[The Stage is on Fire] is a page-turner in which, much like life, there are no easy answers and yet each step of the journey yields insight and hope. This work of heart must not be missed!
Melanie Faith
Creative Writing Teacher, Essayist & Poet.
Katie Steedly’s first-person piece [The Unspeakable Gift] is a riveting retelling of her participation in a National Institutes of Health study that aided her quest to come to grips with her life of living with a rare genetic disorder. Her writing is superb.
The Society of Professional Journalists
In recognition of receiving the Dateline Award for the Washingtonian Magazine essay, The Unspeakable Gift.
I thank you … It is the authenticity of your “class notes”; and it is the delicacy and skill with which you present the nuances of classroom life and the actuality of your students’ and fellow teachers’ lives.
Maxine Greene
Philosopher and Education Scholar
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Category: Podcasts
Podcasts
Everything Happens: Learning to Hold On, Learning to Let Go with Richard Rohr
Life is painful. Period. But are there some aspects of our faith or our posture toward the world that can change how we experience it?Father Richard Rohr is everyone’s favorite preacher of love. Love for each other. Love from God.Everything Happens...
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Doing Philosophy, Podcasts
We Can Do Hard Things with Glennon Doyle: What to Do with Our Short, Precious Life with Kate Bowler
Hello, loves. Welcome back to We Can Do Hard Things. We’re going to jump right in. I’m so looking forward to this episode, sister Amanda and I have been talking about it all weekend. And that is because we have our dear friend who we’ve never m...
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Doing Philosophy, Podcasts
Why Your Creativity Matters
"You have this beautiful line from the poet Jack Gilbert that I just I think about about once a week. And it is. “Do you have the courage? Do you have the courage to bring forth this work? The treasures that are hidden inside you are hoping you wil...
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Doing Philosophy, Podcasts
Kate Bowler and Wajahat Ali: The Future of Hope
I think about being an incurable optimist as being a really, fundamentally, a story about hope. And it’s hope for me, it’s hope for you, that hope is a story about all of us that God puts in the future, ever before us and always with us and alway...
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From Louisville. Live in Atlanta. Curious by nature. Researcher by education. Writer by practice. Grateful heart by desire.
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The Stage Is On Fire, a memoir about hope and change, reasons for voyaging, and dreams burning down can be purchased on Amazon.
