Dr. Nancy Copeland-Payton

DR. NANCY COPELAND-PAYTON is an ordained clergywoman in the Presbyterian Church (USA), a spiritual director, and a physician who practiced emergency medicine and internal medicine for twenty years. She is the author of The Losses of Our Lives: The Sacred Gifts of Renewal in Everyday Loss.

Copeland-Payton served a nine-year ministry at First Presbyterian Church in Sandpoint, Idaho, and has directed the two-year Spiritual Training Program at Gonzaga University. She has also worked as a hospital chaplain and church pastor.

When she’s not writing, Copeland-Payton leads retreats and workshops at monasteries, church centers, and with hospice organizations, and speaks as a presenter on loss and renewal. Her work draws directly on her decades accompanying people through life’s losses.

Nancy lives in Bonner County, Idaho, and is married with three grown sons.

Dr. Nancy Copeland-Payton’s books are published by SkyLight Paths, an imprint of Turner Publishing.

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