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May 23, 2020
Global Mental Health Summit
So Deepak Chopra called. Well not exactly. But I am deeply honored to be included in the Never Alone Summit: a 3 Day Mental Health Summit sponsored by a joint venture of The John W. Brick Mental Health Foundation and the NeverAlone suicide prevention initiative at the Chopra Foundation. Along with several amazing mental health advocates, I shared some of my story to remind people wrestling with mental health challenges that they – we – are not alone. Check it out here:
They also compiled a...
May 21, 2020
Womanist Self-Care and Mental Health as Political Acts
Dr. Mitzi Smith is creating lively conversations on womanist approaches to religion. I was honored to be one of the speakers on the topic: Womanist Self-Care and Mental Health as Political Acts in a Pandemic. You can catch the recording here.
May 20, 2020
The Blog
by Monica A. Coleman | May 20, 2020 | Uncategorized
Los Angeles Review of Books lauds Bipolar Faith
by Monica A. Coleman | Mar 23, 2017 | Media, Monica's Blog, The Beautiful Mind Blog
Janice Rhoshalle Littlejohn truly floored me with this review of Bipolar Faith in the Los Angeles Review of Books NOT SINCE MAYA ANGELOU’S I Know Why the Caged Bird Sin...
May 3, 2020
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 a scene from the late Afrofuturist writer Octavia Butler’s book Parable of the Sower. So I texted my friend, Afrofuturist writer Tananarive Due and said: hey let’s do a webinar on this. And this turned into weekly – then monthly – free webinars on the wisdom we can glean from Octavia Butler as we live through these political days.
You can catch the videos from previous web...
March 8, 2020
17 African American Women Theologians
Honored to have made The Global Church Project’s list of 17 African American Women Theologians You Should Know About. Along with my mentors, colleagues and friends.
17 African American Women Theologians You Should Know About
By Emmanuella Carter
I have studied at Christian schools my entire life. After graduating from high school, I went on to pursue a B.A. in Theology at a well-known evangelical institution. In all those years, I never had an African American woman as a professor of Bible or th...
March 4, 2020
Choosing to live at Pierce College
As a young adult, Monica Coleman drew an imaginary line in the sand. To cope with her mental illness, she viewed checking into a mental hospital as the threshold she would never cross. But, in the midst of a mental health crisis, Coleman finally took action. It was the best decision she ever made.
“I felt like the only thing between me and not being alive was this line, and I chose life,” Coleman said.
In one of her most recent books, “Bipolar Faith,” Coelman talks about her struggles with depre...
Choosing to live at Pearce College
As a young adult, Monica Coleman drew an imaginary line in the sand. To cope with her mental illness, she viewed checking into a mental hospital as the threshold she would never cross. But, in the midst of a mental health crisis, Coleman finally took action. It was the best decision she ever made.
“I felt like the only thing between me and not being alive was this line, and I chose life,” Coleman said.
In one of her most recent books, “Bipolar Faith,” Coelman talks about her struggles with depre...
February 17, 2020
Belmont University Faith and Culture Symposium
The College of Theology and Christian Ministry is pleased to announce the 7th Annual Faith and Culture Symposium on February 3-7, 2020. The goal of the Symposium is to create a space for conversation around key issues at the intersection of faith and culture. The theme of this year’s Symposium foregrounds a concern that affects the campus community at large—Mental Health and Faith: Human Wholeness, Mind, Body and Soul. All of the events address this topic from a variety of academic, social, theo...
August 26, 2019
Bipolar Faith Reviewed on Syndicate – John Swinton
WHAT ABOUT MEDICATION?
Every time I talk about the intersection of mental health and faith, someone in the audience asks me about medication and depression and faith and science and diagnosis and what I think about it all.
In this final review of BIPOLAR FAITH the erudite pastoral theologian John Swinton talks about medical imperialism (how much do I love this term?) and the limitations of diagnosis and the complexity of mental health. And, after a little fangirling, I respond by telling stories...
August 19, 2019
Bipolar Faith Reviewed on Syndicate – Mel Webb
This week Mel Webb compares my book BIPOLAR FAITH to Augustine’s Confessions and W.E.B. DuBois’ discussion of “Sorrow Songs.” Webb gets me to talk more about rape and how one rebuilds scripture and faith amid suffering. Check out Syndicate Network‘s ongoing review of BIPOLAR FAITH and my responses to the reviews
Reply to Monica Coleman’s Bipolar Faith
I walked at a natural pace, ignoring the water soaking into my suede boots. The rain dripped onto my hair, my eyelashes, my nose and chin. The rai...
