About Suzanne Titkemeyer

Suzanne Titkemeyer went from a childhood in Louisiana to a life lived in the shadow of Washington D.C. For many years she worked in a variety of fields, including the field of social work, from national licensure to working hands on in a children’s residential treatment center. Suzanne has been involved with helping with the plights of women and children’ in religious bondage for the last 15 years. Ten of those years she wrote a daily column for Patheos titled “No Longer Quivering” that dealt with the abuses and problems inherent in Quiverfull Evangelical churches. She’s written for a wide variety of publications, including contributing a chapter to Jonathan Pearce’s book “Not Seeing God”. She is a ordained Stephen’s Minister with counseling experience. Now she’s retired to be a full time beach bum in Tamarindo, Costa Rica with the monkeys and iguanas. She is also a thalassophile. She also left behind years in a Quiverfull church and loves to chronicle the worst abuses of that particular theology on her Substack – With Strange Fire. She has been happily married to her best friend James for the last 36 years