In 2020, I was scheduled to speak in western Michigan at the Institute for Theology and Disability. I love thinking about disability theology. I contribute my thoughts about mental health, but I also get to learn so much about things I’m not normally thinking about – things that push me to be even more inclusive…
“Have your people call my people” I feel like I used to hear that all the time in commercials and movies. And I thought to myself: I want to be able to say that. I want to be such a celebrity or big wig that I have “people.” And I interact with other big wig-ish…
There are many New Year traditions in which I take part. I do make resolutions – well, mine are more like intentions and plans. Leave me alone too long and I’ll break them down into quarterly goals and objectives and action steps. But I try not to over-think them. For many years, I was at…
There was a season in my life where I moved cross country every 2-4 years. I was making moves for education and career, and I became a packing and moving maven in the process. I had a system with my boxes and labelling and finding movers and laying out my apartment floor plan on graph…
I had two experiences in 2024 that serve as guideposts for me this year. In July, I took my preteen and their bestie to Hershey Park Amusement Park. I drove 2 hours each ways and spent 8 hours at the park. We got full of the junkiest vegan food out there and stood in line…
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 day. If you were a…
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 profound sadness to explosive anger, we had been watching a tried-and-true hallmark of American racial…
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 occur in February…
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 century. This quote came to mind last week…
July is BIPOC Mental Health Awareness Month. In 2008, mental health communities began recognizing July as Bebe Moore Campbell Minority Mental Health Awareness Month. Campbell was an African American novelist and a fierce advocate for mental health awareness and treatment. She wrote the wonderful children’s book Sometimes Mommy Gets Angry and the novel 72 Hour…
Dr. Monica A. Coleman is an award-winning scholar, writer, and minister dedicated to the intersections of faith, social justice, and transformation. Through speaking, consulting, and writing, she empowers individuals and organizations to navigate change with purpose and integrity.
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