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Associate Professor of Constructive Theology and African American Religions at Claremont School of Theology
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Octavia Tried to Tell Us: Parable for Today’s Pandemic by Monica Coleman
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 ›
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Robbed by Monica A. Coleman
“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 ›
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Sacrament By Monica A. Coleman
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 ›
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I’m Back and Writing About Loss By Monica A. Coleman
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 ›