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A Movement of Grace: My Soundtrack of Liberation and the Role of Music Today was written during the COVID-19 pandemic, just months after I moved from New York to Atlanta, Georgia to teach while completing my book.
Writing your own story should be a fairly easy task, and completed
within a few months to a year, right? (I wrote and published my
original book, Validation Denied, Grace Bestowed: somewhere
between the ghetto and God was something called foster care…
(2004) in about 4 months!). But when you factor in unprecedented shifts in society and the world,
including the pandemic, acute injustice, social unrest, consequential
presidential elections, along with the sorely needed insert of block-
buster films, concerts, profound guidance of major clergy, and the
social actions by some of your favorite musicians, your story
commands extra research to be sure to credit or cite their work
properly, which is what I've done in A Movement of Grace. It
took about 4 1/2 years to complete.
A Movement of Grace: My Soundtrack of Liberation and the
Role of Music Today is human-authored, meaning it flowed from
my heart, brain, and fingers that tap danced all over the keyboard
of my laptop, to bring you a professional, creative, bold, authentic,
story with the music that helped me cope…and dream. - Quelyn
Through poetry, songs (titles) from gospel and jazz to pop, classical, and rap that illuminate the narrative in every chapter, I reveal the “hard stuff” in my life from back in the day as a teenager, college freshman, and young adult, through today’s post-pandemic challenges.
A Movement of Grace: My Soundtrack of Liberation and the Role of Music Today opens with a melodious invocation song (title) by a world-renowned pop artist (p. v) and ends with a celebration by a world-renowned gospel musician to honor the very life force - God - that got us still here, still breathing! (p. 186).
QUELYN PURDIE, MAPCCAuthor, Educator
For over 30 years Quelyn has served youth and families of diverse backgrounds through teaching in New York City and Atlanta public schools, casework, consultation and advocacy at children and family agencies, and coaching group leaders at an afterschool program.
Her childhood experiences and professional background in family services informed her first book, Validation Denied, Grace Bestowed: somewhere between the ghetto and God was something called foster care… (iUniverse Inc., 2004). Validation Denied, Grace Bestowed portrays a young teenager who struggles with identity and the stigma of living in foster care. However, through a process of awakening and realizing self-worth as a young woman, she learns to forgive her past and love herself.
A Movement of Grace: My Soundtrack of Liberation and the Role of Music Today offers new insight and perspectives into Purdie’s original piece. Written during the COVID-19 pandemic, A Movement of Grace explores the intersection of music and healing by highlighting the impact of music on Purdie’s own life from back in the day as a teenager, college freshman, and young adult, through today’s post-pandemic challenges.
Purdie holds a B.A. in Communication Studies and a minor in Theatre from SUNY at Oswego. In 2017 she earned a Master of Arts in Pastoral Care and Counseling from New York Theological Seminary, where she learned how to integrate spirituality and clinical approaches to ministry toward a holistic process of healing people in need. Her capstone project, Song of The Human Heart: How To Integrate Music in Pastoral Counseling, demonstrates the importance and successful integration of the art form in clinical settings, and life.
She is a certified mental health first responder and will continue studies toward licensure in preventative substance use disorder counseling.
Purdie is CEO of QUILSTER.COM, now the merch brand of Quilsun Publishing LLC Specialty gifts previously conceived and designed by Quelyn - to uplift and celebrate today’s human expression - will be reintroduced on our site by 2025. Stay tuned! IG: Pen2paypuh
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a movement of grace is a personal movement
a spiritual movementa movement in history anda moving symphony.
Join the 🎵ovement.-Quelyn
Join the 🎵ovement.-Quelyn