Introducing the Dolly Mama:

Donna Schaper
4 min readApr 19, 2022

She is an irregular Baptist and United Church of Christ preacher, ordained 49 years, becoming more irreverent as the years become decades. She mixes Dolly Parton’s humor with the Dalai Lama’s laugh. She foolishly offers spiritual advice and tries to focus on all the things you’re not supposed to talk about like sex, money and politics. The opinions expressed here belong to

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Donna Schaper

Donna Schaper writes avocationally as the Dolly Mama. She is an irregular Baptist and UCC Clergy person and teaches at the Hartford Seminary. @Bricks/Mortals