Author, Columnist. Born in Birmingham, Alabama, she and her family moved to Dayton, Tennessee when she was in still in school. She attended Bryan College where she was senior editor of the college newspaper. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in 2003. She landed a job with the 'Chattanooga Free Press' before returning to Dayton and a job as columnist with the 'Herald-News.' In 2007, she was awarded Best Personal Humor Column by the Tennessee Press Association. That year she began a website dedicated to her views on Christianity and won a large following. He first book, 'Evolving in Monkey Town: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask the Questions' was published the following year. It would later be re-issued as 'Faith Unraveled.' She became a presence on the internet, and another book, 'A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband Master,' published in 2012, was listed as a New York Times Bestseller. That year, she was named one of 'Christianity Today' magazine’s 50 Women to Watch. Her book, 'Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church' followed in 2015. In addition to her website and books, she spent much of her time in speaking engagements around the United Stated. She served on a White House council for faith-based partnerships during President Obama’s second term. In 2014, citing exhaustion, she retired from the road when she and her husband had their children. She continued writing, however, and a final book, 'Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again' was published in 2018. In April 2019, she was admitted to hospital with flu-like symptoms and then suffered a severe allergic reaction to antibiotics administered. When her symptoms expanded to brain seizures, she was placed into a medically induced coma. After a swelling of her brain caused severe damage, she passed away at age 37.