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'''Dana Trent''' ([[née]] '''Lewman /''' lumən '''/''' ; born April 11, 1981), known professionally as '''J. Dana Trent''', is an American author, teacher, and minister.<ref name="Bennett">{{Cite web|last=Bennett|first=Mark|title='Breaking Good' in rural America|url=https://www.tribstar.com/features/valley_life/breaking-good-in-rural-america/article_3fe8ccad-0cb3-5437-93fe-ab876b312816.html|access-date=2021-07-08|website=Terre Haute Tribune-Star|date=30 January 2021 |language=en}}</ref> Trent is a full-time Humanities faculty member at [[Wake Technical Community College|Wake Tech Community College]] in [[Raleigh, North Carolina]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Wake Tech Humanities Faculty|date=29 January 2021|url=https://www.waketech.edu/about-wake-tech/divisions/art-humanities-and-social-sciences/departments/humanities/faculty}}</ref> Trent's debut trade memoir from Penguin Random House, ''[https://www.libraryjournal.com/review/between-two-trailers-a-memoir-1802471 Between Two Trailers,]'' received a starred review from Library Journal. |
'''Dana Trent''' ([[née]] '''Lewman /''' lumən '''/''' ; born April 11, 1981), known professionally as '''J. Dana Trent''', is an American author, teacher, and minister.<ref name="Bennett">{{Cite web|last=Bennett|first=Mark|title='Breaking Good' in rural America|url=https://www.tribstar.com/features/valley_life/breaking-good-in-rural-america/article_3fe8ccad-0cb3-5437-93fe-ab876b312816.html|access-date=2021-07-08|website=Terre Haute Tribune-Star|date=30 January 2021 |language=en}}</ref> Trent is a full-time Humanities faculty member at [[Wake Technical Community College|Wake Tech Community College]] in [[Raleigh, North Carolina]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Wake Tech Humanities Faculty|date=29 January 2021|url=https://www.waketech.edu/about-wake-tech/divisions/art-humanities-and-social-sciences/departments/humanities/faculty}}</ref> Trent's debut trade memoir from Penguin Random House, ''[https://www.libraryjournal.com/review/between-two-trailers-a-memoir-1802471 Between Two Trailers,]'' received a starred review from Library Journal.<ref name="Library Journal">{{cite web |last1=Miller |first1=Denise |title=Between Two Trailers: A Memoir |url=https://www.libraryjournal.com/review/between-two-trailers-a-memoir-1802471 |website=Library Journal |access-date=7 April 2024}}</ref> Kirkus Reviews calls it a "A powerfully intimate look into the struggles of American poverty and mental illness."<ref>{{cite web |title=Between Two Trailers: A Memoir |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/j-dana-trent/between-two-trailers/ |publisher=Kirkus Reviews |access-date=7 April 2024}}</ref> Publisher's Weekly compared Trent's work to [[Jeannette Walls]] and [[Tara Westover]]. <ref>{{cite web |title=Between Two Trailers: A Memoir |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780593444078 |website=Publishers Weekly |publisher=Publishers Weekly |access-date=7 April 2024}}</ref> |
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== Early Books == |
== Early Books == |
Revision as of 16:11, 7 April 2024
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Born | Judith Dana Lewman April 11, 1981 Arcadia, California, U.S. |
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Website | jdanatrent |
Dana Trent (née Lewman / lumən / ; born April 11, 1981), known professionally as J. Dana Trent, is an American author, teacher, and minister.[1] Trent is a full-time Humanities faculty member at Wake Tech Community College in Raleigh, North Carolina.[2] Trent's debut trade memoir from Penguin Random House, Between Two Trailers, received a starred review from Library Journal.[3] Kirkus Reviews calls it a "A powerfully intimate look into the struggles of American poverty and mental illness."[4] Publisher's Weekly compared Trent's work to Jeannette Walls and Tara Westover. [5]
Early Books
She is the author of four books: Saffron Cross: The Unlikely Story of How a Christian Minister Married a Hindu Monk (2013),[6] For Sabbath's Sake: Embracing Your Need for Rest, Worship, and Community (2017),[7] One Breath at a Time: A Skeptic's Guide to Christian Meditation (2019),[8] and Dessert First: Preparing for Death While Savoring Life (2019).[9]
Early life
Trent's father, Richard Lewman, was a recreational therapist diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder.[10][11] Her mother had mental illness too. The couple met in a locked inpatient psychiatric institute four years before she was born.[11] Her parents followed televangelist Robert Schuller to Los Angeles before she was born to be near the Crystal Cathedral.[11] They hoped Schuller's message of self-healing and self-empowerment would allow them to conceive a child. About a year later, Trent was born in Los Angeles and named for the Indiana town where her father was from.[11]
Trent was born in Los Angeles, and moved to Dana, Indiana as an infant. According to Religion News Service, Trent grew up in a trailer in the small town of Dana, Indiana, the daughter of parents who sold and used drugs.[12] Trent’s father trained her in the drug business; her street name was “Budgie.”[11] The name is a label given to parakeets.[13] She lived in Indiana until age six, when her parents divorced and she moved with her mother to North Carolina.[1] Trent attended Reidsville High School in Reidsville, North Carolina, and won a Rockingham Community College sponsored speech contest for high schoolers in 1996.[14] She was the 1998 winner of the “I Dare You Leadership Award.”[15]
Podcast
Trent first publicly shared her drug-trafficking upbringing in “Breaking Good,” a podcast produced in conjunction with the Lilly Endowment-funded Louisville Institute.[11] Trent is writing a book version of the podcast that will tell the story in greater depth.[11] Her agent is Mark Tauber.[16]
Controversy
Trent is one of only 2,500 women total ordained in the Southern Baptist tradition.[17] She is publicly critical of Beth Moore, criticizing Moore's stance on complementarianism.[18] On State of Belief with Welton Gaddy, Trent questioned Moore's apology and timing of leaving the Southern Baptist Convention.[19] Trent says that Moore was unwilling to abandon complementarianism all together, suggesting that Moore believes there are circumstances in which complementarianism is appropriate and that Moore benefits from a "neutral posture" on complementarianism.[18]
Career
Trent is one of the few female ordained Southern Baptist ministers in the United States. She graduated from Duke Divinity School with a Master of Divinity in 2006.[20] After graduating from Duke at the age of 25, she served as a UNC Health intensive care resident chaplain where she worked with terminal patients and bore witness to 200 deaths in one year.[21] Publishers Weekly called Trent's fourth book, Dessert First, “hilarious and poignant.”[21] According to Englewood Review of Books, Dessert First decidedly is not a treatise expounding traditional Christian views on death. Trent’s focus instead is starting the conversation about death early and often, regardless of the reader’s faith background.[22]
Personal life
Trent married Fred Eaker in July 2010 after meeting him on eHarmony.[23]
Works
- Trent, J. Dana (2013). Saffron Cross: The Unlikely Story of How a Christian Minister Married a Hindu Monk. Fresh Air Books. ISBN 978-1-935205-16-6.
- Trent, J. Dana (2017-10-01). For Sabbath's Sake: Embracing Your Need for Rest, Worship, and Community. Upper Room Books. ISBN 978-0-8358-1721-9.
- Trent, J. Dana (2019-01-01). One Breath at a Time: A Skeptic's Guide to Christian Meditation. Upper Room Books. ISBN 978-0-8358-1857-5.
- Trent, J. Dana (2019-09-10). Dessert First: Preparing for Death While Savoring Life. Chalice Press. ISBN 978-0-8272-0669-4.
References
- ^ a b Bennett, Mark (30 January 2021). "'Breaking Good' in rural America". Terre Haute Tribune-Star. Retrieved 2021-07-08.
- ^ "Wake Tech Humanities Faculty". 29 January 2021.
- ^ Miller, Denise. "Between Two Trailers: A Memoir". Library Journal. Retrieved 7 April 2024.
- ^ "Between Two Trailers: A Memoir". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 7 April 2024.
- ^ "Between Two Trailers: A Memoir". Publishers Weekly. Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 7 April 2024.
- ^ "Dana Trent – Saffron Cross [Review]". Englewood Review of Books. 15 November 2013.
- ^ "For Sabbath's Sake: Embracing Your Need for Rest, Worship, and Community". The Presbyterian Outlook. 2017-10-19. Retrieved 2021-06-08.
- ^ "One Breath at a Time: A Skeptic's Guide to Christian Meditation". The Presbyterian Outlook. 2019-07-15. Retrieved 2021-06-08.
- ^ Trent, J. Dana (2019). Dessert first : preparing for death while savoring life. St. Louis, Missouri. ISBN 978-0-8272-0669-4. OCLC 1089904694.
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Tribune-Star, Mark Bennett (20 November 2021). "Revisiting a hard past to help others". Terre Haute Tribune-Star. Retrieved 2023-01-16.
- ^ a b c d e f g Shimron, Yonat (September 24, 2021). "J. Dana Trent turns her drug-dealing childhood into a podcast about poverty and faith". Religion News Service. Retrieved January 16, 2023.
- ^ "J. Dana Trent turns her drug-dealing childhood into a podcast about poverty and faith". Religion News Service. 2021-09-24. Retrieved 2023-01-16.
- ^ Indiana, Mark Bennett CNHI News (20 November 2021). "Revisiting a hard past to help others". Kokomo Tribune. Retrieved 2023-01-16.
- ^ "HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS VIE IN SPEECH CONTEST". Greensboro News and Record. 28 March 1996. Retrieved 2021-06-09.
- ^ "STUDENTS HONORED FOR ACHIEVEMENTS". Greensboro News and Record. 29 August 1998. Retrieved 2021-06-09.
- ^ "The Watermark Agency". January 16, 2023. Retrieved January 16, 2023.
- ^ Shaw, Susan M. (June 1, 2021). "How women in the Southern Baptist Convention have fought for decades to be ordained". The Conversation.
- ^ a b Trent, J. Dana (2021-04-12). "Dear Beth Moore: Your Apology for Complementarianism Reeks of Complementarianism". Religion Dispatches. Retrieved 2023-01-16.
- ^ "More on Beth Moore - State of Belief". 2021-04-17. Retrieved 2023-01-16.
- ^ "Baptist minister Dana Trent details marriage to Hindu monk in just-released 'Saffron Cross'". Baptist News Global. 2013-10-29. Retrieved 2021-06-09.
- ^ a b "Religion Book Review: Dessert First: Preparing for Death while Savoring Life by J. Dana Trent. Chalice, $16.99 trade paper (160p) ISBN 978-0-8272-0669-4". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 2021-06-09.
- ^ Smith, C. Christopher (2019-11-14). "J. Dana Trent – Dessert First – Review". The Englewood Review of Books. Retrieved 2023-01-16.
- ^ "Baptist minister Dana Trent details marriage to Hindu monk in just-released 'Saffron Cross'". Religion News Service. 2013-10-25. Retrieved 2021-06-09.
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