renee altson

About me:

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I am the author of "Stumbling Toward Faith" -- re-released by Zondervan in 2008. You can see all the info about the book, and order it at stumblingtowardfaith.com.I am the Web content specialist at Youth Specialties. I am the managing editor for The Journal of Student Ministries, and blog and am on staff at Infuze Magazine. I'm also a rock star! Download my song "American Fado" at iTunes (for the backstory, see my blog)

I collect snow globes and bags. My prize possession is a saddlebag from Cirque Du Soleil. It's made out of material from the tent! It's blue and yellow, slightly scuffed, and it smells like acrobat/circus sweat.

I have a habit of building altars in my spaces. I usually craft them from candles, stones, and other things I find meaningful. I think it's my way of preserving the sacred in my mundane moments--of creating something special in the midst of the ordinary.

I have a daughter and husband who are the lights of my life. I've been married 12 years this year, and my kid will be 9 that very same month.

You can hear a recent 2-hour interview with me, on the Steve Brown etc. Show here.

I am married, motherless, a mother. I am iced cappucino and almond-honey scones. I am gregorian chants. I am daffodils and irises and lilies and ivy. I am chocolate covered espresso beans, patchouli oil and raspberry bubble bath. I am dried flowers and vaulted ceilings, I am sandalwood incense and stubby white candles, I am a convertible with the top down in a thunder and lightning storm, I am Bach and Beethoven and the Unfinished Symphony. I am actively seeking. I am wanting to believe and yet afraid to. I am doubt and belief, I am found and am lost. I am done and undone, fragmented and whole.