About
Bonnie Miller-McLemore is the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Chair and Professor of Religion, Psychology, and Culture, Emerita at Vanderbilt University. A nationally and internationally recognized leader in women and childhood studies and Christian theology, she is author, co-author, and editor of eighteen books as well as over a hundred chapters and journal articles. Her writing spans academic and wider audiences (e.g. The Companion to Practical Theology, Wiley-Blackwell, 2012 and In the Midst of Chaos: Care of Children as a Spiritual Practice, Jossey-Bass, 2006). She earned her PhD at the University of Chicago in 1986. She is a Henry Luce III Fellow in Theology and has received numerous awards and grants for her research and writing.
Featured Work
Follow Your Bliss and Other Lies about Calling
Follow Your Bliss and Other Lies about Calling (Oxford University Press 2024) is a long-needed corrective and caution to the often blithe and even heedless ways people throw around the term "calling" in popular and religious circles. It addresses six challenges people encounter from early adulthood (missed and blocked callings) to middle adulthood (conflicted and fractured callings) to late adulthood (unexpected and relinquished callings). A wonderful antidote to simplistic takes on calling!
Other Works
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In the Midst of Chaos: Care of Children as Spiritual Practice
2019
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Let the Children Come: Reimagining Childhood from a Christian Perspective.
2019
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The Wiley Blackwell Reader in Practical Theology
2019
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The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Practical Theology
2016
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Christian Practical Wisdom: What It Is, Why It Matters
2016
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Christian Theology in Practice: Discovering a Discipline
2012
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Also A Mother: Work and Family as Theological Dilemma
1994
Awards and Recognition
- Henry Luce III Fellow in Theology
- Distinguished Alumna Award, University of Chicago, Disciples Divinity House
- E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Chair of Religion, Psychology, and Culture
- Robertson Lecturer, University of Glasgow
