Monica A. Coleman is Associate Professor of Constructive Theology and African American Religions and Director of Process and Faith, and Co-Director of the Center for Process Studies at Claremont School of Theology in southern California, and an ordained minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Coleman’s writings focus on the role of faith in addressing critical social issues. In Not Alone: Reflections on Faith and Depression, Coleman offers a 40-day devotional wrestling with depression in a spiritual context. Coleman wrote about church responses to sexual violence in The Dinah Project: a Handbook for Congregational Response to Sexual Violence. In Making a Way Out of No Way: a Womanist Theology, Coleman discusses inter-religious responses to the joys and pains of black women’s lives. Her latest book, Bipolar Faith: a Black Woman’s Journey of Depression and Faith, released in July 2016.
