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Dana Trent (née Lewman / lumən / ; born April 11, 1981), known professionally as J. Dana Trent, is an American author, professor, and minister from Dana, Indiana.[1] Trent is a full-time Humanities faculty member at Wake Tech Community College in Raleigh, North Carolina.[2] She is the author of four books: Saffron Cross: The Unlikely Story of How a Christian Minister Married a Hindu Monk (Fresh Air Books, 2013),[3] For Sabbath’s Sake: Embracing Your Need for Rest, Worship, and Community (Upper Room Books, 2017),[4] One Breath at a Time: A Skeptic’s Guide to Christian Meditation (Upper Room Books, 2019),[5] and Dessert First: Preparing for Death While Savoring Life (Chalice Press, 2019).[6] Trent is a researcher with specific interest in the midwest. Her research and subsequent advocacy focuses on collaborative responses to systemic poverty, mental illness, and addiction, specifically in western Indiana. Her research is support with grant funding through the Louisville Institute.[7] Trent was instrumental in securing funding for a new community center in her hometown of Dana, Indiana.[8]

Early life

Trent was born in Arcadia, California and moved to Dana, Indiana, her namesake, at an early age. As a toddler, Trent worked in father’s drug-trafficking business as a lookout, nicknamed Budgie.[9] She moved to North Carolina at age six, but spent summers with her grandparents in Dana, Indiana.[10] Trent attended Reidsville High School in Reidsville, North Carolina, and a Rockingham Community College sponsored speech contest for high schoolers in 1996.[11] She was the 1998 winner of the “I Dare You Leadership Award.”[12]

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.[13] 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. [14] Publishers Weekly called Trent's fourth book, Dessert First, “hilarious and poignant.”[14]

Trent is a community college professor dedicated to helping young adults process death and grief in using the context of World Religions. In her college classroom, she helps students understand the meaning of life and grief from the perspective of religion and spirituality.[15] During the pandemic, Trent, who is active in the Death-Positive Movement, told ABC News that Americans should consider having more candid conversations about death, loss, and grief, saying that COVID had "awakened" society to the reality of death.[16]

Trent was often featured as a Wake Tech Community College faculty expert for WRAL and CBS 17 in the areas of coping with anxiety, stress, and pandemic re-entry. [17][18] She is an advocate for technology sabbaths.[19]

Controversy

Trent is one of only 2,500 women total ordained in the Southern Baptist tradition.[20] Trent criticized prominent Baptist teacher Beth Moore's 2021 stance on complementarianism after Moore's departure of the SBC.[21] Trent has been candidly open about the SBC's misogyny of of white evangelicals in general.[22] Trent received push-back for paralleling Moore's stance on complementarianism with the white women's refusal to be actively anti-racist.[23] Trent is also and outspoken proponent of interfaith marriage and has been critiqued on her stance of "unequally yoked" theology.[24]

Personal life

Trent married Fred Eaker in July 2010 after meeting him on eHarmony.[25] Eaker is an American-born devout Hindu who converted and served as a monk for five years. Their interfaith marriage is the subject of Trent’s first book, Saffron Cross.[26]

Works

  • Saffron Cross: The Unlikely Story of How a Christian Minister Married a Hindu Monk[27] (Fresh Air Books, 2013), ISBN: 1935205161
  • For Sabbath’s Sake: Embracing Your Need for Rest, Worship, and Community [28] (Upper Room Books, 2017), ISBN: 0835817199
  • One Breath at a Time: A Skeptic’s Guide to Christian Meditation [29] (Upper Room Books, 2019), ISBN: 0835818578
  • Dessert First: Preparing for Death While Savoring Life [30] (Chalice Press, 2019), ISBN: 0827206690

References

  1. ^ Tribune-Star, Mark Bennett. "'Breaking Good' in rural America". Terre Haute Tribune-Star. Retrieved 2021-07-08.
  2. ^ "Wake Tech Humanities Faculty". 29 January 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. ^ "Dana Trent – Saffron Cross [Review]". Englewood Review of Books. 15 November 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  4. ^ "For Sabbath's Sake: Embracing Your Need for Rest, Worship, and Community". The Presbyterian Outlook. 2017-10-19. Retrieved 2021-06-08.
  5. ^ "One Breath at a Time: A Skeptic's Guide to Christian Meditation". The Presbyterian Outlook. 2019-07-15. Retrieved 2021-06-08.
  6. ^ Trent, J. Dana (2019). Dessert first : preparing for death while savoring life. St. Louis, Missouri. ISBN 978-0-8272-0669-4. OCLC 1089904694.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  7. ^ "Breaking Good: The Church's Faithful Response to Systemic Poverty, Mental Illness, and Drug Addiction in Flyover Country". Louisville Institute.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  8. ^ Tribune-Star, Mark Bennett. "Mark Bennett: Dana envisions a new community center as hub of activities, services". Terre Haute Tribune-Star. Retrieved 2021-07-08.
  9. ^ "Drop: Essays by readers". The Christian Century. Retrieved 2021-06-09.
  10. ^ "'Breaking Good' in rural America". Tribune-Star.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  11. ^ "HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS VIE IN SPEECH CONTEST". Greensboro News and Record. Retrieved 2021-06-09.
  12. ^ "STUDENTS HONORED FOR ACHIEVEMENTS". Greensboro News and Record. Retrieved 2021-06-09.
  13. ^ "Baptist minister Dana Trent details marriage to Hindu monk in just-released 'Saffron Cross'". Baptist News Global. 2013-10-29. Retrieved 2021-06-09.
  14. ^ 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.
  15. ^ "J. Dana Trent is on a mission to discuss death with the post-Millennial generation". Religion News Service. 2020-02-03. Retrieved 2021-06-09.
  16. ^ News, A. B. C. "Death Cafes help ease grief, loss in the time of coronavirus". ABC News. Retrieved 2021-07-08. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  17. ^ "Coronavirus uncertainty brings anxiety, fear". WRAL.com. 2020-03-17. Retrieved 2021-06-09.
  18. ^ "Experts say mental health impact of COVID-19 must be studied". CBS17.com. 2020-04-17. Retrieved 2021-06-09.
  19. ^ "The science of 'Technology Shabbat'". National Catholic Reporter. 2019-07-08. Retrieved 2021-07-08.
  20. ^ Shaw, Susan M. (June 1, 2021). "How women in the Southern Baptist Convention have fought for decades to be ordained". The Conversation.
  21. ^ Trent, J. Dana (2021-04-12). "Dear Beth Moore: Your Apology for Complementarianism Reeks of Complementarianism". Religion Dispatches. Retrieved 2021-07-08.
  22. ^ "More on Beth Moore". State of Belief. Retrieved 2021-07-08.
  23. ^ Atheist, Friendly. "Critic: Beth Moore's Mild Critique of Complementarianism Didn't Go Far Enough". Friendly Atheist. Retrieved 2021-07-08.
  24. ^ "A Hindu Monk and a Baptist Preacher got married… - Juicy Ecumenism". Juicy Ecumenism. 2013-11-29. Retrieved 2021-07-08.
  25. ^ "Baptist minister Dana Trent details marriage to Hindu monk in just-released 'Saffron Cross'". Religion News Service. 2013-10-25. Retrieved 2021-06-09.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  26. ^ "How Christians Get Interfaith Marriage Wrong". Time. Retrieved 2021-06-09.
  27. ^ 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.
  28. ^ 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.
  29. ^ 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.
  30. ^ Trent, J. Dana (2019-09-10). Dessert First: Preparing for Death While Savoring Life. Chalice Press. ISBN 978-0-8272-0669-4.
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