by Monica A. Coleman | Feb 3, 2017 | Media
So honored to be in conversation with Janice Rhoshalle Littlejohn with Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB) about #BipolarFaith. We had a lively conversation on a lot of the things that didn’t make it into the book and why there’s so much music in the book....
by Monica A. Coleman | Jan 19, 2017 | Media
Honored that BIPOLAR FAITH has received a 2017 Silver Illumination Book Award in the Biography/ Memoir category for the year’s best new titles written and published with a Christian worldview. The awards are designed to honor and bring increased recognition to the...
by Monica A. Coleman | Oct 22, 2016 | Media
“History and culture and race and family and genetics and trauma and fear all factor into what cause mental health challenges. Class, education and privilege may make a difference with accessing healthcare, but they don’t protect one from the angst of these...
by Monica A. Coleman | Oct 16, 2016 | Media
Jennifer Frayer-Griggs wrote a great feature in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Bipolar Faith is graceful and heartbreaking “You can die of grief.” This is the first sentence of the Rev. Monica A. Coleman’s memoir, “Bipolar Faith: A Black Woman’s Journey With Depression...
by Monica A. Coleman | Oct 11, 2016 | Media
“Too blessed to be stressed” is one of the phrases that I think the church should erase from its vocabulary “What I like is that in the stories of Jesus healing people, there are other people around. These aren’t private sessions; it’s...
by Monica A. Coleman | Sep 29, 2016 | Blog, Monica's Blog, The Beautiful Mind Blog
September is Suicide Prevention Awareness Month, and every September I hear that suicide is the unforgivable sin. As a minister and theologian, I understand the rationale. It goes something like this: Sin is doing something that offends God. It is the pride of trying...
by Monica A. Coleman | Aug 23, 2016 | Media
I had a great interview with Faith and Leadership, a learning resource for Christian leaders and their institutions from Leadership Education at Duke University Divinity School Throughout her life — through high school, college, seminary and graduate school...
by Monica A. Coleman | Jul 19, 2016 | Media
Great Interview with Patheos when BIPOLAR FAITH first came out. “I would like churches to talk about mental health the same ways we talk about every other health challenge. I would like us to combine prayer with other medical and social services that...
by Monica A. Coleman | Jun 2, 2016 | Media
I talk with Tripp Fuller of Homebrewed Christianity on 5 reasons to go process theology. Well, five big tenets of process theology. Catch our conversation here.
by Monica A. Coleman | Feb 4, 2016 | Media
In honor of Black History Month, Patheos invited a half a dozen black thought-leaders and activists — today’s black history makers — to share their responses to six questions about their work, their inspiration, and the racial justice movement. Here, Claremont...
