Wendy Alsup is the author of Practical Theology for Women, Companions in Suffering: Comfort for Times of Loss and Loneliness and I Forgive You: Finding Peace and Moving Forward when Life Really Hurtsas well as several other books. She began her public ministry as deacon of women’s theology and teaching at her church in Seattle, but she now lives on an old family farm in South Carolina, where she teaches math at a local community college and is a mother to her two boys. She writes at theologyforwomen.org. She is a member of a local church in the Lowcountry Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church in America.