Monica's Blog
Stay up to date with our most recent news and updatesI’m Black Everyday or Why I don’t Celebrate Juneteenth
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...
Our Souls Desire more
How does it feel to be a problem? W. E. B. DuBois posed this question in the essay “Our Spiritual Strivings” in The Souls...
BLM + Mental Health + Memoir
July is BIPOC Mental Health Awareness Month. In 2008, mental health communities began recognizing July as Bebe Moore...
5 Favorite Religion Books I Teach
Choosing favorite books in one’s field is like asking who your favorite friends are. Good books change my perspective and –...
Saving Ourselves: Shaping Change Workshop
No one is coming to save us! We have to save ourselves. Tananarive Due and I are talking about strategies for surviving...
Octavia Tried to Tell Us: Parable for Today’s Pandemic
In national quarantine and sheltering-in-place or is it "safer-at-home," all I could think about was that we were living in...
I’ve Been Quiet
I didn’t know I had a lisp. Not until I was 15 and a boy I liked teased me about it. Once he pointed it out, I stopped...
Cup of Tea Spiritual Practice
Spiritual Practices don't have to be as "holy" as we sometimes think. Here I talk about a great spiritual practice for...
Remember This Day
Remember this day. I told myself to remember this day. This was the day when it all ended. This was the day I was raped. It...