The Young Clergy Women Project
A network of the youngest ordained clergy women.
It has been just over two weeks since we all heard the terrible news of explosions in Boston. In a timeline that seems too familiar these days, a few panicked reports of an explosion, then two, near the finish line of the Boston Marathon bloomed across the internet and television news channels into cellphone video [...]
One of the most indelible memories Sesame Street has left in my mind is that of the letter and number of the day. I loved, “Today’s episode is brought to you by the letter Q and the number 12.” As a child I always longed for the day the episode would be brought to you [...]
“Washington is the problem and no good can come from politics.” As someone whose career is in political issue advocacy, this is a sentiment I hear with some frequency. In many ways the greatest obstruction we face in our national politics isn’t a party, or a philosophy, or even apathy, but our own overwhelming sense [...]
It’s not every day you get to read a seminal, formative work in a still-emerging field of theology. But that is exactly what Making Paper Cranes: Toward an Asian American Feminist Theology by Mihee Kim-Kort is. If you ever find yourself agreeing with the writer of Ecclesiastes, “There is nothing new under the sun,” pick [...]
Sitting down on a recent Sunday evening with Downton Abbey on in the background, I carefully sew the Anglican Communion’s Compass Rose and the Episcopal Shield onto my new tippet[i]. This seemingly simple task does not begin to capture the last decade of my life and the journey I have been on. As a cradle [...]
My husband was running just a few minutes late, the church rummage sale having exhausted all the spaces in the parking lot. My office is just down the hall from our older daughter’s preschool classroom, so when I noted that it was time for pick-up, I quickly saved my document and stepped out to get [...]
A few weeks ago, I sat in a room with church members for our church’s Theology on Draft small group. Our setting in Washington, DC encouraged that this round of study be focused on religion and politics and what might be a responsible, Christian response within the teeming mess that is the presidential election as [...]
We’ve all seen it. We’ve all groaned, or objected full-throatedly, or taken to our blogs to protest. Pat Robertson did it in 2005, the Rabbinical Alliance of America did it in 2010, and the mayor of Tokyo did it in 2011. The members of the Westboro Baptist Church do it so often it doesn’t even [...]
“Have you seen it? It’s gigantic! And who’s that golden guy on the steeple?” “I think that’s the man they worship. I’m not sure how I feel about them being in the area…” With every brick, every coat of paint, every pane of glass placed into the new LDS temple, these conversations grew more insistent, [...]
I was wearing a hospital gown and trying to ignore the stirrups I would soon be placing my feet into when I found out about the Supreme Court’s health care decision. I found out about it by text (3 texts, actually) before I heard about it through the news. My boss (the head of a [...]