The Young Clergy Women Project
A network of the youngest ordained clergy women.
There’s a moment in every area clergy gathering or general church meeting I’ve come to expect over the past few years—it’s that second when there’s a pause in conversation and I begin to look around the room of gathered religious leaders and suddenly realize I’m either a) the only person under the age of 55, [...]
I attended my first Young Clergy Women Project (YCWP) conference last summer, in Chicago, IL. I had followed Fidelia’s Sisters for years after graduation from seminary, and when a call for new members of the Editorial Board was posted I realized I might “age out” before the next opportunity. Suddenly I was the newest editor [...]
Even before graduation, I knew what it was like to leave that beloved built-in community of seminary. I’d had a foretaste of it when I spent my third year of seminary doing a yearlong full-time internship. I was in Florida. My seminary classmates and friends were in Georgia. My family was in Michigan. I was [...]
Calling New Board Members! The Young Clergy Women Project is organized by two boards – the Community Board and the Editorial Board. Both boards create vision and direction for the project, as well as having their own roles: The Community Board is the group of women who dream, foster, plan and coordinate community activities. This [...]
In the five-plus years that Fidelia’s Sisters has been sharing stories of the life of ministry for young clergy women, columns have come and gone as the needs of our community have grown and changed. Our newest column, Along the Way, debuted one year ago this month. Along the Way features articles by and for [...]
The Young Clergy Women Project Conference 2013: July 22-25, 2013 in Nashville Advent Checklist: Find families to light the advent wreath Clean Christmas vestments Book a manicure SAVE THE DATE FOR THE 2013 TYCWP CONFERENCE Not too long after our exciting 2012 TYCWP Conference with MaryAnn McKibben Dana, your conference team started planning our 6th [...]
“When you get to the heart of it, we were looking for a way to cheat time.” My attention was grabbed with the opening words of MaryAnn McKibben Dana’s debut book, Sabbath In the Suburbs: A Family’s Experiment with Holy Time. This book chronicles a year in the life of a suburban family as they [...]
Editor’s note: In celebration of our book partnership with Chalice Press, we are giving away a book from one of our YCW authors! Please consider buying, reading, or even writing a book for TYCWP’s imprint with Chalice Press. In a Q&A for the Patheos Book Club, I was asked if I wrote Any Day a [...]
For one day a week, we would let the laundry sit in the basket, let the leaves languish on the lawn, let the bills sit unpaid on the desk. For one day a week, we would take a day of rest that, we hoped, would help put the remainder of the week in better perspective. [...]
In a preaching class, I was once told that a number of historic pulpits have a verse from John 12 carved into them: “Sir, we would see Jesus.” This was meant as a reminder that, when you’re the preacher, it’s not about you. It’s about Jesus. While I mostly agree with that idea, I also hold [...]