Ask a Young Clergy Woman: Holiday Drama Edition
Dear Askie, My daughter is a Pastor and I am so upset that she won’t come home for Christmas. We had wonderful family Christmases but now she’s always missing. She […]
Ask a Young Clergy Woman: Attitude of Gratitude Edition
Dear Askie, I know that gratitude is a good thing and that there are so many blessings in my life… I have enough to eat, work I feel called to, […]
Ask a Young Clergy Woman: Solo-to-Senior Edition
Dear Askie, Help! After serving for years as a solo pastor, I’ve been called to a senior pastorate, at a church with an associate pastor (she is, as it happens, […]
Ask a Young Clergy Woman: Toxic Church Edition
Dear Askie, I am currently serving in a church that is best described as toxic. The staff is dysfunctional, the personnel committee seems to be disinterested in creating a work […]
Ask a Young Clergy Woman: Youth Ministry Edition
Dear Askie, I’m a recent seminary graduate, and still looking for my first call. I know I want to serve as an assistant minster for a few years, but the […]
Ask a Young Clergy Woman: Grace and Goodbyes Edition
Dear Askie, I have been serving in my current call for almost five years. This was my first church out of seminary, and I have grown so much in this […]
Ask a Young Clergy Woman: Burnout Edition
Dear Askie: Do you ever have days when you just don’t feel like you can do it any more? Called but Overwhelmed Dear Called- Yes. Often. And every time I’m […]
Ask a YCW- Boundaries Edition
Dear Askie- I can’t be the only YCW who sometimes receives inappropriate romantic attention. How do I handle parishioners who have crushes on me? And what do I do when […]
Ask a Young Clergy Woman: Non-anxious Presence Edition
Dear Askie, What does a calm, non-anxious presence actually look like in practice? Specifically, what does it look like at contentious meetings where people criticize decisions you’ve made as a […]
Ask a Young Clergy Woman: Striving for the Tithe
Dear Askie, My church was able to give me a very small cost of living raise this year, after many years of absolutely no raise. (The congregation knows what my […]
