Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore is E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Chair and Professor of Religion, Psychology, and Culture, Emerita at Vanderbilt University. She earned her PhD from the University of Chicago and has spent over thirty-five years teaching and writing, her publications spanning eighteen books and over a hundred chapters and articles. She is a Henry Luce III Fellow in Theology and has received numerous awards and grants for the study of teaching and vocation, practical theology, and women and childhood studies.