About the author

Jeanette Blonigen Clancy is an educator and writer living in Avon, Minnesota. She has taught languages and communication to adolescents and adults in a variety of settings, and currently she supervises teacher candidates.

Brought up in a blanketing Catholic atmosphere, she obtained a Master’s degree in systematic theology from St. John’s University, Collegeville, Minnesota, but claims an eclectic and generic spirituality. Her graduate degree led to independent study of the historical Jesus, mythology, scripture, spirituality, and comparative religion.

Besides writing two local history books, she contributed an essay to the anthology The Rule of Mars: Readings on the Origins, History and Impact of Patriarchy. In addition, she has written for many periodicals, striving to build spiritual understanding, global justice, and cooperation between nations and religions. Her monthly column appears on the opinion page of the St. Cloud Times.