Introduction

When people ask me how I became an author, I smile—because the answer is both ordinary and extraordinary. Like many journeys, mine began long before I knew I was on it.

I grew up with a hunger for questions. Not the kind that had tidy answers in a textbook or a sermon, but the kind that pressed against the edges of certainty: Who gets to speak for God? Why do some voices get silenced? Where did the wisdom of women go?

Over the years, life carried me through many roles—teacher, minister, mother, student. I found myself in classrooms and pulpits, in community projects and second-chance programs, always circling the same core truth: that the margins hold wisdom the center has forgotten.

When I pursued my Ph.D. in Metaphysical Theology, I thought I was chasing answers. Instead, I found a deeper calling: to name the distortions in our religious inheritance, to reclaim Sophia—the divine feminine wisdom—and to reimagine faith not as dogma, but as a living flame. Writing my dissertation, Allegory of the Cross: Sophia Rising From the Cave, was not just an academic exercise. It was my excavation, my way of pulling threads of light from centuries of shadows.

But I didn’t want those ideas to stay bound in ivory towers and footnotes. That’s why I began writing for you—for the seeker, the questioner, the dreamer. My nonfiction work, The Cave and the Cross, is my invitation to step outside the cave of religion and remember the light. My novel, Beyond the Well, lets me tell the story of Photine—the Samaritan woman who met Jesus at the well—through her own voice, with all the pain, resilience, and brilliance history tried to erase.

This blog will be a continuation of that work. Here, I’ll share stories, reflections, fragments of wisdom, and maybe even a few field notes from the margins. Some posts will be deeply spiritual. Some will be playful. All will be rooted in the same conviction: that there is more to remember, and that you carry a spark of it already.

So—welcome. Pull up a chair. Let’s begin this journey together.