Kathy Ackerman is currently a legal assistant in a mid-sized law firm in Minneapolis, and is a wife, a mother and a grandmother. That’s just what she is today. In the past, she has been a newspaper reporter, a newspaper copy editor, an English teacher (albeit a terrible one), a child support enforcement officer, a ranch hand and various other things that needed to be done or were what could be done to keep body and soul together. She was born and raised in southeastern Wyoming, spending her formative years as the daughter of a cattle rancher and a cradle Episcopalian in a community dominated by fundamentalist evangelical Christians. She has outgrown her loathing of all things evangelical but still hates fundamentalism. She remains firmly grounded in the Episcopal Church, and in fact is the Senior Warden (read: chief cook and bottle-washer) of her church. Her interest in theology grew out of helping her husband write his papers while he was earning his Masters of Arts in Religion and Theology, and she hasn’t looked back since.
