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A nationally and internationally recognized leader in women and childhood studies and Christian theology, Bonnie Miller-McLemore is author, co-author, and editor of eighteen books as well as over a hundred chapters and journal articles.
She earned her PhD at the University of Chicago and is the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Chair and Professor of Religion, Psychology, and Culture, Emerita at Vanderbilt University. She is a Henry Luce III Fellow in Theology and has received numerous awards and grants for her writing. Her publications span both academic and wider audiences.
Her most recent book, Follow Your Bliss and Other Lies about Calling, is a wonderful antidote to all the blithe and even heedless ways people throw around the term "calling" in popular and religious circles.
Her writing is informed not just by reading and research but also by close listening to other people and what goes on in people's lives. Teaching and advising afforded an especially wonderful opportunity to hear people's struggles over their callings.
By far the most formative life experience has been aspiring to live in a mutual relationship with her husband Mark and raising three sons who now have growing families of their own.