Mark R. McMinn

I spent 36 years as an academic and clinical psychologist, educating students, providing clinical services and supervision, doing research, writing journal articles and books, and keeping very busy. These days are different as I learn how to be retired. I've been pondering words like spacious, quiet, invitation, and art as I spend my days on our little fruit farm while puttering away at some writing projects. ​Writing is my way of wrapping words around the important and enduring matters of life. If there is a theme to my writing, it is grace. I truly would be lost without grace. Perhaps we all would be. But the theological certainty I once had is waning, and so I remind myself often that grace is not easily contained or defined. Still, it shows up every day in expected and unexpected ways, in mystery and paradox, and in the gifts we find in each moment if we have eyes to see.