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About MaryAnn
MaryAnn McKibben Dana is a writer, speaker, and ministry coach living in the Virginia suburbs of DC. She is author of Hope: A User’s Manual (2022), God, Improv, and the Art of Living (2018), and Sabbath in the Suburbs (2012). In addition to her books, her writing has appeared in TIME.com, The Washington Post, Huffington Post, Religion Dispatches, and the Christian Century. She was featured on PBS’s Religion and Ethics Newsweekly for her work on Sabbath, and was recognized by the Presbyterian Writers Guild with the 2015-2016 David Steele Distinguished Writer Award.
She currently serves as Associate Pastor at Trinity Presbyterian Church in Herndon, VA, and while she and congregation are pretty copacetic, any views expressed here are her own.
MaryAnn is a graduate of Rice University in Houston, Texas (Peck ‘em Owls!) and received her M.Div. from Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia. She is a mother of three, an imperfect knitter, and an occasional ultramarathoner. Connect with her at her website.
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