Marsha Hansen, a former Naval Officer turned educator, is the author of Finding God in the Shadows: Stories From the Battlefield of Life and My Soul is a Witness: The Message of the Spirituals in Word and Song.
I am strongly influenced by my mother and by my father in terms of ethics and intellectual interests. I enjoy the works of a wide range of authors from Dietrich Bonhoeffer, C.S. Lewis, and Frederick Douglass, to James Nordoff Hall, Alexander McCall-Smith, Madeleine L'Engle, Beth Moore and Gerald Schroeder. Musically, I love a range of voices from Jessye Norman to Norah Jones, and listen to almost everything from Handel to the Rolling Stones. I am very much interested in the Harlem Renaissance artists and writers, and am still shaped by my rural upbringing and the social energies generated in the late 50's through the 1960's.
Favorite Books
Dr. Dogbody's Leg, Crime and Punishment, Echoes of the Mekong, A Stone for a Pillow,Blue Shoes and Happiness, The Bible, Three Weeks With My Brother
Favorite Authors
Alexander McCall-Smith
Jan Karon
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Beth Moore
C.S. Lewis
Guy DeMaupassant
What I'm Reading
A Thousand Splendid Suns
The Hidden Face of God
The Evolution of Physics
Back in 1971 when I was a senior in high school in Waco, Texas, I won a prize in a national writing contest. It was sponsored by Alpha Kappa Alpha. Along with the winners from other states, I was flown to Chicago and then taken on a life-changing tour to Philadelphia, Virginia, Washington D.C., New York, and even into Canada. We stayed at the luxurious Palmer House in ...
I anticipate that public reaction to my soon to be released book God is Real: Experience His Presence (ISBN 9780982265505) will include more than a few raised eyebrows and more than a few questions on the order, “Was she smoking something?” In anticipation of such, I want to excerpt my next book, Holy Curiosity: God, Science, and Religion to provide a context ...
Wright and Wise: Race, Politics, and the Next Right Thing I followed the Jeremiah Wright controversy with interest after his remarks were presented and discussed in various media, and recently read a Blog from Tim Wise on White Privilege wherein he contrasts perceptions about the McCain and Obama tickets. Whatever one believes about race or religion and their impact on politics in ...
