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Associate Professor of Constructive Theology and African American Religions at Claremont School of Theology

• Octavia Tried to Tell Us: Parable for Today’s Pandemic by Monica Coleman

  By Monica A Coleman on July 15, 2020 • ( 2 )

  In national quarantine and sheltering-in-place or is it “safer-at-home,” all I could think about was that we were living in a scene from the late Afrofuturist writer Octavia Butler’s book Parable of the Sower. So I texted my friend, Afrofuturist… Read More ›

• Robbed by Monica A. Coleman

  By Monica A Coleman on February 4, 2012 • ( 8 )

  “Life is robbery.” I re-read this Alfred North Whiteheadquotation to my students in the last weeks as we read through Adventures of Ideas. We were taking a welcome break from the philosophically demanding Process and Reality. I explained that this is one of… Read More ›

• The Barren Woman Bible By Monica A. Coleman

  By Monica A Coleman on December 23, 2011 • ( 8 )

  As I mourn the loss of my miscarried babies, it’s easy to see that the Bible’s stories of barren women were written by men. I know that men wrote the Bible. That’s no surprise to anyone who has had a… Read More ›

• Sacrament By Monica A. Coleman

  By Monica A Coleman on October 27, 2011 • ( 5 )

  The following is a guest post written by Monica A. Coleman, Ph.D., scholar and activist committed to connecting faith and social justice. An ordained elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, Coleman has earned degrees at Harvard University, Vanderbilt University and… Read More ›

• I’m Back and Writing About Loss By Monica A. Coleman

  By Monica A Coleman on September 21, 2011 • ( 6 )

  

  The following is a guest post written by Monica A. Coleman, Ph.D., scholar and activist committed to connecting faith and social justice. An ordained elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, Coleman has earned degrees at Harvard University, Vanderbilt University… Read More ›