A Return to Love, A Woman's Worth, and Illuminata were #1 New york times bestsellers. She is also the author of a children's book, Emma and mommy Talk to God. Her two most recent books, the Healing of America, and Illuminated Prayer were published by Simon and Schuster last year.

Ms. Williamson is a native of Houston, Texas. She has been lecturing professionally since 1983, and has done extensive charitable organizing throughout the country in service to people with life-threatening illnesses.

Marianne is now the Spiritual Leader of the Church of Today, the Unity Church in Warren, Michigan. (Warren is part of the metro Detroit area.)

Ms Williamson is the Founder of the American Renaissance Alliance http://www.renaissancealliance.org. The American Renaissance Alliance is an organization dedicated to all citizens and their reclamation of their place in the democratic and political process. To this end, they facilitate the joining of spiritual and political pursuits that manifest in political activism.