Patricia Raybon

Patricia Raybon is the award-winning author of I Told the Mountain to Move, her popular prayer memoir which was a 2006 Book of the Year Finalist in Christianity Today Magazine’s annual book awards; My First White Friend, her racial forgiveness memoir which won the prestigious Christopher Award; a top-rated One Year® devotional on Bible virtues God blesses entitled God’s Great Blessings; and co-author of a tribute book honoring African American spirituals called Bound for Glory.Her newest book, co-authored with youngest daughter Alana Raybon, is Undivided: A Muslim Daughter, Her Christian Mother, Their Path to Peace. A fascinating memoir of their struggle to heal their faith-torn relationship, the book released April 2015 from Thomas Nelson and W Publishing Group.Patricia’s personal essays on family and faith have been published in The New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, USA Today, USA Weekend, Country Living Magazine, Chicago Tribune, The Denver Post, Guideposts, In Touch Magazine of Charles Stanley Ministries, and aired on National Public Radio.A journalist by training, Patricia earned a B.A. in journalism from Ohio State University and an M.A. in journalism from the University of Colorado at Boulder. She worked for a dozen years in Denver as a newspaper journalist at The Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News.Mid-career she joined the journalism faculty at the University of Colorado at Boulder where she taught print journalism for 15 years, getting promoted to professor emerita in 2006.She now writes full-time on matters of faith. She's also mom to two grown daughters, a “Grammy” to five grandchildren, mother-in-law to one “son,” and the wife of 39 years to her husband Dan.She makes her home with Dan in Colorado where she grew up. In all of this, she seeks to live in the spirit of a favorite Scripture: “But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.” (Isaiah 40:31 (KJV)