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Patricia Raybon

Biography

Patricia Raybon

Patricia Raybon is the award-winning author of I TOLD THE MOUNTAIN TO MOVE, a 2006 Book of the Year finalist in Christianity Today magazine’s annual book awards competition; and MY FIRST WHITE FRIEND, her racial forgiveness memoir that won the Christopher Award. She is also author of the One Year® devotional, GOD'S GREAT BLESSINGS. A journalist by training, Patricia has written essays on family and faith, which have been published in the New York Times Sunday Magazine, Newsweek, Chicago Tribune, USA Today, USA Weekend and In Touch of In Touch Ministries; and aired on National Public Radio. She is also a regular contributor to Today’s Christian Woman online magazine.

With degrees in journalism from Ohio State University and the University of Colorado at Boulder, Patricia worked a dozen years as a newspaper journalist for the Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News. She later joined the journalism faculty at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where for fifteen years she taught print journalism. Patricia now writes full-time on “mountain-moving faith.”

Patricia and her husband, Dan, are longtime residents of Colorado and have two grown daughters and five grandchildren. Founder of the Writing Ministry at her Denver church, Patricia coaches and encourages aspiring authors around the country and is a member of the Colorado Authors League and the Authors Guild.

Patricia Raybon

Books by Patricia Raybon

by Patricia Raybon and Alana Raybon - Christian, Memoir, Nonfiction

They didn’t talk. Not for 10 years. Not about faith anyway. Instead, a mother and daughter tiptoed with pain around the deepest gulf in their lives --- the daughter’s choice to leave the church, convert to Islam and become a practicing Muslim. UNDIVIDED is a real-time story of healing and understanding with alternating narratives from each as they struggle to learn how to love each other in a whole new way.