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I am a psychologist, speaker, and author of The Spirit of Vanderlaan, my debut novel released in December of 2024. This book is a fun, cozy, ghost story featuring a professor, Samantha Hayes, and her lively band of students who get caught up in solving a campus mystery. This book draws on my teaching career of over thirty years to capture the camaraderie and warmth between a professor and the assortment of personalities which inhabit her office.

I have also published extensively on equality between women and men. My first book, Buried Talents, explores the subtle ways women are discouraged from entering male-dominated occupations. Buried Talents was named a winner in InterVarsity Press’s 2022 Readers’ Choice Awards.

Breaking the Rules

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“Do something outside the norms of your own gender and notice the reactions of those around you.” That was one of the first assignments I gave my students when I taught a gender studies course.

Their responses were creative.

One young woman parked in the lot of a local department store, opened the hood, and began looking for “the problem.” She assured each wo

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"Other reviews have critiqued this book for not being what they expected, believing that this book would outline the theological and Scriptural support for biblical equality. The author stays within her professional focus as a psychologist, exploring " Read more of this review »
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I couldn't put this book down. The characters were well-developed and the plot intriguing. I genuinely liked and felt for Jake throughout - first as the struggling writer who couldn't seem to get a break and then for his conscience (and terror) for r ...more
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Although Fannie Flagg is one of my all-time favorite authors, I didn't find Something to Look Forward To as engaging as her other books. Yet it's still good and worth reading. I loved the chapters devoted to Velma and Cathy and would love to see a wh ...more
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