...
