What's being said about the book: Making a Way out of No Way

“Monica Coleman’s elegant prose makes Making a Way out of No Way a clear and accessible introduction to postmodern womanist theology. This book is a wonderful synthesis of the best of the past with attention to the foibles of our twenty-first-century present and realistic hope for creative future possibilities.”

Karen Baker-Fletcher,  Ph.D. Professor of Systematic Theology at Perkins School of Theology,  Southern Methodist University 

Writings


Community and Justice

Speak Out
African American Pulpit 8.3 (Summer 2005): 73-77.

Showing Rape Victims that God Cares
Greensboro News and Record March 12, 2005. B6

Martin Luther King: An American Icon
Ecumenical Trends : Graymoor Ecumenical and Interreligious Institute . 34.1 (January 2005) 11-12.

Fighting Back
Upscale April 2004: 112

Going Inside
horizonMag.com (Oct 2000).

Blessed Are the Poor in Spirit
horizonMag.com (Jan 2000).

No Black Eyes
horizonMag.com (Feb 1999): 3

Sprouting Wings
ESSENCE Magazine 29.1 (May 1998): 68

The Wright Kind of Commitment
Supporting UNCF is Elementary for Chicago Public Schools
A Mind Is . . .: A Publication of the United Negro College Fund 7: 1 (Spring 2000) 27, 36.

Chuck Smith: Walking the Walk
Helen Love: Generous Support with a Dose of Modesty
A Mind Is . . .: A Publication of the United Negro College Fund 6: 1 (Spring 1999) 34-35.

Restaurant Review
EarthSave Nashville 2:4 (Nov/Dec 1998): 3

A ‘Colored' Heritage
horizonMag.com (Nov 1998): 4

The Full South African Experience
Roots and Culture 2.1 (Fall 1993): 4, 16-17.


Race, Gender and/or Religion

Keeping Our Own Vineyards or Why Black Christians Should Celebrate Kwanzaa
African American Pulpit . 6.1 (Winter 2002) 39-41.

Kwanzaa Prayers
Say Amen: African American Family Book of Prayer . Ed. Chestina Mitchell Archibald. New York: Dutton, 1997. 339-343.

Advent
Rhapsody in Black: Creative Condensation for Literary and Visual Artists 2: 2 (Spring 1999).

Dinah's Story: The Story of an Abused Woman
The Women of Color Study Bible . Ed. Marjorie H. Lawson. Atlanta: Nia Publishing, 2000. 22-10 – 22-11.

Disciples we don't know are most important
Greensboro News and Record . March 27, 2005. A4.

An Invitation to the Journey
Horizons:Journal of the Expanding Horizons Program , Fund for Theological Education. 4:3 (Summer 2001) 4.

Response to ‘Growing Pentecostalism'
The Christian Recorder : The Official Organ of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, 17 June 1996: 11.

Getting Our Stuff Back
The Just Sisters Communiqué 3:1 (Spring 1999) 11-13.

Gay Welch puts faith into practice as VU Chaplain
Women's VU: Publication of the Margaret Cuninggim Women's Center at Vanderbilt University. 19:4 (December 1996): 3

Academic Articles

From Models of God to a Model of Gods: How Whiteheadian Metaphysics Facilitates Western Language Discussion of Divine Multiplicity  (corrected first page)
Philosophia  35.3-4 (Fall 2007) 329-340.

Book Review
Dwight N. Hopkins - Being Human: Race Religion and Culture
Journal of the American Academy of Religion 74.3 (Sept 2006): 759-762

Must I Be Womanist? with Roundtable Responses
Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 22.1 (Spring 2006): 85-96.

An Exchange of Gifts: Process and Womanist Theologies
Handbook on Process Theology . Ed. Donna Bowman. (Chalice 2006) 160-176.

Book Review
Theodore Walker, Jr. - Mothership Connections: A Black Atlantic Synthesis of Neoclassical Metaphysics and Black Theology
Journal of Religion 86.1 (Jan 2006): 129-130.

“The Work of Your Own Hands”: Doing Black Women's Hair as Religious Language in Gloria Naylor's Mama Day
Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal . 85.1-2 (Spring/Summer 2003) 121-139.

The World At Its Best: A Process Construction of a Wesleyan Understanding of Entire Sanctification
Wesleyan Theological Journal . 37.2 (Fall 2002) 130-152.

Clergy Sexual Misconduct: an Open Letter to my Brothers and Sisters in Ministry"
The AME Review 114: 372 (Oct-Dec 1998) 20-31

Relevant Education: Black Studies as a Model for the Academy
Vision: Harvard Students Look Ahead, Volume III . Ed. David Kotchen. Cambridge, MA: The Dipylon Press, 1995. 89-97.

Where the Power of a Woman Lies
Harvard College Forum: The Academic Review . (Spring 1993): 1-7. , Volume III