Patheos Featured Writers

Enuma Okoro (M.Div) was born in the NYC but reared in four countries on three continents. A writer, speaker, consultant, and retreat / workshop leader, she has written for ABC's Good Morning America, Sojourners, Christianity Today, Weavings Journal of the Christian Spiritual Life, and others. Okoro is the former director of the Center for Theological Writing at Duke University Divinity School, of which she is a graduate.

Her spiritual memoir, Reluctant Pilgrim: A Moody, Somewhat Self-Indulgent, Introvert's Search for Spiritual Community (Fresh Air Books, 2010) was a 2010 finalist for USA Book News National Best Books Awards, and a 2011 finalist for the National Indie Excellence Awards. She is also co-author with Shane Claiborne and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, on Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals. When she's not writing she can be found with a cup of coffee or a glass of wine in hand, depending on the time of day.

Follow Enuma at Tweetenuma and visit www.enumaokoro.com