What Is That Thing?

About the Book

What Is that Thing? is more than a book. It is an experiential spiritual, ontological, and historical journey into the depths of who we really are. This process leads the reader to directly name and face what those things are about them, within them, and around them that tend to keep them from experiencing life to the fullest. Dr. Moore describes this work as a process to be engaged and a journey to be taken together. It is not often that you will find an ordained itinerate elder and licensed clinical social worker use poetry to help individuals become all who God has purposed them to be. Yet this writer, through her poetry, reaches the innermost areas of those who will take this journey that will lead them toward self-examination and healing.

About the Author

Somewhere in the recesses of our minds, lurking and hiding in the shadows of the thoughts of our hearts while exercising ill-assumed authority and power over who we think we are as well as over how we believe we need to be, there is some thing seeking to control us, determined not to let us see that we are already free. And, as long and as hard as I have tried to understand it and figure it out, I really haven't been able to, so, would somebody tell me please, "What is that thing?" As a spirit-warrior, Rev. Dr. Janae Moore lives, loves and learns with a passionate desire that all will come to know and be the Truth of who we are as only God has created us to be. With a heart for the least of us, she is particularly committed to the spiritual consciousness raising, healing an liberation of the socially and racially oppressed, marginalized and devalued. Her poetic and narrative writings, teaching, preaching, mediating and mentoring are all directed to this optimal end. Dr. Moore is a clinically trained chaplin and licensed clinical social worker who specializes in the deep inner work necessary for addressing and healing multi-generational issues of loss, grief, wounding, violence, unconsciousness and depression. Dr. Moore is an itinerant elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Church and is currently on the ministerial staff (at Mt. Zion AME in Severn, Maryland where she heads the Spiritual Healing Ministry. She is an adjunct professor at Morgan State University in the School of Social Work and is the founder and facilitator of Taranga House Spiritual Retreat & Practice Center and Lov'N Poetry Ministries. Her utmost is being a child of God who is a proud and praying mother, grandmother, sister, aunt, niece, cousin, friend and citizen of the world.