Cassie Trentaz

Educator, Author, Mediator, Organizer

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PRAISE FOR LOVE IN A TIME OF FEAR AND AUTHOR CASSIE TRENTAZ

“This is a sweet-spirited book, but also quietly devastating, because the voices she features of young people on the margins, routinely harmed by Christian Americans, have such sad stories to tell. I highly recommend this book.”

David P. Gushee –
Professor of Christian Ethics & Director of the Center for Theology and Public Life at Mercer University
President of the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Christian Ethics.

“In the best of ways, I forget that Dr. Cassie Trentaz is White and that she’s a Christian. No one particular reason. She’s just that transcendent of a person which makes her work all that much more important. Unlike many contemporary books and films that seem to take a majority-cultured quick and agenda’d look into the concerns and cultures of “others”, Dr. Trentaz’s work is a slow-paced, pliable gaze into not just the lives of her subjects but into their thoughts, feelings, experiences and resolves. She invites people to share who they are and then listens in a way that makes you want to find someone or be that someone who does the same. If we all could listen and tell the story of others so well, what an inspired civilization we would be. I find her work honest, sincere, revealing and immediately useful leaving me with a sense of being honored, awakened, informed and hopeful.”

Michelle Lang – Artist, Minister, and founder of The Art of Tough Talks.

“I believe in kindness. Also in mischief.” –Mary Oliver

Cassie J. E. H. Trentaz is Associate Professor of Theology, Ethics, and Church History at Warner Pacific University in Portland, Oregon. She is the author of Theology in the Age of AIDS & HIV: Complicity and Possibility (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) and is a parent, partner, neighbor, teacher, minister, activist, and low-key rascal committed to inching, stumbling, and leaping toward glimpses of shalom in the world today following the lead of those often excluded.